headless midget saint statue (picture)

[coelacanth_M]

this was taken in an abandoned church on an abandoned island that toby and i visited earlier this year. when we walked/crawled in, this beheaded saint francis statue was lying sideways on the altar and there was dried human turds all over the floor. we didn't copy the people before us by also taking shits on the floor but maybe we should have. maybe it's some sort of weird tradition and we broke the tradition.

 

[Danolich]

Is that a tiny person next to her clapping!?

 

[goatschool]

and there was dried human turds all over the floor. we didn't copy the people before us by also taking shits on the floor but maybe we should have.[/QUOTE]

there is a zine i have circa 1991 that contains a story from the writer's childhood, and he swears it's true. in fact i wrote him about it a few times and he still seemed to be flustered by the whole event.

i would have to retype it all for it to have a good effect, but basically it tells about the day when he and his friends witnessed a sort of savage, or, as he preferred to say, something resembling [i]bigfoot[/i], making its dwelling in an old, abandoned house in his area (rural PA).

the precursor to his encounter was snooping around the place and finding piles of excrement on the ground floor.

so what i'm trying to say is... are you guys sure those were [i]human[/i] turds?

 

[goatschool]

but anyhow cool stuff--what's the background story behind this pic?

 

[lizard]

so what i'm trying to say is... are you guys sure those were human turds?

yes, because raccoons leave some damn big ones....but what if they're scat from something far more sinister???!?!?!

 

[coelacanth_M]

there is a zine i have circa 1991 that contains a story from the writer's childhood, and he swears it's true. in fact i wrote him about it a few times and he still seemed to be flustered by the whole event.

i would have to retype it all for it to have a good effect, but basically it tells about the day when he and his friends witnessed a sort of savage, or, as he preferred to say, something resembling bigfoot, making its dwelling in an old, abandoned house in his area (rural PA).

the precursor to his encounter was snooping around the place and finding piles of excrement on the ground floor.

so what i'm trying to say is... are you guys sure those were human turds?

i always imagine bigfoot turds to be well, really big, you know? and these were human-sized. but then again, maybe turd size isn't a real indication of creature size because not to be too graphic, but on occasion i lay appallingly large turds for my small size. and conversely, sometimes i just get those tiny, cute aerial turds that float in the toilet and are difficult to flush due to all that buoyancy.

so my final answer: yes, it could be otherworldly and/or cryptid poop. i never gave that thought before. maybe another trip is warranted for investigation.

 

[coelacanth_M]

but anyhow cool stuff--what's the background story behind this pic?

toby's roommate, matt, was telling us about paddock's island in boston harbor, which is this historical island, now a state park. it's part of a cluster of islands in the area and you can take a ferry between all the islands for one admission price for the entire day. anyway, matt told us that the entire island was pretty much abandoned except for a few weirdos and/or winos that lived in some cabin-like houses. he said it was like walking through the videogame zelda, so we had to go.

we spent the day climbing in and out of all these really old buildings and churches and houses and taking pictures. we tried to open this mysterious looking tiny building that sort of looked like it contained human bones or at least, something really ominous/creepy, but we were too weak to pry the screwed-on plywood off the opening, haha.

anyway, the church was the first building that we entered and in my opinion, the best building on the island. of course, we could have missed something better... i'm sure there's tons of stuff we missed on that island, which is also another reason to go back in addition to re-checking out that church floor feces.

 

[coelacanth_M]

yes, because raccoons leave some damn big ones....but what if they're scat from something far more sinister???!?!?!

wait, how big exactly are they?!
i've never even thought about the elasticity of raccoons' buttholes until now.

 

[lizard]

see, I used to work in a building that was about two hundred yards long, and the 2nd floor had a huge balcony that ran the entire length of the building. people used to use the balcony to barbeque and such...anyway, I used to use the balcony as a pathway when I had to run paperwork down to Command Group or Legal, and I'd occasionally see really large turds, and I always assumed they were German Shepherd turds, from the military police security patrols, but someone clued me in that raccoons, which can get really fucking big, would patrol the balcony looking for food scraps from barbeques and take dumps up there. And it made sense because the MPs wouldn't let their dogs shit on the balcony.

 

[xfer]

wait...raccoons SHIT??

 

[coelacanth_M]

this is raccoon shit:

those do look surprisingly big. i also expected raccoon turds to be more flakey and dry, sort of like rabbit or deer turds.

 

[lizard]

well these were giant bull raccoons (sorry I don't know what big stud raccoons are usually called) and they were used to dining on human food that was thrown away on the Post...plus, you never, ever want to get between a mother raccoon and her babies/kits/pups/whelps.