"Bigfoot Trackers" Say they've got a body

[wolfboy]

Originally Posted by Rojo

Most wash out at journeyman. A trust fund helps.

Even more rare than Bigfoot: The scrappy veteran bigfoot hoaxer. There have been reported sightings, but nothing confirmed.

[rotnoid]

Fox updated the original story. The press conference is scheduled for 3 pm Eastern today.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404321,00.html

Hooray! It's Bigfoot Day!

At 12 noon Friday Pacific Daylight Time, 3 p.m. on the East Coast, renowned Sasquatch seeker Tom Biscardi plans to hold a press conference in Palo Alto, Calif., to divulge photos and DNA samples purportedly pertaining to a dead man-ape found in the Georgia woods.

But even Bigfoot true believers are growing skeptical of Biscardi's claims, especially after seeing the photo of the body, viewable here.

"This body has little to do with Bigfoot and everything to do with a Sasquatch costume that someone developed after watching too many gorilla movies," warns Loren Coleman, who runs the influential Cryptomundo blog devoted to strange and unknown animals. "The teeth that seem to have been placed in the mouth could be my late mother's false teeth."

Matthew Whitton, a Clayton County, Ga., police officer on medical leave after being shot on the job, and Rick Dyer, a former corrections officer, say they shot the seven-foot-seven-inch creature in the forests of northern Georgia in July.

"I've had interactions with Tom Biscardi in the past, and based on that history, I would say that anything he is involved in is suspect," Idaho State anthropologist and Bigfoot investigator Jeffrey Meldrum told Scientific American.

As for the Bigfoot body in the freezer, says Meldrum, "it just looks like a costume with some fake guts thrown on top for effect."

An online Halloween-costume store, TheHorrorDome.com, based in Port Washington, N.Y., sells a full-sized Sasquatch suit that strongly resembles the thawed-out corpse, right down to the height.

"It definitely looks like our costume," owner Jerry Parrino, who's been keeping track of the Bigfoot body story, told FOXNews.com.

Two things stand out about Biscardi's claims: first of all, that he's not going to be presenting a body — and in fact claims to not even know where the body is — and secondly, that the DNA evidence he's promising won't be accompanied by a "chain of custody" that details where it came from and how it got to the lab.

In other words, all he may have is photos — which don't appear to be too convincing.

[Team Clark]

Here are my questions!!

1) Can any members of Big Foot's family pitch? I mean they have got to have good arm strength!! What a great job of marketing the Reds could do with them.

2) If they could pitch would you ever charge the mound?

3) The body's teeth are awful white. Did someone leave some Crest White strips behind at a camp?

4) How do you come upon a group of Bigfoot's and not get you #$% kicked?

[SeeinRed]

Originally Posted by Team Clark

4) How do you come upon a group of Bigfoot's and not get you #$% kicked?

Two words..... Chuck Norris. You know Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table because the only element he believes in is the element of suprise. Remember, Chuck Norris doesn't sleep, he waits....

[MrCinatit]

Originally Posted by SeeinRed

Two words..... Chuck Norris. You know Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table because the only element he believes in is the element of suprise. Remember, Chuck Norris doesn't sleep, he waits....

I disagree. I think they showed it their YouTube videos, then killed the thing in its sleep.

[rotnoid]

Originally Posted by Team Clark

Here are my questions!!

1) Can any members of Big Foot's family pitch? I mean they have got to have good arm strength!! What a great job of marketing the Reds could do with them.

2) If they could pitch would you ever charge the mound?

We've already seen that Wookies can pitch. I'm assuming bigfoots are pretty genetically similar. As for 2, no way no how. He can throw inside all day long.

[UKFlounder]

Wouldn't the plural form be "Bigfeet?" :

Originally Posted by Team Clark

Here are my questions!!


4) How do you come upon a group of Bigfoot's and not get you #$% kicked?

[MrCinatit]

The story from the big press conference.

