Feb 13 2009Where's The Gold?: The End Of A Rainbow

This is the end of a rainbow as captured by Jason Erdkamp on his iPhone while traveling down Highway 241 in Orange County, California. Are the leprechauns in the back of that SUV?
But Jason, from the Los Angeles suburb of Lake Forest, said: "There was no pot of gold, but I did win $25 that night on a lottery ticket."
What do you mean "no pot of gold?" How the hell is there no gold? Clearly, it's buried. I'm gonna rent a backhoe and uproot that road. I wanna know where the gold at. I want the gold. Give me the gold. I want the gold.
Photographer captures the end of the rainbow on his iPhone - amazing picture [mirror]
Thanks to Richie-Con-Carnie, who drew the amateur sketch.
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Reader Comments
1. softlicious - February 13, 2009 12:15 PM
FIRST!!!!!!!!!!
I stole first, again.
Oh, yeah, and something funny about some thingamabob or something.
2. koOPa - February 13, 2009 12:16 PM
Shits weak!
3. ray - February 13, 2009 12:19 PM
The rainbow is probably coming out of the back of the Escalade which (once again) is probably loaded with gold.
4. softlicious - February 13, 2009 12:21 PM
No, give ME the gold, I feel like I need it more than you. I would buy myself a life and oh yeah some pot, some potery that is for my kitchen, and then I would buy some crack, some crackers that is for my kitchen, and then I would buy some meth, some methamfetamin that is... Oops, I guess I spilled the beans, in my kitchen. Woohoo! Who else thinks I'm funny, or is it the fumes talking. The pot I have is not gold.
5. Watch - February 13, 2009 12:21 PM
cool
6. adfas - February 13, 2009 12:21 PM
Wrong end of the rainbow sorry
7. kk - February 13, 2009 12:22 PM
oviously this is not the end, is the beginning of the rainbow.
8. Daisy - February 13, 2009 12:22 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max robbed a convenience store and took off north up the old train bed towards Canada on his moped.
9. Hunter - February 13, 2009 12:27 PM
This makes me want Lucky Charms so bad!
10. Watch - February 13, 2009 12:29 PM
REAL!!!!
This was not photoshopped. you can tell by the lighting in the photo.
This was like the movie Never Back Down where: Never Back Down
(2008)
Jake Tyler is guilt ridden after not stopping his father from driving drunk.
Jake is a star football player who in a fit of rage Punches out an opponent, after the other player makes a comment about his fathers death. The punch is caught on camera and is a hit on a you tube type website.
Jake's mother moves the family to Orlando so his younger brother can attend Tennis school.
Jake is an outsider, until the Video of his football punch is shown around school. Gaining the attentin of Ryan, the most popluar and violent kid in school.
Ryan has his girlfreind Baja invite Jake to the party.
After some small talk Ryan challenges Jake to the "Main Event" Of the party, Jake vs Ryan.
Jake wants no part of this till Ryan eggs him on with taunts about his father.
Ryan beats Jake down, humiliating him in front of the party goers.
Days later Max tells Jake of Rouqa the local Mixed Martial Arts instructor.
Jake wants to join, Rouqa makes him prove himself. After Jake does they begin training. Ryan takes notice of this and tells him they will meet at the Beat Down, a local underground fight club.
Jake doesnt want to fight in the beatdown, since he is finally in control of his anger, and wins the heart of Baja who leaves Ryan for what he did to Jake.
Ryan beats Max so bad that he is in the Hospital. Jake vows revenge. He heads to the beat down.
Half way through the beatdown Ryan is disqualified for an illegal move, Jake is getting ready for his next fight, and asked why Ryan's name is marked off the score screen. Jakes taps out and leaves the beatdown. Ryan follows hin outside. Jake and Ryan get into one final battle, where Jake finally K.O.'s Ryan.
Jake is now happy with Baja, Max is out of the Hospital and Ryan and Jake have a new found respect for each other.
Thanks Sean!
11. softlicious - February 13, 2009 12:31 PM
LONG!
That post was long, because it doesn't have the right shadows'
Never Back Down, Daisy is cool!
12. Watch - February 13, 2009 12:32 PM
Daisy sucks, thats why i posted that spoiler
13. Angel Mass - February 13, 2009 12:37 PM
This myth is busted!
14. bum master - February 13, 2009 12:38 PM
that picture is gay
rainblow flag = gay!
15. Tricky Ricky - February 13, 2009 12:48 PM
Forget the Never back Down...the real question is..Does Daisy put out?
As for the rainbow...funny, I don't think it tastes like skittles...
16. gizmoduck - February 13, 2009 12:56 PM
excuse me?
wtf are you doing?
17. Pew³ - February 13, 2009 1:00 PM
My guy in D.C. tells me that we are not dealing with a student here, we're dealing with the Professor. Any time the military has an operation that can't fail, they call this guy in to train the troops, OK? He's the kind of guy that would drink a gallon of gasoline so he could piss in your campfire! You could drop this guy off at the Arctic Circle wearing a pair of bikini underwear, without his toothbrush, and tomorrow afternoon he's going to show up at your pool side with a million dollar smile and fist full of pesos. This guy's a professional, you got me? If he reaches this rig, we're all gonna be nothing but a big goddamned hole right in the middle of Alaska. So let's go find him and kill him and get rid of the son of a bitch!
