New Bigfoot Video

I also worked at a zoo as a youngin'. It's how I paid my way through college so I could become a scientist and study animals for real.

Some thrilling experiences from those years: charged by a Siberian tiger, grabbed by a gibbon, fed sea lions, helped necropsy a yak and polar bear, and enjoyed some serious eye candy on those hot summer days when it was easy to be distracted from seemingly endless lawn mowing. Those delightful hippies who supervised me gave me my first taste of hard liquor, and my first offers of marijuana and oral sex. (I declined the latter two, but the point stands that there is a great big exciting world out there filled with actual experiences that are far more gratifying than fabricated experiences.)
 
When I was younger in Indiana, you didn't see birds of prey. You did see vultures in the summer but no hawks. DDT and legal shooting left the hawk populations almost non-existent. It isn't like that now. The ban on DDT and outlawing shooting has allowed them to come back. You can see kestrels sitting on power lines. You can see sharp-shinned hawk. If you drive down the secondary roads, you will sometimes see red-tails perched on tree branches. One year, I had a nesting pair of red-tailed hawks behind my house. I noticed that year I never saw wild rabbits in the yard; I suspect a correlation. A few weeks ago I heard what sounded like storks. That surprised me because I had never heard storks in this area. I looked up a video with storks and the sound matched. Some further investigation revealed that Indiana is in the stork migration route and that a major stopping area is southwest of me. I didn't see a stork but it does appear that there was a flock of storks in my area.

What I've described is the real world. This is far from the empty and contrived world of footers desperately trying to turn every sound and every broken branch into a real animal. In real life, you get surprises; you find out things you didn't know. In the made-up world of bigfoot you enter the woods already knowing everything you will ever know about this subject. There will be no discoveries, no surprises, no moments of amazement. You bind yourself into the unsatisfying behavior of pretend, play-act, rationalize, repeat. That is sad indeed.
 
The Shrike said:
I also worked at a zoo as a youngin'. It's how I paid my way through college so I could become a scientist and study animals for real.
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That sounds a lot more interesting than the time I worked as an undocumented worker in a hydroponic lettuce farm.
 
The Shrike said:
Some thrilling experiences from those years: charged by a Siberian tiger, grabbed by a gibbon, fed sea lions, helped necropsy a yak and polar bear, and enjoyed some serious eye candy on those hot summer days when it was easy to be distracted from seemingly endless lawn mowing. Those delightful hippies who supervised me gave me my first taste of hard liquor, and my first offers of marijuana and oral sex. (I declined the latter two, but the point stands that there is a great big exciting world out there filled with actual experiences that are far more gratifying than fabricated experiences.)
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I see a reality "zoo hippies" show.

From barehl

What I've described is the real world. This is far from the empty and contrived world of footers desperately trying to turn every sound and every broken branch into a real animal. In real life, you get surprises; you find out things you didn't know. In the made-up world of bigfoot you enter the woods already knowing everything you will ever know about this subject. There will be no discoveries, no surprises, no moments of amazement. You bind yourself into the unsatisfying behavior of pretend, play-act, rationalize, repeat. That is sad indeed.
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I am so glad to see others here demonstrating what I try to drive home: the 'footers have the least amount of outdoor experience of anyone, banking on people giving them vastly more credit than they deserve for curiosity.

It isn't just that they don't get out in the woods. On the rare occasions that they do, all of the natural wonders are shunted aside in order to supplant it with nonsense.

It would be okay if it was just make-believe. But to be so malicious towards people doing the real thing - this is what is so objectionable.
 
OMG, I think I actually agree with ABP on something.

I went to my one and only bigfoot conference 4 years ago and it was the turning point for me well before I made it over here. You know there is something wrong with the picture when everyone's butt is bigger than yours.
 
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