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If You See a Bigfoot, Should You Shoot Him?
MSNBC ^ | 1/23/2012

Posted on 01/23/2012 9:50:13 PM PST by nickcarraway

In the new Animal Planet reality TV show optimistically titled "Finding Bigfoot," a team of experts examines video of an alleged Sasquatch spotted in the Canadian Rockies. The video, shot by a man named Todd Standing, shows something large and dark, standing atop a wooded ridge and then ducking back behind a bush. It could pretty much be anything, and when the experts concluded that the subject was probably not a Bigfoot, Standing expressed his frustration: "No video is ever going to be evidence, ever. It's never going to be good enough…"

Standing, like many Bigfoot researchers, misses the problem: It's not so much that any Bigfoot video is inherently worthless, it's that his video, like all that have come before it, is of such poor quality that there's no way to know what we're seeing. It could have been anything — a guy in a dark jacket (or gorilla costume), a bear or even Bigfoot. The fatal flaw in Bigfoot photos and videos is the image quality, not the image subject. If Standing, the "Finding Bigfoot" team, or anyone else shot well-lit, clear video of what was obviously a 12-foot-tall, hairy bipedal creature in the woods, that would be compelling.

But even the highest-quality photograph or video can't be considered definitive proof of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or any other mythical beast. Similarly, if the goal is to simply make scientists and the general public take Bigfoot seriously, then some verified remains of the creature – be they hair, teeth, blood, bones or something else — would do the trick.

In the new Animal Planet reality TV show optimistically titled "Finding Bigfoot," a team of experts examines video of an alleged Sasquatch spotted in the Canadian Rockies. The video, shot by a man named Todd Standing, shows something

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To: nickcarraway

I once shot and ate a bigfoot. It tasted just like a regular human being.


41 posted on 01/24/2012 12:01:54 AM PST by Apollo5600
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To: Scutter

That’s a Wookie. /nerd


42 posted on 01/24/2012 12:05:03 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)
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To: 21twelve

Bears, come to think of it, probably do a real good job of breaking skeletons up into smaller pieces, and might eat bones too.


43 posted on 01/24/2012 12:05:03 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: unkus; AnTiw1

I once was camping in a tent when a mountain lion or two decided to sing out about fifty feet away. It sounds like an opera singer going through a woodchipper feet first. Scarier than Sasquatch.


44 posted on 01/24/2012 12:45:04 AM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: nickcarraway

Article states that Bigfoot sightings are rare? Really? It seems that dozens (at least) of people have reported seeing one, not to mention footprints, unidentifiable hair, and a skunk-like odor. A man even claimed (anonymously) to have killed and buried (lest he be arrested)one. Art Bell (former night-time radio host who specialized in the paranormal) tried unsuccessfully to get him to lead Bell to the alleged burial site.


45 posted on 01/24/2012 1:49:55 AM PST by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: luvbach1

Forgot to mention the blood-curdling screams in the woods attributed to the big hairy one.


46 posted on 01/24/2012 1:51:19 AM PST by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Bones don’t last long in the wild. Kill a deer and come back in six months and you will see what I mean. I agree much mor research needs to be done.


47 posted on 01/24/2012 1:58:03 AM PST by BigCinBigD
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To: nickcarraway

I, too, live in the Pacific Northwest and have been told the following by Indians living in the areas around Grays Bay and Mt.Olympus.

Sasquatch will rape human women, and Indidan women are very cautious about going out into wilderness by themselves. Women who become pregnant after being raped by Sasquatch have babies which do not live very long after birth.

Again, I don’t know whether this is true or not, but this is what I’ve been told.


48 posted on 01/24/2012 2:02:12 AM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: SatinDoll
Who happens to be walking through a forest with a rifle expecting to find some giant 600 pound thing to shoot at?

I don't believe in Bigfoot, but I did see while in an Alaskan cruise how vast and dense that area is.
There could be things never discovered living in there. I doubt it would be a Bigfoot though.

49 posted on 01/24/2012 2:12:55 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: nickcarraway

Shoot him or her, then try bar b queing parts, frying other parts same as you’d do a manatee.


50 posted on 01/24/2012 3:43:27 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: nickcarraway

National Undiscovered Species Protection Act

http://fob.l7space.com/nuspa.php


51 posted on 01/24/2012 4:11:35 AM PST by panaxanax (0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
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To: MistrX

It didnt happen, then.


52 posted on 01/24/2012 4:45:51 AM PST by Concho (-)
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To: AnTiw1

I know that on a hunting trip in Oregon I heard something unexplainable.
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Most likely the mating call of Unicornia oregonius.


53 posted on 01/24/2012 4:52:35 AM PST by panaxanax (0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
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To: nickcarraway

12 foot tall? Now the woods will be full of NBA agents.


54 posted on 01/24/2012 6:16:29 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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12 foot tall? Now the woods will be full of NBA agents.

Don't worry. They won't be able to find one either.
55 posted on 01/24/2012 6:20:29 AM PST by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: nickcarraway

“Something large and dark.....ducking back behind a bush” - can’t a guy pee with a little privacy?


56 posted on 01/24/2012 6:20:53 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ReneeLynn

Yes, but what’s a wookie - little more than a Sasquatch with a bowcaster.


57 posted on 01/24/2012 7:17:37 AM PST by Scutter
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To: nickcarraway

Invite him to play football

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwj9VEU7YJQ


58 posted on 01/24/2012 7:31:35 AM PST by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: ccmay

I heard a mountain lion when I was a kid. It was night and like you say, scary.


59 posted on 01/24/2012 8:22:56 AM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: onedoug
Fossils by definition are not recent and they are not very common. Very few creatures comparatively become fossilized. The larger they are the less likely they are to become fossils.

How long ago they were is kind of tough to tell, we date the fossils by the strata we find them in but we date the strata by the fossils we find in that strata. Which means that any of the fossils found would be assumed to be a certain age because "everybody know" that they died out millions of years ago. See "coelacanth" for an example.

In any case that something like that existed and that there are creatures that have survived mostly unchanged from that era means that it is possible.

60 posted on 01/24/2012 2:05:34 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (In the good times praise His name, In the bad times do the same, In everything give thanks)
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