18. Kup - February 13, 2009 1:12 PM
dont really think its a rainbow at all, I would guess that it's remnants of those piece of shit satellites that collided in space a day ago raining down from the sky. ...
Quick! Stop your car in the middle of the road, get out, and see if you can find the pieces!!!!
19. GTO--Josh - February 13, 2009 1:17 PM
I thought we would at least see a set of lesbians in the street under that rainbow. but noooooo...
nature has again failed to provide me with lesbionic viewing pleasure
20. Leonidas - February 13, 2009 1:18 PM
17: You might be above the law, but you ain't above mine.
21. Pew³ - February 13, 2009 1:27 PM
@20. I guess it doesn't really matter since I kind of blew up all the evidence.
22. gizmoduck - February 13, 2009 1:28 PM
@17
will you be my ghey valentine?
23. silver - February 13, 2009 1:34 PM
Uhm, GW, I'm pretty sure in your tags you meant "butterflies and zebras and moonBEAMS"...... not moonboon...
24. naas - February 13, 2009 1:35 PM
There's more talk about Daisy in this section than anything else, you guys are obsessed.
I like it though, don't get me wrong. It's just a little funny that you've gone from hating & complaining to mockery & imitation. (I know Watch, you still hate Daisy I know)
Rainbows aren't real btw, it's just a cover so they can sell weed from inside.
25. naas - February 13, 2009 1:40 PM
@17 You're on deadly ground man....
26. I say: "Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing" - February 13, 2009 1:41 PM
I agree with Daisy on this one.
27. E of R - February 13, 2009 1:44 PM
They're always after me lucky charms! Arrrg!
28. Pew³ - February 13, 2009 2:06 PM
@22 of course.
@25. How do you screw up a movie with R Lee Ermey, Micheal Caine, John McGinley, and Billy Bob Thornton in it? Easy. Starring Steven Seagal. On Deadly Ground, AKA the Rainbow Warrior.
29. gizmoduck - February 13, 2009 2:19 PM
@28
:) tee hee
30. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - February 13, 2009 2:48 PM
I have no issue communicating without the use of profanity. Quite frankly, the english language offers much more colorful adjectives. The point being made is simply that in this country, where this blog is hosted, we have freedom of speech. The same freedom of speech that would protect this blogger (GW) in court. I find it rather disingenuous of him to post NSFW content and genitalia jokes, then censor our comments about them.
*Shittles. Taste the asshole.*
31. GTO--Josh - February 13, 2009 3:19 PM
@30
LOL
32. Vero - February 13, 2009 4:28 PM
amazing picture!
ajajaj... i wish be there ajajaj.. in the end to catch the gold xD
33. Al Dracone - February 13, 2009 4:49 PM
Did any of you fine lads get the license plate of that devilish SUV? They be stealing me pot of gold.
34. Shallow Val - February 13, 2009 4:52 PM
@30 XD
I actually have that shirt! I got it from t shirt hell over a year ago! Such a shame that they're going out of business. :(
35. Elmo - February 13, 2009 4:52 PM
MOONBOONS yeah that's what you have to be on if you go looking for the end of a rainbow
36. blp - February 13, 2009 7:13 PM
OMG! one instance where Daisy was right and it is a photoshop job.
37. K4ot1K - February 14, 2009 7:22 AM
That's the bridge to fairy world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
38. Flameblade - February 14, 2009 2:13 PM
Nice Chrichton Leprechaun reference thar
39. Confused Geek - February 14, 2009 8:36 PM
quick get me a dog and a bowl of milk . . . .
40. lawrence - February 15, 2009 1:38 AM
Beautiful rainbow! But it;s fake from a blog at Billionairepal.com where people are talking about it now!
41. nun - February 15, 2009 6:25 AM
gosh.. not bad
42. B - February 15, 2009 3:37 PM
It never said which end it was gonna be..
43. tn11 - February 15, 2009 4:38 PM
its fake... Rainbows don't ever touch the ground,,, thats why there's the myth that there's gold at the end. its the refraction of light from the water droplets in the air, so if you chase the rainbow, you'll never get to the end,,, it just changes perspectives, and never looks like it touches down. try it w a sprinkler....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow (see culture- religion and mythology, end of first paragraph)
44. tn11 - February 15, 2009 4:42 PM
Excuse me, its not necessarily fake... its just that he will never reach the point where it appears as though it is touching the ground...
45. that guy - February 15, 2009 6:59 PM
it could be a crackhead rainbow, who got hold of the wrong stuff and it told him to go into the ground and play like a mythical rainbow. or its a shadow being cast from the other land...
46. Jesus - February 16, 2009 2:08 AM
You are retards. This photo is bullshit. There is no "end" to a rainbow, it's an optical illusion that depends on the respective location of the observer. Please drink bleach.
