Well, that tortoise isn't making much progress, and it would leave foot prints that wouldn't blow away. Maybe Dumbo was carrying the tortoise? upside down? as a prank? good one Dumbo!
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I'm telling you guys Jesus is the answer.
Ask anyone :)
my only other answer would be some kind of a animal.
I think it's number 1 tho
It was a Dumbo, Tortoise, Jesus monster. With a sawed off shotgun. On fire. IN SPACE.
lol.
Here's some of my handy detective work:
The snow piled to the sides of the trail means something was dragged or pushed through the snow. If a freak on a unicycle decided to go for a late-night ride, the track would be clean cut on the edges due to the snow simply being compressed. There would also be snow on the bottom of the track, instead of being mostly scraped aside.
The fact that the snow was bunching up in front of dragged item clears possible suspect #1: the wind. If the wind could move something that heavy, there would be no track as it would have blown over.
Evidence suggests animals were in the area, so they become suspect #2. Since there are no witnesses to the deed, we can only assume possible scenarios: A cat or small raccoon found something (relatively) delicious. It was unable to carry said meal, and thus dragged it along backwards (over most of its tracks) with its mouth. A dog or other large animal stumbled upon this scene and decided the meal was indeed delicious. It picked it up after scaring off the previous owner, thus ending the trail and leaving the animal tracks (possibly 2 sets). What does all of this prove? ...That I have nothing better to do with my time than to theorize about animals fighting over garbage hundreds if not thousands of miles away. THE END.
How about a plastic bag, full of snow.
I think that's a bit less likely..
The tracks around it seem to hint that, as mDust said, a cat/small 'coon was dragging something along - not sure what happened at the end, maybe it got a better grip with its mouth and carried the small item off? Could've gotten scared off, but that should leave a second set of tracks.
The bendy-corner in the second photo seems to hint at that to me - the odd path could be the result of head movement, with the tracks around it being the path of the animal's body relative to whatever it was dragging.
Or it could have been a ninja-elephant with rabies, I suppose.
Oh god, I lose internet for 2 days, and this happens :D. First, lol. Second, the deductive reasoning this thread is impressive.
A few of these do check out except for the fact that there were no tracks or anything at the end, just a few animal tracks near the beginning. Also I'm fairly sure there was no significant wind that night.
I have my friends here puzzled. One of them actually tried recreating it by walking in a perfectly straight path dragging a thin shovel behind him. It worked ok, but that still didnt explain the beginning and end...
-Indybird
I'm probably a bit sick & twisted but this is the first thing that came to my mind...
Brilliant! We're getting closer to cracking this thing wide open!
My new and improved theory is that it was a cute little mentally-retarded mutant puppy with worms...the snow-covered sidewalk relieved the itch for hundreds of feet before an owl swooped down out of the night sky and snapped its spinal cord with a muffled crunch...no witnesses. It wasn't much of a struggle, and once the owl was satisfied the puppy would never take another breath, they flew off together with a single beat of the owls' 5 foot wingspan. That is what left the 'spray' marks and the absence of tracks at the end.
This should be a movie...