Rules.
Best camera phone $$ can by the hundreds of thousands all over the planet and not one good image of a Squatch? (or ET for that matter).
The Patterson/Gimlin film has been exhaustively analyzed, and is pretty convincing to many.
But they were prepared. The one time I saw something very strange, there was a camera a few feet from me, and I didn’t even think of it. When your mind is shocked by something that doesn’t make any sense, taking a picture doesn’t always come to mind in time.