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Bigfoot or big fat lie? Whenever someone reports sighting the hairy beast of yore (details always fuzzy) or capturing the hirsute humanoid on film (images always grainy), it scares up a dubious debate of international proportions. Friday was just the latest episode in the Sasquatch show, as unreal as it may be.
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Two men who claim to have stumbled across a Bigfoot corpse in the woods of northern Georgia indignantly stood by their story at a news conference in Palo Alto during which they offered an e-mail from an entomologist as evidence and acknowledged they wouldn't mind making a few bucks from the "find" they have kept stuffed in a freezer for over a month.

"Everyone who has talked down to us is going to eat their words," predicted Matt Whitton, an officer on medical leave from the Clayton County Police Department.

Whitton and Rick Dyer, a former corrections officer, announced the discovery in early July on YouTube videos and their Web site. Although they did not consider themselves devoted Bigfoot trackers before then, they have since started offering weekend search expeditions in Georgia for $499. The specimen they bagged, the men say, was one of several apelike creatures they spotted cavorting in the woods.

As they faced a skeptical audience of several hundred journalists and Bigfoot fans that included one curiosity seeker in a Chewbacca suit, the pair were joined Friday by Tom Biscardi, head of a group called Searching for Bigfoot. Other Bigfoot hunters call Biscardi a huckster looking for media attention.

Biscardi fielded most of the questions. Among them: Why should anyone accept the men's tale when they weren't willing to display their frozen artifact or pinpoint where they allegedly found it? How come bushwhackers aren't constantly tripping over primate remains if there are as many as 7,000 Bigfoots roaming the United States, as Biscardi claimed?

"I understand where you are coming from, but how many real Bigfoot researchers are out there trekking 140,000 miles a year?" Biscardi said.

Biscardi, Whitton and Dyer presented what they called evidence supporting the Bigfoot theory. It was an e-mail from a University of Minnesota entomologist, but all it said was that of the three DNA samples sent to the scientist, one was human, one was likely a possum and the third could not be tested because of technical problems.

At least one other Bigfoot researcher, Idaho State University anthropologist Jeffrey Meldrum, called the trio's claims "not compelling in the least." He told the Scientific American that photographs posted on the Web site "just looks like a costume with some fake guts thrown on top for effect."

Whitton and Dyer have offered three different accounts of how they found the beast's remains.

In early videos, the animal was shot by a former felon, and the men followed it into the woods. In a second version, they found a "family of Bigfoot" in the north Georgia mountains. In the third, the two were hiking and stumbled upon the corpse with open wounds.

In one of their YouTube videos, they are shown speaking with a man they identify as a scientist. Earlier this week, they admitted that the man was Dyer's brother. Dyer said they were simply having fun.

Asked why anyone should believe his claims when he already had shown a flair for tomfoolery, he suggested that skeptics simply are jealous.

"They don't have a choice to believe us. We have a body," Dyer said.

[Hap]

[Degenerate39]

Originally Posted by Team Clark

Here are my questions!!

1) Can any members of Big Foot's family pitch? I mean they have got to have good arm strength!! What a great job of marketing the Reds could do with them.

2) If they could pitch would you ever charge the mound?

The other team lets the wookie win.

[OldRightHander]

Originally Posted by Degenerate39

The other team lets the wookie win.

And a lefty to boot. What would it take to sign him?

[Raisor]

You have to hand it to them. They got reporters, and a wookie, to come to the presser.

[CrackerJack]

"Possum" DNA, and some human. Foiled again!

[MrCinatit]

Originally Posted by CrackerJack

"Possum" DNA, and some human. Foiled again!

Who knew that Big Foot was part human, part possum? Not sure I want to meet the father, or the mother.

[Matt700wlw]

Originally Posted by wolfboy

Even more rare than Bigfoot: The scrappy veteran bigfoot hoaxer. There have been reported sightings, but nothing confirmed.

Ryan Freel with oversized slippers...