Why wouldn't bigfoot hunt humans?

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Isn't that the Ostman/Harry story, Drew? Big daddy bigfoot eats the snuff and then goes nuts which allows our hero the opportunity to escape?
 
Why wouldn't bigfoot hunt humans?

I think the general case is, why would any large omnivore show no sign of existing, other than unsupported claims to have been sighted?
 
dmaker said:
Bigfoot eating people is a popular theme with some enthusiasts. There is even a pinned thread at the BFF discussing how bigfoot beheads people.

I suspect this ups the campfire story chill factor of the BLAARG.
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Mock if you must, but they're hip to what's really going on... Predatorfoot. He's in the woods with a few days to kill.
 
captain koolaid said:
Mock if you must, but they're hip to what's really going on... Predatorfoot. He's in the woods with a few days to kill.
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They were played by the same person in the movies.

//For the record the now sadly passed away Kevin Peter Hall, a 7 foot 3 inch tall actor, played the titular character in the first two stand alone Predator films and "Harry" the Bigfoot in the film Harry and the Hendersons, as well as several other "Big Guy In A Monster Suit" style roles.//
 
MikeG said:
Why wouldn't they? Well, for the sake of the thread (only) let's assume they exist. They might not kill humans because past experience has taught them that attacking humans means they wind up dead. Or they might not attack humans because they too are god's creatures and recognise another created in the image of god and possessing an eternal soul (I feel sick writing that crap). Or they might not attack humans because our flesh isn't tasty. Or they might not attack humans because they are human too. Or they might not attack humans because they are kind, gentle vegetarians who would rather help a lost or injured human than kill them.
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To pretend to be serious, most predators that otherwise could don't seem to go after humans a lot. Even cases of lions going after humans seem mostly to happen with a lion who has been separated from the social group and has some sort of disease. Maybe we don't look appetizing. Even sharks would really rather eat fish than chow down on a coed.

Except for komodo dragons. And pigs. If you fall over near a pig, the pig will eat you, but you have to fall over first.
 
If Bigfoot hunted humans, then for sure Bigfoot would have been cataloged by now. Humans do not like to live near dangerous animals.
 
LTC8K6 said:
Bigfoot reportedly hunts large mammals, up to the size of bears.

What is keeping bigfoot from picking off humans such as solitary hikers? Or stealing the occasional child who gets away from a family of campers?

It would be such an easy meal for a creature that is much larger, stronger, faster than humans, and apparently nearly undetectable by humans.

Also apparently nearly unkillable, even with our smoke poles.

They are clearly not afraid to sneak up close to humans, even groups of humans.

So what has kept bigfoot from eating this other weak mammal?
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Because the only bonafide bigfoot we can verify were people in bigfoot suits?
 
Drewbot said:
If Bigfoot hunted humans, then for sure Bigfoot would have been cataloged by now. Humans do not like to live near dangerous animals.
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Humans tended to exterminate any dangerous animals they ran across...

And they would have considered bigfoot a dangerous animal.

Also, if bigfoot were intelligent but not dangerous, then they would have had them as pets, or as cheap labor. :)

One way or another, if humans and bigfoot had encountered each other in the past, we would know about it.
 
epepke said:
To pretend to be serious, most predators that otherwise could don't seem to go after humans a lot. Even cases of lions going after humans seem mostly to happen with a lion who has been separated from the social group and has some sort of disease. Maybe we don't look appetizing. Even sharks would really rather eat fish than chow down on a coed.

Except for komodo dragons. And pigs. If you fall over near a pig, the pig will eat you, but you have to fall over first.
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We're not kosher.
 
This reminds me of the Northern Exposure episode where the one resident was digging frozen mammoth out of the glacier and putting it on the table...

Gives a whole new twist to "bush meat".
 
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