"We are looking more closely - poor guy has no legs or head."
April 16, 2021 6:02 AM Subscribe
Mystery tree beast turns out to be croissant. BBC News has the story from the Krakow Animal Welfare Society: "People aren't opening their windows because they're afraid it will go into their house," the woman reportedly said.
Also picked up by The Independent (CW: animal neglect and abandonment):
He described how they approached the creature. “Suddenly... Here he is, got him! The brown creature is sitting on a lilac branch … the creature sits and doesn’t move – exactly as the notifier described us.
Also picked up by The Independent (CW: animal neglect and abandonment):
He described how they approached the creature. “Suddenly... Here he is, got him! The brown creature is sitting on a lilac branch … the creature sits and doesn’t move – exactly as the notifier described us.
A friend asked "Are they sure it's not a bear claw?”
posted by k3ninho at 6:22 AM on April 16, 2021 [15 favorites]
posted by k3ninho at 6:22 AM on April 16, 2021 [15 favorites]
This feels like a spiritual cousin to one of my favourite headlines from 2014: 'Injured parrot' in Aberdeen was actually a Christmas hat.
posted by terretu at 6:23 AM on April 16, 2021 [12 favorites]
posted by terretu at 6:23 AM on April 16, 2021 [12 favorites]
I might have suggested an insect's nest, because we get Lymantria dispar dispar (a.k.a. Racist-slur moths) -- those gross bugs that make gauzy nests on every tree & shrub --but...an iguana? Do these people not have Internet access?
posted by wenestvedt at 6:34 AM on April 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by wenestvedt at 6:34 AM on April 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
What a strange, rogue-like creature.
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 6:42 AM on April 16, 2021
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 6:42 AM on April 16, 2021
I feel like a croissant in one of my trees here in Texas would have been consumed long before they could get there. By any variety of city creatures.
posted by double bubble at 7:02 AM on April 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by double bubble at 7:02 AM on April 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
This is the kind of fantastic internet post that you used to see on Metafilter by the dozen, every single day. It makes me wonder: are people just not throwing croissants in trees like they used to, or have we just ceased to care?
posted by rikschell at 7:02 AM on April 16, 2021 [31 favorites]
posted by rikschell at 7:02 AM on April 16, 2021 [31 favorites]
jokes on you when newest evolution of chameleon eats your jambon
posted by lalochezia at 7:05 AM on April 16, 2021 [7 favorites]
posted by lalochezia at 7:05 AM on April 16, 2021 [7 favorites]
a lilac branch
See, that’s why they were confused. Usually you only find baked goods in a pace tree.
posted by zamboni at 7:10 AM on April 16, 2021 [19 favorites]
See, that’s why they were confused. Usually you only find baked goods in a pace tree.
posted by zamboni at 7:10 AM on April 16, 2021 [19 favorites]
At least it was in a tree and not a pool...
posted by Nanukthedog at 7:56 AM on April 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by Nanukthedog at 7:56 AM on April 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
The Marie Kondo diet: throw your baked goods out the window if they spark joy.
posted by scratch at 8:02 AM on April 16, 2021 [5 favorites]
posted by scratch at 8:02 AM on April 16, 2021 [5 favorites]
I just realized this is the bulk of Witcher contracts innit....
posted by cendawanita at 8:49 AM on April 16, 2021 [3 favorites]
posted by cendawanita at 8:49 AM on April 16, 2021 [3 favorites]
They are really threatening if you don't do something about them-
posted by firstdaffodils at 9:05 AM on April 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by firstdaffodils at 9:05 AM on April 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
I just realized this is the bulk of Witcher contracts innit....
"Toss a kouign to your Witcher..."
posted by pykrete jungle at 10:21 AM on April 16, 2021 [5 favorites]
When I was very young my mom went downstairs to do some laundry and frantically ran back up the steps. She called my dad in quite a panic because there was a salamander on the washing machine. He ran home at lunch to save the day by scooting a harmless little visitor back outside. The deadly beast was - an old banana peel. She still hears about it 40 years later.
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 11:20 AM on April 16, 2021 [8 favorites]
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 11:20 AM on April 16, 2021 [8 favorites]
To really sell the story I would have preferred the Getty Image to have been a stock image of a croissant in a tree. There must be loads of them.
posted by urbanwhaleshark at 11:33 AM on April 16, 2021 [7 favorites]
posted by urbanwhaleshark at 11:33 AM on April 16, 2021 [7 favorites]
Just because the beast left a croissant behind, that doesn’t mean there was no beast. It means the beast was cunning (and possibly civilised)
posted by Phanx at 11:35 AM on April 16, 2021 [9 favorites]
posted by Phanx at 11:35 AM on April 16, 2021 [9 favorites]
Or its digestive tract is so evolved that it ate and then shat out a whole horn-shaped pastry undamaged from its bowels as a warning to its foes, of which there are clearly none.
posted by urbanwhaleshark at 11:45 AM on April 16, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by urbanwhaleshark at 11:45 AM on April 16, 2021 [2 favorites]
But Can I eat it?
posted by calgirl at 1:56 PM on April 16, 2021 [10 favorites]
posted by calgirl at 1:56 PM on April 16, 2021 [10 favorites]
the kind of fantastic internet post that you used to see on Metafilter by the dozen, every single day.
Seemed like a lot of bus plunges, though.
posted by ctmf at 6:29 PM on April 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
Seemed like a lot of bus plunges, though.
posted by ctmf at 6:29 PM on April 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
Just because the beast left a croissant behind, that doesn’t mean there was no beast. It means the beast was cunning (and possibly civilised)
I think we can rule out the Cookie Monster.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 11:30 PM on April 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
I think we can rule out the Cookie Monster.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 11:30 PM on April 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
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