Breaking News:
The claims that Big Foot has been discovered are just a hoax. The search goes on, I guess.
George Weiss (mail) (www):
ha. i knew it-you owe me a beer
8.19.2008 8:28pm
Cornellian (mail):
In the olden days (i.e. prior to the late 1990's) you could drag out a scam like that for weeks or months. In these days of the instant-reaction blogosphere, you get called out on it within days, sometimes within hours.
8.19.2008 8:45pm
PatHMV (mail) (www):
From the linked article: "Searching for Bigfoot Inc., 'is seeking justice for themselves and for all the people who were deceived by this deception.'"

Ummmm.... all 2 people who didn't know it was a fake from the beginning? Seriously, how dim did one have to be to actually believe that these guys had really found "bigfoot"?
8.19.2008 8:51pm
Michael Drake (mail) (www):
This is just a manufactured side-show to distract us from the fact that we're being visited by space aliens.
8.19.2008 8:57pm
byomtov (mail):
Breaking news? I'm with PatHMV on this one.
8.19.2008 8:57pm
Thomas_Holsinger:
There was a seasonal comedy X-Files episode in which Sculley started an autopsy on an apparent alien only to discover a zipper. It turned out to be an Air Force officer wearing a space alien costume suit.
8.19.2008 8:59pm
Joe Bingham (mail):
The truth will out.
8.19.2008 9:16pm
sbron:
Tomorrow's headline

"Global Warming to Threaten Bigfoot Habitats."

Pseudo-science meets psuedo-science, but I think Bigfoot is more likely to exist than warming, I mean climate change, I mean hedging our bets.
8.19.2008 9:19pm
Publicus (mail):
I am assuming VC is blogging about the Bigfoot subject because it is Constitutionally mandated that all blogs must discuss the Bigfoot subject?
8.19.2008 9:21pm
CDR D (mail):
Whatever happened to the Chupahuevos... er, I mean "cabra"?
8.19.2008 9:37pm
OrinKerr:
Breaking news? I'm with PatHMV on this one.

I was joking, of course.
8.19.2008 9:40pm
smitty1e:
Just as long as nothing disturbs the research grants.
8.19.2008 9:45pm
Fub:
Publicus wrote at 8.19.2008 8:21pm:
I am assuming VC is blogging about the Bigfoot subject because it is Constitutionally mandated that all blogs must discuss the Bigfoot subject?
It's just anticipatory conformance with the soon to be legislated Pelosi fairness doctrine for the intarweb.
8.19.2008 10:00pm
Bill Poser (mail) (www):
This was obviously a hoax from the outset. (a) if the perps had been sincere, they would have invited unconnected biologists to examine the body and take samples from it themselves rather than allegedly sending samples to a lab of their own choosing. (b) they said they found it in Georgia.
8.19.2008 10:10pm
Mike& (mail):
Broader question: Why was this even covered? Why did the media pay attention attention to this issue?
8.19.2008 10:11pm
Anderson (mail):
My secret is safe!
8.19.2008 10:22pm
Anderson (mail):
When you're on the Internet, nobody knows you're Bigfoot.
8.19.2008 10:23pm
Bill Poser (mail) (www):

Why did the media pay attention attention to this issue?

Because the ignorant masses eat this stuff up. The real newspapers don't want to lose readers to the tabloids so they cover it too. Furthermore, a lot of reporters and editors are too ignorant to distinguish real science from junk.
8.19.2008 10:23pm
Hoosier:
sbron: "Global Warming to Threaten Bigfoot Habitats."

Women and minorities hardest hit?
8.19.2008 10:38pm
Freddy Hill:

Because the ignorant masses eat this stuff up.

I have seen no evidence of that, unless by "ignorant masses" you mean "media elites."
8.19.2008 11:19pm
Brian G (mail) (www):
I was talking to the Loch Ness Monster the other day and he said he knew this story was bull from jump street.
8.19.2008 11:41pm
byomtov (mail):
I was joking, of course.

Sure.

Still, assuming a law professor is in touch with reality is risky business.
8.19.2008 11:53pm
MJG:

Breaking News:
The claims that Big Foot has been discovered are just a hoax. The search goes on, I guess.


what!!!!
8.20.2008 12:07am
NickM (mail) (www):
The joke's on all of you. Some years back he was given a thorough full-body waxing and signed to a NBA contract. He has 4 NBA championships to his credit and has been accepted as human by most of the population, although the strange sounds he made on his rap album should have tipped people off.

