Hunter Fooled by Ostrich Egg Prank

by Slashfood Editor, Posted Dec 2nd 2009 @ 3:00PM

An ostrich egg. Photo: somenoise, Flickr

The yoke's on you! A West Virginia hunter baffled by a giant egg he found the woods last week was the victim of a rotten practical joke.

Sherman Farley found the 4.5-pound egg while hunting last week, the Charleston Daily Mail reports. Another hunter came forward to ID the egg as ostrich after a newspaper feature about the find.

"I put it there for my brother, or whoever, to find while hunting," Herbert Herold told the paper. "I was just being ornery. I'm always doing stuff like that."

Herold said a farmer gave him two ostrich eggs and the one Farley found was rotten, so he left it in the crook of a tree.

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[Via Charleston Daily Mail]

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