Sasquatch (Bigfoot) Found?

[kleinma]

shocker, but this was exposed as a lie today

http://www.cbs46.com/news/17232407/detail.html

[EntityX]

What people will do for money.

kleinma, the more I thought about what you were saying the less I thought it would be likely that Bigfoot could escape detection for so long. Perhaps there are some Bigfoot possibly(my feeling is 10% chance or less) somewhere in the Pacific Northwest but creatures over 7 feet tall evading detection for so long in the north part of Georgia with the amount of development that is there is really unlikely.

I've never seriously studied what evidence has been given for the existence of Bigfoot. If I did then maybe I'd say the chances of Bigfoot really existing is considerably above 10% but perhaps I would determine that it's closer to 0%.

[kleinma]

I wonder if there will be people calling for they guy to be fired.. I mean if he has no problem lying to the entire country on national news, then how the hell can he possibly stay employed as a police officer??

[Shaggy Hiker]

The article stated that his boss immediately moved to have him fired. Technically, he could be charged with fraud, but it's more likely that he will be charged with being an idiot, a charge that has been amply proven.

[kregg]

The article stated that his boss immediately moved to have him fired. Technically, he could be charged with fraud, but it's more likely that he will be charged with being an idiot, a charge that has been amply proven.

Yes, it's true. He wasn't the brightest bulb of the lot. Whoever left him in charge needs to go hohm and have a good think about what they did.

[KiwiDexter]

The article stated that his boss immediately moved to have him fired. Technically, he could be charged with fraud, but it's more likely that he will be charged with being an idiot, a charge that has been amply proven.

donut consumption = idiot We have our connection.

[Foxer]

I don't understand what these hoax's achieve? Surely they must know they will be found out and as for making money - have they? At best they've got a few days of headlines around the internet before being exposed as lunatics. How does one profit from that?

They've pulled these pranks before so their credibility was already shot so who's going to give them money or pay them for an interview or whatever. I don't get it.

[Lord Orwell]

I don't understand what these hoax's achieve? Surely they must know they will be found out and as for making money - have they? At best they've got a few days of headlines around the internet before being exposed as lunatics. How does one profit from that?

They've pulled these pranks before so their credibility was already shot so who's going to give them money or pay them for an interview or whatever. I don't get it.

that bigfoot hunter site paid them for the corpse

[KiwiDexter]

I don't understand what these hoax's achieve? Surely they must know they will be found out and as for making money - have they? At best they've got a few days of headlines around the internet before being exposed as lunatics. How does one profit from that?

They've pulled these pranks before so their credibility was already shot so who's going to give them money or pay them for an interview or whatever. I don't get it.

Foxer they are simply following Dubya and his Dad's example

[EntityX]

that bigfoot hunter site paid them for the corpse

And the corpse was a Sasquatch suit. They could have bought one themselves for $ 449.

[Foxer]

that bigfoot hunter site paid them for the corpse

I thought the Bigfoot Hunter site was run by this bafoon sheriff and his friend? I also read that they paid two anon ppl money for this body. If so - then the sheriff got ripped off and dumb enough to admit he paid money for a rubber suit. They really aren't clever.

Maybe I got all of that bar the last sentence wrong.

[kregg]

This is the closest thing to Bigfoot I've seen on the internet:

[Lord Orwell]

This is the closest thing to Bigfoot I've seen on the internet:

you have a short memory...

[kleinma]

I thought the Bigfoot Hunter site was run by this bafoon sheriff and his friend? I also read that they paid two anon ppl money for this body. If so - then the sheriff got ripped off and dumb enough to admit he paid money for a rubber suit. They really aren't clever.

Maybe I got all of that bar the last sentence wrong.

the 2 guys who started the scam sold the body to the 3rd guy for 50K (or some figure like that). The 2 guys were a cop currently on leave (because he shot himself with his own gun by accident), and a former corrections officer.

These 2 law enforcement officials lied to the guy who runs the bigfoot site, and got him to pay them, and organize the press conference, and lie to the entire world about it.

The guy is now trying to sue them to get his money back, and apparently these 2 guys are no where to be found. Also, the cop on leave no longer has a job to go back to once he fully recovers.

So I hope they made enough money to ride out the rest of their lives off this stupid scam, since they will probably be working at McDonalds from now on.

[kregg]

I saw Bigfoot!! He's in the Mirror!!!

[Shaggy Hiker]

I saw Bigfool!! He's in the Mirror!!!

Yeah, we know that, but we were talking about BigFOOT!!!

[kregg]

Damnit. Got pwned.

[EntityX]

I've captured Bigfoot with my Samsung Digimax 530.

[Torc]

Please be careful, EntityX.
Posting such images could lead to a Ban.
Or, at the least, induce Nausea and vomiting in guests and members.

