Bigfoot Evidence to be announced today

[rewebster]

And this has what to do with the Blair Witch people getting jail?

they didn't----


I was looking at the similarities of 'making something up' to look real (for money and/or for fun)

 

[Evo]

Scary lady. There was a time, probably a short one, when a good hoax was appreciated. Why should it be taken as a personal afront; pride demanding punishment of the hoaxters.

Yeah but this is funny. As long as no one is hurt, I don't see the harm in playing a little prank.

Because they are taking money under false pretenses. People are being hurt (monetarily). That's illegal. It's called fraud.

 

[WarPhalange]

Yeah, but nobody has the resources to pursue everything that is fraudulent. Look at homeopathy. The FDA just let's it slide because it's mainly water, so besides spending money, it doesn't really hurt people.

 

[rewebster]

then, what about places like the 'Oregon Vortex'? or Barnum's 'American Museum'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum's_American_Museum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_Mermaid

 

[Evo]

then, what about places like the 'Oregon Vortex'? or Barnum's 'American Museum'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum's_American_Museum

What about it, it's for amusement. Their money isn't being taken from them due to them being lied to.

Did you read what you posted?

In July 2000 the museum opened again on the internet due to the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The CUNY Graduate Center rebuilt the five-story museum on a Web site with the aim to provide students and history buffs with a full archive of information about the museum and relevant 19th-century subjects. [2]

 

[rewebster]

just about every 'sideshow' charges 'money'----some things are fake or exaggerated

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_Mermaid

was one of the 'major' attractions

 

[Evo]

just about every 'sideshow' charges 'money'----some things are fake or exaggerated

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_Mermaid

was one of the 'major' attractions

From 1842!

You are posting absolutely un-related nonsense.

 

[baywax]

I saw this story on video or TV and the discoverers don't strike me as woodsmen or anything close to it. They look like sun burnt stock promoters. Plus they've shown the full carcass but it's stuffed in a freezer in their basement... they say they've gone through 2 or 3 freezers holding on to it. The images of the carcass are inconclusive... there is the face, facing up... but it looks like a good film-class prosthetic. There are photos of the "creature" in the forest... I suppose some of the relatives of the deceased... but they are guassian blurred and the figure looks like the same body in the freezer.

What's more is that California really doesn't have enough wilderness left to attract the fabled Sasquatch. There is the potential for it to live here in the North West. In fact there are many sightings, recordings of the wails and so on coming out of these parts. No carcasses though... I hear they (conveniently) take good care of their dead.

 

[waht]

Makes one wonder how could such a hairy beast survive in Georgia's tropical climate?

 

[WarPhalange]

Makes one wonder how could such a hairy beast survive in Georgia's tropical climate?

Clearly he doesn't want the Russians expanding their power, either.

 

[Ai52487963]

Makes one wonder how could such a hairy beast survive in Georgia's tropical climate?

Rednecks do it all the time. Perhaps they shot one of their friends?

 

[Alex6200]

Rednecks do it all the time. Perhaps they shot one of their friends?

That's terrible.

 

[HallsofIvy]

Makes one wonder how could such a hairy beast survive in Georgia's tropical climate?

Hair is an insulator. It can keep an animal cool in a hot climate as well as warm in a cold clilmate.


(Although I feel foolish giving a straight answer in this thread!)

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Most current cnn article
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/19/bigfoot.hoax/index.html

 

[Evo]

How much money did some fool pay these two?

On August 12, he said, the two "requested an undisclosed sum of money as an advance, expected from the marketing and promotion."

Two days later, after signing a receipt and counting the money

 

[turbo]

All for a rubber gorilla suit... A fool and his money...

 

[baywax]

Oops... I thought the "find" was in California... not out near Russia()... sorry

 

[sketchtrack]

I hope they end up victims of identity theft and lose everything.

 

[LowlyPion]

OK. Case closed.

Now comes the penalty phase.