47. Lee - February 16, 2009 10:21 AM
Yep, I know the science and that's what I thought.... until I saw the same thing on a motorway a couple of years ago. A rainbow heading straight into the ground moving along a few meters in front of me. I prefered to think of it as some sort of lucky open but I guess #44 is right.... just realised - I saw one today. In a fountain... the rainbow goes straight into the ground. Damn that's my lucky open gone.
48. pirate kuhnbeard - February 16, 2009 1:13 PM
I WANNA KNOW WHERE DA GOLDDD AT.
LOOK LIKE A LEPRECHAUN TO ME! ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS LOOK UP IN DA TREE. ERRYBODY WHO SEEN DA LEPRECHAUN SAY YEAHH!!
49. tn11 - February 16, 2009 1:26 PM
@46 jesus.... you should read comments ahead of you
50. Jesus - February 17, 2009 1:52 AM
NAW
51. Ichiro Ino - February 17, 2009 12:28 PM
no! it's a trap!
52. Hawk - February 17, 2009 1:18 PM
...and so, the Gay and Lesbian community is sadden to learn that their latest gay missile test failed to reach its intended target... The Mormon Church in Salt Lake City!
53. Bones - February 18, 2009 3:56 AM
Maybe the Leprechaun has been captured by the guys in the Escalade, and he is sending a rainbow signal to his cousins (the ones who play in that Z-Horror movies) to kill them !
54. Beastman AIDS - February 18, 2009 4:20 AM
#15
Does Daisy put out? If I was gay too then maybe I'd care.
55. Jedijen - February 18, 2009 8:40 AM
lake forest is a suburb of los angeles?!?! lake forest is in south orange county, for baby jeebus' sake. it's no where NEAR l.a. may as well say lake forest is a suburb of san diego and be just as accurate. stupidheads.
56. SavorySanchezAndTheStinkPinkAllstarz. - February 18, 2009 4:58 PM
Did you even LOOK at the driver.....!!... Was he a TINY IRISH LITTLE BLARNEY.... AHHHHH... You let it slip right through your fingers.... I ran his ass off of the highway and got what was owed.....! Well better luck next time puddin poot.
57. Zirix - February 18, 2009 7:11 PM
That's the beginning. Sorry.
58. Oscar Wilde - February 18, 2009 10:12 PM
LITTLE WING IS FOOKIN GREAT! Plus your ban on cuss words sucks @$$.
59. todders - February 19, 2009 3:10 PM
Yo, is this photo REAL????
Check out this hilarious video about the GIRLS GONE WILD PORNO BAILOUT (beware the guy with the 'stache):
http:/www.digitalfuntown.com/videos/150
60. Lucidus - February 20, 2009 7:56 PM
This is a FAKE. Blow it up a couple hundred times in a photo editor and you will see the very clear crease marks in the picture -- the patterns of pixels don't align --at the SUV roof line and off to the left.
Here is a real set a photos - blow them up and there are no pixel problems...
http://www.missouriskies.org/rainbow/february_rainbow_2006.html
61. Axxo - February 21, 2009 11:46 AM
yeah this can't be real :)
62. ...in America! - February 21, 2009 9:25 PM
#34: Actually, T-Shirt Hell isn't going out of business. It was just their douchebag owner fakeposting to make all the "edgy" retards that shop there buy more. I've laughed at like two of their shirts, most of them are just plain retarded and not funny at all. And the thing is, I can't even tell people that their retarded shirt isn't funny because then they think I'm offended by it. By the epic fail of an attempt to be funny, maybe.
63. Gryet - February 22, 2009 5:18 AM
In case noone wrote this before:
This is fake. It is not possible to be closer to one end of a rainbow than to the other end. You will always be at the same distance to both "ends". A rainbow is a simple reflection in water and light - always orientated with center in front of the wiever - nomatter at what angle the wievers are watching the same rainbow.
And actually, a rainbow is a circle.
64. Moot@4chan.org - February 23, 2009 6:40 AM
>>63 is correct, rainbows are a full circle, this sucks.
65. Hotrodpez - February 24, 2009 1:27 AM
No, no. You all aren't looking close enough. At the end of the rainbow is a Caddy Escalade!
66. dylan - February 24, 2009 5:07 PM
if only the picture taker had been looking out for the amateur sketch, or had his leprechaun flute handy.
i still think it's a crackhead got hold of the wrong stuff!
67. JellyBellyS - February 27, 2009 12:43 AM
who's this Daisy, that you keep talking about & what does the movie, "Never Back Down", have to do with rainbows?
68. gogog - March 17, 2009 5:26 PM
that's so real and this is to the person who said it was fake you are wrong it was probaly the wrong end. p.s. you wason the $25 because you at leased saw one end
69. DJ - April 19, 2009 3:40 AM
i just did some analysis on the photo and it is un tampered. this is a real, rare anomaly that few see.
70. Terra - June 18, 2009 6:52 PM
I have personally seen the end of the rainbow. Its not impossible as long as the ground is wet and reflective. The only problem is you can't catch up with it cause it moves away from you at the same distance and then disappears. Sad.
Btw you can make a rainbow by spraying a damn hose. Just gotta get it in the sun right. You should be ashamed bout gettin in a fight over a rainbow picture