Didn't realize you were on such cordial terms with the creature that has eluded science for so long. Next time you have 'em over for four o'clock tea, between munching down a few cucumber sandwiches, do try to snap a pic. or two if you are so inclined against the procurement of a physical body. All the tracks in the woods, twisted branches, bedding areas, scat and hair samples, and lastly ,unfortunately, your Sunday tea photos don't constitute the proof that will recognize and classify this animal regardless of whether it's a killer or an oversized "Curious George" and afford it protection from those who seek to prove its very existence by lethal means. In short, as an American GI in Vietnam once said, "it order to save it...we had to destroy it." Well, in the case of Bigfoot if and when a body is discovered by means of natural death or death at the hands of man, others will probably still be "taken" for science. One specimen of both sexes at preferably different ages would be ideal.
The late Dr. Krantz had a very good point when someone once asked him what he would think if the Bigfoot that was shot turned out to be the last one. His reply was roughly "well, so what...if it was the last one...it was doomed to extinction anyway...it wouldn't even have been recognized as having been a legitimate species (had it died a natural death holed up somewheres outdoors undiscovered). I personally don't care whether these creatures are innately hostile or innately passive, it matters not as far as producing a body for science. To each their own I suppose. I don't go out of my way to discourage people from collecting butterflies, though I consider those many-colored winged things to be seemingly nonaggressive and harmless. True, science has already classified them and their numbers are plentiful.
Bigfoot will never be classified nor their numbers even guessed at let alone be protected if its proof of existence is nothing more that blurry photos, twisted branches, plaster casts that beg of orthopedic help not to mention a good cobbler(Bossburg, WA '69), and bits of hair and scat. People seem to believe that DNA sequencing of hair and fecal remains will provide valid scientific proof of Bigfoot. It greatly helps to have reference Bigfoot DNA to compare any new evidence with or against. Of course this is something of a "Catch-22" where you already have conclusive Bigfoot evidence to prove that Bigfoot exists in the first place. Suffice to say...in the words of Conrad's character Kurtz..."Exterminate all the brutes!"
Posted on Sep 26, 2002, 1:19 PM from IP address 205.187.134.55