Nick
8.20.2008 12:13am
Dave N (mail):
But just think how many more hits the VC will now get when people google "Bigfoot."
8.20.2008 12:25am
jccamp (mail):
Obama Experience Hoax Discovered
Candidate Turns Out to be Empty Suit
8.20.2008 1:16am
jccamp (mail):
Sorry. i'm tired and it's late.
8.20.2008 1:16am
Bill Poser (mail) (www):
Freddy Hill:

I think you don't look at the newspapers in the supermarket enough.
8.20.2008 1:20am
Sua Tremendita (mail):
Tremendous! Fortunately, there's still "manmade global warming" and "manbearpig" out there...
8.20.2008 1:22am
LM (mail):
Bill Poser:

Freddy Hill:

I think you don't look at the newspapers in the supermarket enough.

No, he just thinks the media elites read The Weekly World News, and the ignorant masses read The Star.
8.20.2008 1:28am
one of many:
I am sure it is a considerable relief to many people to know that Bigfoot is not dead and stuffed in a freezer. It should be considered a public service to announce this and bring joy to all those who feared the reports of Bigfoot's demise were not exaggerated. Now if you would just let us know where Jimmy Hoffa (Sr.) is... .
8.20.2008 2:55am
dearieme:
Why are leprechauns confined to Ireland? Because Nessie ate the Scottish ones.
8.20.2008 8:03am
Ryan Waxx (mail):

I am assuming VC is blogging about the Bigfoot subject because it is Constitutionally mandated that all blogs must discuss the Bigfoot subject?


It is a plot to reinforce the depression of Those Who Are Perpetually Aggrieved At The Declining Quality Of Posts.
8.20.2008 8:10am
Patrick216:
It's a conspiracy. This is how the VC conspirators intend to take over the world -- an army of Bigfoots. One of their soldiers had an unfortunate accident and got discovered. So they're covering up for it by saying it's fake.

Don't you people watch those History Channel "documentaries" that describe how the Air Force covers up the UFOs?
8.20.2008 8:38am
Dreadnaught (www):
Shocking. We all thought this was the real deal.
8.20.2008 11:09am
ChrisIowa (mail):
Someone put bigfoot in mouth.
8.20.2008 11:24am
dll111:
I knew that was Clarence Beaks the whole time.
8.20.2008 12:08pm
Hoosier:
Sua Tremendita: I had forgotten about Manbearpig.

Now I won't be able to sleep at night.
8.20.2008 12:14pm
Loren (mail):

This is how the VC conspirators intend to take over the world -- an army of Bigfoots. One of their soldiers had an unfortunate accident and got discovered. So they're covering up for it by saying it's fake.


As evidenced by Yetisburg, an army of Bigfoots will only spur one's enemies to build their own Bigfoot armies. The resulting cycle of Bigfoot escalation eventually results in a state of Sasquatch detente, where the dire consequences of utilizing these armies acts as a deterrent to any Bigfoot deployment.
8.20.2008 12:31pm
tgb1000 (mail):
Ah, I knew I could count on VC commenters to take a bit of newsfluff and turn it into some bitter partisanship. You never let me down.
8.20.2008 1:23pm
krs:
Broader question: Why was this even covered? Why did the media pay attention attention to this issue?

It's CNN. Need I say more?
8.20.2008 1:43pm
Big Foot (mail):
Told you. You punks ain't never going to find me.
8.20.2008 2:11pm
A.W. (mail):
Humor aside (I was "Big Foot" above), I think the most ridiculous thing i heard was when a guy in Washington state was not allowed to improve his property because it would threaten a number of species, including Gigantipithicus Americanus (sp?). Yes, that is right, they were concerned this would harm bigfoot.

Colbert, back when he was on the daily show, did a report, and his comment was, "well, clearly they are endangered. That's why you never see them."

Kafka, call your office.
8.20.2008 2:16pm
Carl in Chicago (mail):
I recall attending a bona fide science conference, where two "bigfoot researchers" gave a talk entitled "New evidence for the existence of bigfoot in northern California." How that talk even got on the schedule is another story.

The "evidence" boiled down to claims of rocks being rolled down the mountain toward their camp, strange "grunts" at night, and to top it off, footfalls (from a running, bipedal organism) in their camp one night.

At the talk's conclusion, a world-reknowned specialist on mammals raised his hand, and stated:

"There are many possible explanations for the sounds you heard, deliria being one of the foremost."

The crowd roared, and the speaker was undaunted.
8.20.2008 5:19pm
Alan K. Henderson (mail) (www):
Karl Rove has the real Bigfoot body.
8.20.2008 9:51pm
Smokey:
It's a known fact that no one has seen Bigfoot and Janet Reno in the same room together.

Hmm-m...
8.20.2008 10:28pm
Hoosier:
I'd be interested in the Big Foot/Yeti believers' explanation of the fact that there is no ape native to a temperate/damned cold climate--except, it would seem, these crypto-organisms.
8.21.2008 12:10am
Careless:
Well, biologically (but not taxonomically - a bit of human bias there) there are subspecies of humans native to temperate/cold climates, and we're apes. Closer to chimps than chimps are to other apes, etc.
8.22.2008 1:35am