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Apparently, there might be some sort of critter swimming around in the Thames River:


http://www.businessinsider.com/video-of-mysterious-creature-swimming-in-the-thames-2016-4



Personally, I thinks it's either a small whale, shark, or (as one young lady on Twitter seems to think) David Cameron trying to sneak out of Britain by sub.


What does Dakka tthink?

Wouldn't be the first time a whale or dolphin got lost and swam up the Thames.

Possibly the lost animal is high on the pollution.

Actually the Thames is a lot cleaner than it used to be, and fish have returned but its still a river through a major city and there is a limit to how clean it can get.

Probably a famous London rat. Looks about the right size for an adolescent one.

Dont exagerrate, that was at least two rats, possibly even as many as four.

I found a clearer picture of it

It's 2016 and all we have is one shaky video?

I'm going with "giant sea monster, possibly of alien nature".

Nessie's trip to London?

Or its just some floating rubbish.

Or the more logical answer that its a group of gun smugglers into the country under the radar.

sirlynchmob wrote:
I found a clearer picture of it

A fifty foot monster can't swim up the Thames and attack a large building without some people noticing, but you know what politicians are like.

I'm guessing Charles doing a spot of bog snorkling.

Drug Runners!

North Korean sub on a cheeky recon mission?

It's only cheeky if they get a Nandos on the way back.

It wouldn't surprise me if it was a big turd trying to swim its way back up river to its spawning grounds.

You know our royal family are secretly lizard people from outer space?

Sometimes they must return to their ancestral spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea.

Be cool if it was some kind of big creature but life is not that interesting................

 Kilkrazy wrote:
You know our royal family are secretly lizard people from outer space?

Sometimes they must return to their ancestral spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea.

I heard they were werewolves.

sirlynchmob wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
You know our royal family are secretly lizard people from outer space?

Sometimes they must return to their ancestral spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea.

I heard they were werewolves.

That too. Space lizards that caught lycanthropy.
Keeping in disguise is tough around that time of the month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia_in_European_royalty

UKer's

I was on Loch Ness last week (Look up George Edwards, he does great tours out from Drumnadrochit and sounds like Sean Connery). Didn't see the beastie on this occasion, now we know where it's gone.


Probably a whale though

Hoping its Gozilla

 Hanskrampf wrote:
It's 2016 and all we have is one shaky video?

I'm going with "giant sea monster, possibly of alien nature".

Nah, it's just the evolution of terrible GW leak pics.

New Tyranid model = confirmed

Das Boot finally reaches its target after some minor technical difficulties

Nessie has been found, so I think we can now safely assume that this was indeed Nessie on a city break:
https://www.rt.com/uk/339467-loch-ness-monster-sherlock/

It can apparently stay perfectly still for long periods of time in order to fool people into thinking it is a movie prop. Clever beastie...