It came from beneath the scanner lens

Or perhaps the giant 5-armed octopus from "It came from beneath the sea"? That turned up in the US, so that's much nearer to me in Germany than Japan.Should be easier to lure it over......

I think what we need is a large newspaper, say, roughly the size of a football field, into which we've put several tons of lettuce inside, roll it up all loosely, and set it behind some trees or forest or something.

If left overnight, we most likely will find the giant beast in the morning, snuggled up inside his new home. At that point we can simply shake it into a city water tower that's had gallons of Dr. Bronner's dumped into it (to break the surface tension), and there it will quickly drown.

Wait - Did anyone think to call Mothra, or Godzilla?

What we've seen speaks for itself. Germany has been taken over, "conquered", if you will, by a giant race of Earwigs. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive Germans, or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them, the Earwigs will soon be here.

I, for one, welcome our new earwig overlords.

it's an insect longer than a football field

This monster is in Germany - did you mean an American football field, or a soccer field?

Should we really get that excited about what happens to 'Old Europe'?

Germay? One seventh of the country has apparently been devastated already...

The Germans are f*cked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What we need to do is show the world that this is what the the Flood was back in the days. It is a sign of god`s scorn towards all those non-believers and infidel scum in this world.

Oh and since it is over germany, it may just as equally serve as some ominous sign of a hitler ressurection or whatever view favorable to each cult respectively.

I mean just look at the scale in the picture, this creature is obviously humongous and it also disproves evolution since no creature could suddenly become that big based merely on evolutionary principles.

God put it there. period!

Stingray leaps into boat, stabs man in chest

This did not happen in Germany.

Well, I'm sure Nessie or one of those scandinavian lake monsters will eat it.

Evidently Google Maps needs more debugging.

There is a large selection of monsters to choose from on Monster Island (actually a penninsula). I suggest Spiga (Spider) or one of the Kamacuras (Praying Mantis).

So, does this mean that square-cubed law thing is bunk?

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords

(hey, someone had to say it)

And if I hadn't been rushing through this, I would have noticed that someone DID say it

(slinks off into well deserved obscurity)

Germay? One seventh of the country has apparently been devastated already...

I think what he's trying to say is that the N is nigh.

Stingray leaps into boat, stabs man in chest

This did not happen in Germany.

What I'm wondering is, why didn't it happen in Australia? Hey, you Stingrays, it was the Ozzies who tried to avenge Steve Irwin! Leave America out of your gang war!

Since this thing was apparently spotted near my hometown I alerted my family who was blissfully ignorant of the pending doom. But I am sure that the Bavarian homeland security boys have donned their finest lederhosen and are already in hot pursuit.
But seriosuly, why can't we get some crawfish that size rather than having to put up with those itty bitty little tails.

They already invented giant crawfish. They were brought here by teenage aliens (make sure to look at the second screenshot).

See? This is what happens when you don't join the Coalition of the Willing!

This monster is in Germany - did you mean an American football field, or a soccer field?

They are roughly the same length.

And when the folks at Google Maps headquarters heard about it, they said, "That's not a bug, that's a feature!".

Cathy in Seattle - LOL! Sounds like you have some experience with slugs.

And when the folks at Google Maps headquarters heard about it, they said, "That's not a bug, that's a feature!".

They're just testing Google Earth Invasion: Beta.

Well, it's obvious that the anwer to your problem here has to be Gamera. And what could be cooler than a fifty meter tall flying turtle?

Of course this would never happen in India.

The Garuda Bird would eat it.

I say we take off and nuke it from space. It's the only way to be sure.

Hail Earwigs!

That insect is not an earwig (too small and has no pincer-like cerci) and is pretty likely a thrips- a tiny bug most of you have never seen up close. FWIW, they have about 4 times as much DNA per cell as does Drosophila.

Perhaps we should mount gun turrets on some of Western Australia's flying cars and send them over for battle.

Dr. Bronner's works on monsters? It doesn't say that on the label. Perhaps there wasn't room, but one would think that such an important and potentially life-saving application would have been included.

and is pretty likely a thrips- a tiny bug most of you have never seen up close.

You've got a point there - I have no intention of getting too close to a giant insect.

I just looked at the thrips in my collection, because I was curious. I think it is probably a thrips. Can't tell what family though, because the last abdominal segment is squished.

It's part of their newest high speed organic computer that will direct you from any starting point to a destination. It's called a thrips planner.

Thysanoptera, apparently.

Let me go out on a limb and be the first to welcome our new thrips overlords.

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