$1m bounty offered for live Bigfoot

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma..._offered_for_live_capture_of_bigfoot?mode=PF?

LEWISTON, Maine --A Maine scientist is preparing to release details of a $1 million reward for a photograph that leads to the live capture of Bigfoot, the abominable snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.

Loren Coleman, a professor at the University of Southern Maine, said the bounty would be paid for by an unnamed company and that he will release more details at a cryptozoology symposium at Bates College over Halloween weekend. Cryptozoology is the scientific study of hidden, rumored or unknown animals.
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Well, aside from the fact that this is the most liberal use of the word "scientist" I've seen in a long, long time, good. It'll be fun to watch people become "Bigfoot trappers." :D
 
Ha, I just posted this over at skepticforum.com earlier today! Great minds think alike. You must read Fark!
 
Beleth said:
Ha, I just posted this over at skepticforum.com earlier today! Great minds think alike. You must read Fark!
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Actually, no, I yanked it from a Skeptic listserv I'm on. There's a meme study in here somewhere...:)
 
Let's hope they bag one so that they can gloat and then be stunned speechless by the swiftness of our open mind-changing. After all, that's one of the things we've been demanding from them for so long. It'd only be appropriate to show our gratitude.

I doubt we'll get the opportunity, though.
 
BronzeDog said:
Let's hope they bag one so that they can gloat and then be stunned speechless by the swiftness of our open mind-changing. After all, that's one of the things we've been demanding from them for so long. It'd only be appropriate to show our gratitude.

I doubt we'll get the opportunity, though.
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Ditto. As I mentioned in one of the LAL threads, if one were captured, I'd be the first to throw a party.
 
Roger Patterson filmed an apparently lethargic female bigfoot from less than 100 feet away for over a minute in 1967 and he still couldn't catch it, or find it again.

A bigfoot sat in the mud within shouting distance of a 2000 BFRO expedition just a few hours before they discovered it's butt print. They still couldn't find it.

How is a picture going to lead to the capture?
 
I live in Maine and I saw the article in this morning's paper. I saw some very large tracks at the edge of the woods in back of my house this morning. :D
 
This is a ridiculous promotional ploy by Coleman. A million dollar bounty is not going to bring in a living Bigfoot or Nessie, let alone a dead one. I suspect that Coleman already knows this. This is because these are mythical creatures, not real ones.

This token mega-buck bounty won't even cause the believers to increase their search efforts. That is because most of them already know that they are only engaged in an adult fantasy game.
 
William Parcher said:
This is a ridiculous promotional ploy by Coleman. A million dollar bounty is not going to bring in a living Bigfoot or Nessie, let alone a dead one. I suspect that Coleman already knows this. This is because these are mythical creatures, not real ones.

This token mega-buck bounty won't even cause the believers to increase their search efforts. That is because most of them already know that they are only engaged in an adult fantasy game.
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You, my friend, are a very special brand of cynic. :)
 
Cleon said:
You, my friend, are a very special brand of cynic. :)
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I would label myself a pragmatic skeptic with a fairly decent handle on the human condition. I can also recognize a creative entrepreneur when I see one. Loren Coleman is in the "profit business" of cryptozoology.

Read Coleman... and support him by buying his books!
 
Of course, the subtle beauty of the $1 million bounty is that it shows that cryptozoologists don't even believe in the very thing that interests them. It is not a genuine gratuitous offer towards belief, it is one towards disbelief!

This bounty is a window for skeptics to peer into the psyche of the woos. In this case, it is a woo seeking to profit by superficially motivating other woos. Coleman is really only interested in selling more of his books.
 
William Parcher said:
This is a ridiculous promotional ploy by Coleman. A million dollar bounty is not going to bring in a living Bigfoot or Nessie, let alone a dead one. I suspect that Coleman already knows this. This is because these are mythical creatures, not real.
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You mean there's no such thing as big foot?????


I lower my gun and slink back to my other get rich quick schemes.
 
William Parcher said:
... many other legitimate and financed organizations would pay you $1 million for a dead Bigfoot.
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Some would pay quite a bit more than that, I'm sure.

Hell, put it up on eBay. You'll get enough money to buy Europe that way. ;)
 
LTC8K6 said:
How is a picture going to lead to the capture?
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Bingo. Notice the wording. The million bucks is not for the capture of Bigfoot. It is for a "photograph that leads to the live capture of Bigfoot, the abominable snowman or the Loch Ness Monster."

So this will cause all kinds of nuts to submit photos which will be grist for the paranormal publishing industry, without having to shell out a dime of the reward since none of them will lead to a capture.

And even if a Bigfoot is captured, it won't be because a photo lead to it. It's not like Bigfoot is frequenting a particular bar or ATM and someone calls it in to America's Most Wanted.
 
Second thoughts on getting rich...

Carry the gun as well as a big strong net and cage/crate. Many Bigfooters claim to see adult Bigfoots with small offspring. You drop the mother and capture the baby. This allows you to claim the $1 million Coleman bounty for the living baby and you still also have a dead adult to peddle on the open market. If the baby eludes capture, you drop it as well if you can... knowing that you can sell a dead mother and baby Bigfoot for way more than $1 million. Put any dead Bigfoots on ice. Ice is cheap so don't spare it. You are going to be very rich.

Not long ago, the Field Museum in Chicago bought the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossilized skeleton yet found, at auction (by Sotheby's) for about $8 million. McDonald's Corporation footed the bill. This was for an extinct and known animal of which numerous other (less complete) specimens exist. Bigfoot is way beyond T. rex for scientific and cultural significance. Bigfoot is supposed to be a living unconfirmed bipedal primate. It makes a lot of sense to think that an institution would pay $20 million for such an animal, dead or alive.

Poor Loren Coleman's $1 million bounty would get lost in the cash frenzy to purchase your trophy.
 
Luke T. said:
So this will cause all kinds of nuts to submit photos which will be grist for the paranormal publishing industry, without having to shell out a dime of the reward since none of them will lead to a capture.

And even if a Bigfoot is captured, it won't be because a photo lead to it. It's not like Bigfoot is frequenting a particular bar or ATM and someone calls it in to America's Most Wanted.
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A legitimate photo of a Bigfoot could lead to its capture. But that only works if Bigfoot is a real creature, which it is not.

Locating where an animal lives would normally lead directly to its capture. That doesn't apply to Bigfoot because this animal is mythical.
 
Hell, I bet Randi'd even part with his million just by showing him the bigfoot's body. So you'd get Randi's mill and then still have the thing to peddle on e-bay!! What's not to like?

-z
 
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