[Lord Orwell]

Please be careful, EntityX.
Posting such images could lead to a Ban.
Or, at the least, induce Nausea and vomiting in guests and members.

what do you mean, "could" lead to nausea and vomiting...

[kregg]

You call that a foot?

This is what you call a real foot!!

[Imaged removed by moderators]

[Banned by moderators]

[kleinma]

well at least the reports that bigfoot is totally hairy are not a lie

[Torc]

what do you mean, "could" lead to nausea and vomiting...

My apologies if my sentence construction was confusing.

I meant to say it could lead to a Ban, depending on the mods resilience.

I also meant to say that it would induce nausea and vomiting at the minimum.

[EntityX]

I guess I was treading on the borderline of banned photos but I see that kregg must have crossed that border.

[kleinma]

I guess I was treading on the borderline of banned photos but I see that kregg must have crossed that border.

or he pretended to have crossed the border...

Hey Kregg, you know the penalty for impersonating having your posts edited by a moderator??? Marty gives you negative rep points until the forum hits a negative integer overflow error..

[mendhak]

If only you had said [Edited by modname], then you'd only be dealing with signed integers.

*groan*

[Jenner]

LOL.

Yea, honestly, of the actual Sasquatch evidence out there, the most compelling is from the Canadian north-central and northwest woods. It's where they found the oddball DNA evidence (DNA matching human minus one base-pair) from a Bigfoot sized bloodstain on a screwboard (a board with screws drilled into it left in front of a cabin's door to deter bears from breaking in). You also have the most sightings, reports of hearing the strange sounds at night, and see the most tracks.

Occasionally, you get hits here in the USA, but they're much fewer and farther between.

The region is also monstrous. Know where you get if you set out hiking there for 7 days straight in a single direction? You get 7 days from the nearest road and are still in woods for as far as the eye can see. The region also has enough confirmed vegetation and/or wild-game to support a reasonable, sustained population of 7-foot tall mammals.


Georgia? Yea, there are some reports of Bigfoot in the swamps of Georgia, but I'm more inclined to believe these to be bear or other animals than Sasquatch. Any actual physical evidence from that region is next to non-existent and spotty at best.

Do I believe in Sasquatch in general? Eh... I'm probably on the 35%-for 65%-against bus. I'll listen to the evidence and weight it against everything else but I won't be convinced until something more concrete develops.

[Foxer]

the 2 guys who started the scam sold the body to the 3rd guy for 50K (or some figure like that). The 2 guys were a cop currently on leave (because he shot himself with his own gun by accident), and a former corrections officer.

These 2 law enforcement officials lied to the guy who runs the bigfoot site, and got him to pay them, and organize the press conference, and lie to the entire world about it.

The guy is now trying to sue them to get his money back, and apparently these 2 guys are no where to be found. Also, the cop on leave no longer has a job to go back to once he fully recovers.

So I hope they made enough money to ride out the rest of their lives off this stupid scam, since they will probably be working at McDonalds from now on.

Okay - that makes sense now - thanking you.

I imagine the true amount paid hasn't been revealed but if two guys are going to attempt a scam like this ($25k each) then you'd want a little more cash than that. To say they need psychiatric assessment is an understatement.

[kleinma]

If I had proof that bigfoot existed, I would present it in a way, immediatly, that there is no doubt at all. These guys came out of the gate with smoke and mirrors and you could smell a scam from a mile away.

[Jenner]

Yea. If you had a corpse. You take several dozen pictures. Load it into a truck and haul it over to the nearest university with a zoology and/or anthropology department (in the above case, probably Georgia Tech). Find a professor in the field and tell them you're a tracker and came across a carcass that concerns you, and you have it waiting outside, could he please take a look at it. Don't mention Bigfoot, Sasquatch or anything until after he's staring at the corpse.

Another way would be to call the police, or national park services, though I prefer the professor approach best since it gets the corpse to a scientific authority fastest so that proper storage and containment can be erected and necessary samples immediately taken.

[Lord Orwell]

funny thing is, this is not the first fake bigfoot in a block of ice.

[EntityX]

That's a long article. Lord give us your one paragraph synopsis of the article. Did they melt the block and examine the body inside at any time?

[Lord Orwell]

That's a long article. Lord give us your one paragraph synopsis of the article. Did they melt the block and examine the body inside at any time?

it was a gorilla suit frozen in a block of ice. Only difference was they had supposedly taken hair samples (which dna analysis showed to be dog hair) before freezing it.

It's a common scam.

Other examples exist, and it's always the same setup. Block of ice behind a curtain or in a coffin and you can't see through the ice very well.

[kleinma]

That's a long article. Lord give us your one paragraph synopsis of the article.

People are stupid. The End.