Why, it's the Yellow Rose of Texas of course.

June 10, 2022 5:47 PM

Citizen Scientists! Help Amarillo, Texas identify this oddly-clothed resident frightening cryptocreature... before it starts to realize that there are plenty of cattle around the area to suck the blood out of and it doesn't need their zoo. (Or, that the 7-11 is actually open all night).
posted by not_on_display (14 comments total)

Is it a person with a strange hat who likes to walk at night? A chupacabra? Do you have any ideas of what this UAO- Unidentified Amarillo Object could be?

You're the zoo, what does the fox say?
posted by ActingTheGoat at 6:13 PM on June 10, 2022 [1 favorite]

Alice Cooper in a cat suit with a spatula.
posted by clavdivs at 6:25 PM on June 10, 2022 [7 favorites]

Someone in the gizmodo thread said that some furry fursuits were stolen in Amarillo recently (apparently 5 months ago) pictures of the fursuits . They kind of look similar and this seems like something a drunken criminal would do with a fursuit for fun.
posted by The_Vegetables at 6:29 PM on June 10, 2022 [7 favorites]

I dunno if it's because I've spent too much time on the internet but my first thought when I saw the pics was "that's gotta be a furry, right?", even before I heard about the stolen fursuits.
posted by mhum at 6:38 PM on June 10, 2022 [3 favorites]

I go out walkin' after midnight
Out in the moonlight
Just like we used to do
I'm always walkin'
After midnight
Swingin' by the zoo...
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 6:44 PM on June 10, 2022 [10 favorites]

Reminds me of a surveillance picture from somewhere in South America, I think, that showed a terrifying little alien or goblin creature walking the street. Upon expert examination, it turned out to be a cat’s butt
posted by Countess Elena at 8:20 PM on June 10, 2022 [8 favorites]

Jake Angeli got loose again.
posted by symbioid at 8:21 PM on June 10, 2022

Chupacabra.

Disappointed MeFi didn't figure this out immediately.

Dissappointed it took days to hit the Blue.

Please turn in your badges as you button. Refunds will be on a per user basis.
posted by a non mouse, a cow herd at 8:40 PM on June 10, 2022 [3 favorites]

Upon expert examination, it turned out to be a cat’s butt

There was also the time where a dangerous beast turned out to be a croissant.
posted by Pyrogenesis at 9:50 PM on June 10, 2022 [3 favorites]

Upon expert examination, it turned out to be a cat’s butt

Why does this make me so happy?

But I also can't help thinking that an autonomous and, apparently, mobile cat butt seems legitimately horrifying. Especially if it was nocturnal.
posted by Zumbador at 11:22 PM on June 10, 2022 [3 favorites]

Metafilter: Upon closer examination....
posted by Paul Slade at 11:36 PM on June 10, 2022

I used to make jokes about furries but essentially they're people having fun and my attempts to be funny came from a place of jealousy. This has that smell: it's not an alien or an escapee from the zoo, it's a mean joke about a subculture they're not part of.
posted by k3ninho at 4:25 AM on June 11, 2022 [1 favorite]

But I also can't help thinking that an autonomous and, apparently, mobile cat butt seems legitimately horrifying.

We have a cat who thinks everyone needs to see her butt all the time. I suppose that’s not quite where you’re at because the cat butt in my case is connected to the rest of the cat, so less body-horror, but waking up to “is that litter stuck to your rear?” stuck in my face at 3am is not my favorite thing about having cats. (Still love our cats but sheesh..)
posted by Alterscape at 5:55 AM on June 11, 2022 [1 favorite]

Oh that's just Gary.

(source: I grew up in Amarillo. It's a weird place.)
posted by joseph_elmhurst at 11:41 PM on June 11, 2022 [2 favorites]