When Monsters Attack (or die and wash ashore)

For some reason there seems to be a host of monster sightings this year... from Montauk to Martha's Vineyard... and now Russia.

From Gawker.com:

In an effort to ramp up competition with the United States, Russia has produced its own version of the feared and revered Montauk Monster. It's the Moscow Monster! Its carcass washed ashore on the Eastern coast of the Motherland, indicating that Sarah Palin likely shot it from hundreds of yards away in Alaska, while nestled in her rooftop hunting blind. Russian scientists have yet to identify the creature. Note that it is a more hideous and distorted version of the kinder, gentler American original....