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carlitos said:
You're foolin' yourself, and you can't believe it.

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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No, I'm not "fooling myself". The incident is noteworthy but hardly proof of anything. I fully realize this. Taking notes is something you do when investigating stuff. Some things may relate later, some may not. The important thing is to record anything noteworthy so you can decide later what is related and what is not after more investigation. It's not a dissertation, it's a field note.

Chris B.
 
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3 of the groups I know of have specific areas they research in. I think they watch for fresh sign that the Bigfoot creatures are in their areas. I don't know how often they're in the field though I think fairly regularly this time of year.
The 4th has a very nice website and he does field work but I believe he covers the entire state so I'm unsure whether he has a specific area he looks at regularly or investigates sighting reports as they come in from wherever.

I don't know how many groups per state average. I imagine there are several in the states with high reported Bigfoot activity.

Sighting reports come in during this time of year. I'm off to investigate a sighting that happened locally yesterday as soon as I finish my response to Carlitos below.
Chris B.
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So basically there are dozens of bigfoot research groups all out there not finding bigfoot.
 
A tree falls down in the forest = Bigfoot
Unexplained dredlock in horse mane = Bigfoot
"Where the **** is the oatmeal?!?" = Bigfoot
Projectile Good N Plenty = Bigfoot
"My ear fluttered" = Bigfoot

God I love this topic. What an impressive animal.
 
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It beheads people, then kidnaps them.

Might have that wrong way around though.
 
I can't think of a super power that Bigfoot hasn't been accused of possessing:

Size and strength of the Hulk
Speed of the Flash
Mind Powers of Professor X
Ability to create portals and transport like Nightcrawler
Tony Stark like intelligence and ability to manipulate technology
Hairiness of Wolverine
The ability to flutter in people's ears like the Tick's sidekick moth Arthur
 
Situational Incompetence

What a great term! I don't know if John Nowak coined it, but this seems to be an iron law of BLAARGing. There is no exception to this rule because nobody ever comes away from an encounter with evidence. It is ten thousand Mighty Casey batters up to the plate, and every one struck out.

It is the great irony of proclaiming to be researchers with competence so far above the lazy, ignorant scientists and skeptics, but a record of zero-for-ten-thousand.

We need a term that describes the fact none of them go to the logical authorities or make the appropriate warnings to people. We have the wood ape clowns actually filing tax status as a charitable organization for habitat preservation without having nominated one molecule of habitat for preservation. We have BLAARGer's claiming the need to arm themselves with deadly weapons, passing by women pushing baby strollers, and not warning them of their infant's life being in danger. Neither of the above meets with pertinent land managers, wildlife researchers, or law enforcement officials to convey their alleged life-threatening concerns.

Actions are opposite of words, but I don't have a catchy term for it like "situational incompetence" - batteries die, camera shakey, running away, out of film, dog ate my homework excuses.
 
We can easily tell the difference between a real animal that is rare and a fake animal that is simply claimed to be rare. Peregrine Falcons are rare. I mentioned earlier that DDT and legal shooting meant that there were no birds of prey near my home when I was young. You can now see Kestrels, Sharp-shinned, and Red-tails. But, let's look at the Peregrine.

There are only 300 pairs in the entire Midwest. There are 16 nesting pairs in Indiana and almost all of them are near Lake Michigan. However, in 2012 pair showed up on top of one of Statesman Towers at ISU at Terre Haute. They were excited about this because there there hadn't been a nesting pair in the entire Wabash Valley in 50 or 60 years.

The female at this nest was born in Missouri at the Washington University Medical School nest. She is banded black/green S/34.

Her mate was born at the IPL Stout Plant in Indianapolis in 2008. He is banded black/green N/83.

They try to find every nest and band every chick so they can keep track of them. This is what happens with real scientists when real animals are rare.

Has anyone here heard of a bigfoot tagging or radio tracking project?
 
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John Nowak said:
Thank you! I thought I had, but apparently it's been proposed as the name of a disadvantage in a pen-an-paper role playing game:

http://forums.dumpshock.com/lofiversion/index.php/t16406.html

I also find that "situational competence" is in fact, a thing. No idea what it means, though.
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How interesting!

A character with this negative quality is impaired in his ability to use a certain Active skill he or she possesses (chosen when this quality is taken) for some reason. The reasoning behind this, and the exact limitations are chosen by the player (subject to the gamemaster’s approval) but should generally preclude the character from using the skill to it’s full effectiveness or from using the majority of the skill’s applications as defined by it’s specializations.
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So this is a parallel character feature chosen by players of other games.

They have this skill (bigfoot researcher/hunter). But the player also chooses to impair this skill - place limitations on it - so that it cannot be fully applied.

The player cannot hold a camera steady. The player's batteries die. The player is seized up with fear in the presence of bigfoot - the one thing he is supposedly programmed to do best...etc.


Situational incompetence is a core feature of the bigfoot researcher/hunter, and is a character quality that is not unique to the bigfoot game.
 
This thread has become lengthy so a continuation thread has been opened HERE. As always, the split point is arbitrary and participants are free to quote from this thread into the new one.
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