Moderated Bigfoot- Anybody Seen one?

[Gilbert Syndrome]

LOLOL....so since no one has been found shot dead in a gorilla suit in the forests of the PNW is it safe to assume that everyone was smart enough not to wear one out in the woods during hunting season ?

( I'm just practicing the technical argument folks, humor me please)

The soil is much too acidic, the gorilla-suited corpse would erode faster than David Guests face in a Turkish sauna.... Next?

 

[Jodie]

The soil is much too acidic, the gorilla-suited corpse would erode faster than David Guests face in a Turkish sauna.... Next?

So it's possible that this happened, but because of the potential trouble one would get in for misidentifying a human, they left the evidence to take care of itself?

Do you not see the contradiction there for the fossil record debate?

 

[DennyT]

^I think you fell into the sar-chasm.

 

[DennyT]

Actually Parn, he kinda did:

"with as much hunting as occurs out there, someone would have shot one accidentally long before now if they existed."

Wow, you are off the beam. That's not his personal experience. Humans have been hunting every real animal with great success for thousands of years. Most if not all charismatic game animals would be long extinct by now if it were not for laws/penalties.

 

[DennyT]

You managed to see the tree and miss the forest.

I find that amusing.

 

[Gilbert Syndrome]

So it's possible that this happened, but because of the potential trouble one would get in for misidentifying a human, they left the evidence to take care of itself?

Do you not see the contradiction there for the fossil record debate?

I'm not sure, all I can safely say is that people have been mistaken for all kinds of crazy things during hunting season, there are many well documented accounts of people being mistaken for Turkeys and Bears, makes me wonder why they don't make gun owners take IQ tests.

I personally don't buy into the notion that anyone donning a gorilla suit would do it in such a highly dangerous area as to put their lives at risk.

 

[Jodie]

I'm not sure, all I can safely say is that people have been mistaken for all kinds of crazy things during hunting season, there are many well documented accounts of people being mistaken for Turkeys and Bears, makes me wonder why they don't make gun owners take IQ tests.

I personally don't buy into the notion that anyone donning a gorilla suit would do it in such a highly dangerous area as to put their lives at risk.

I can't see that either, and having misidentified several things over the years I can understand how it happens. I'm not sure that it has anything to do with IQ as it does desire to find the target.

 

[Gilbert Syndrome]

I can't see that either, and having misidentified several things over the years I can understand how it happens. I'm not sure that it has anything to do with IQ as it does desire to find the target.

Maybe i'm being a little unfair, but in my humble opinion, if you can't tell the difference between a Turkey and an Emo kid, you shouldn't be allowed to operate or own a gun of any kind.

 

[Jodie]

Well there is that but even a diagnosis of some form of mental insanity won't prevent someone from being able to purchase a gun, which is a completely different topic altogether.

 

[Gilbert Syndrome]

Well there is that but even a diagnosis of some form of mental insanity won't prevent someone from being able to purchase a gun, which is a completely different topic altogether.

True dat.

 

[DennyT]

I was born and raised in North Central Washington and I can't imagine anyone dumb enough to wear any sort of fur suit in the woods during hunting season.

bob heironimus did it for about 3 minutes for a thousand bucks*, and he was pretty scared.

*he thought

 

[GT/CS]

Maybe i'm being a little unfair, but in my humble opinion, if you can't tell the difference between a Turkey and an Emo kid, you shouldn't be allowed to operate or own a gun of any kind.

The hunters who live east of the Cascades have learned to wear bright orange vests while in the woods during hunting season because folks from the other side of the mountains tend to shoot anything could remotely, possibly, kinda sorta, maybe in the right light is you squint just right, look like a deer. They're usually too drunk to aim but once in a while the get lucky, or unlucky.

 

[DennyT]

startling admission by hard core BFFer:

There may indeed be other phenomenon that occur in the woods which may not be directly connected to bigfoot.

so bigfoot might NOT be responsible for rock throwing? stick structures? broken tree tops? yodeling?
heresy!

 

[GT/CS]

Who is the source of the quote?

 

[AlaskaBushPilot]

Musketdawn - you've taken "reason number 64" on the list for nonexistence of Bigfoot and pretended it was pivotal to us. Reason #1 through reason #63 are not assumed away when we're adding #64 on top of the other 63.

Parn pointed out that man has been hunting much more powerful animals than bigfoot is alleged to be, and also in their own environment like the sea:

Whales - 60 tons and larger. The biggest animals on earth.
Wooly Mammoth - ten tons. Possibly hunted to extinction.
Polar Bears - One ton, twelve feet tall, apex predator of the North.
Coastal Brown Bear - up to a ton
Moose - Up to a ton.
Bison - Up to a ton.
Walrus - Up to a ton

Etc.

Bigfoot, at his most laughably powerful, is not much of a challenge to people that regularly kill animals a hundred times larger. If you step outside bigfoot's alleged terrain, you see indigenous people taking out hippos, lions and tigers, crocodiles, elephants and so on with primitive tools for thousands of years.

We have overwhelming physical evidence of this. There is no physical evidence of bigfoot at all, let alone that man hunted him, and everyone that is a regular here knows that. The strawman framing is about sufficiency. No, this is not sufficient evidence for bigfoot's nonexistence: No accidental shootings.

Nobody said that. So you opened here with a strawman.

 

[DennyT]

Who is the source of the quote?

southern yahoo, in the thread, Researcher's Code of Ethics.

cough, cough

 

[Volsquatch]

southern yahoo, in the thread, Researcher's Code of Ethics.

cough, cough

You either have a touch of bronchitis or you're referring to a thread over at "Sweatyland".

It is just unbelievable to me as to how far down the toilet that place has swirled to allow some wide-eyed wishful thinker like Sweaty to reign supreme. In the old days, that sort of BS'er would get eaten for breakfast, lunch, dinner and taco bell's 4th meal, then promptly **** out the back door. Nowadays, it appears that many over there like to bask in the glory of their popularity by making sure all the believers have a comfy place to hang out while being coddled and sheltered from the cold, hard facts of the outside world.

Oh well, such is the "kinder, gentler and more accepting" state of Bigfootery today, which actually makes it much easier for the money-grabbing carnival-barkers to take even more from the gullible fools than ever before.

 

[GT/CS]

Yeah, check out my signature line.
Sweaty is an icon at the BFF.
That's gotta annoy Munns to no end.

 

[Volsquatch]

Yeah, Sweaty has become the ultimate go-to man on the BFF without having any pinned threads or knowing the first thing about creature suits or photogrammetry. All he needs is rainbow font, PaintShop Pro and "Bleever Suave".

Now that's funny.

 

[rockinkt]

Hey - to Sweaty's credit he was not fired from the last film he worked on and basically forced to switch careers because he was publicly dissed by the director in trade mags and on the internet as being incompetent. I also think Sweaty is gainfully employed and has never tried to solicit funds from bleevers either.