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7th October 2012, 08:06 AM | #121 |
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7th October 2012, 08:17 AM | #122 |
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Originally Posted by William Parcher
No, that's not really what i meant. No costumes required. A "Fairy Hunter" is looking for a humanoid figure that flies and also does other fairy things and they want to shoot to kill a fairy mainly to prove their existence (the shooter already believes). Boom - he shoots a young girl running through a forest. "I was hunting for fairies. I saw one and it moved just like a fairy. I even waited and watched some more and all I ever saw were various fairy movements and appearance. I'm sorry that I killed this girl but she was acting exactly like a fairy and I might say she could very well have been trying to look like a fairy. Do you know if this girl studied fairies? Do her parents know if she was a fairy researcher and may have been interested in their behavior?" See, I'm saying that once you declare your intended target to be a humanoid form (a fairy is still this even if they have wings) then the only REAL target for you is a human. If you end up killing anything that you were aiming at it will be a human that you kill. This is because the Bigfoot and the Fairy do not exist and therefore cannot be killed even if the shooter is 100% convinced that they are shooting the real deal. Standing bears don't really count because that isn't humanoid and is only just an upright animal. A wild turkey is an upright animal with wings but the Fairy Hunter doesn't shoot any of those because they obviously aren't humanoid. When your targeted cryptid is a wild undocumented bipedal ape... the only possible thing you can be hunting (really) is another human. If you actually make a kill... you will have murdered a human. By accident, yes, but it could only end that way. |
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7th October 2012, 08:23 AM | #123 |
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By the way, any who might harbor any fantasies that, should they commit manslaughter, Meldrum or Goodall or even Moneymaker or Cliff, would speak up for them, should forget that idea. No, you'll be all alone, wondering where the champions of bigfootery went (they took the elevator, you got the shaft).
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7th October 2012, 08:28 AM | #124 |
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My main question is: would or could there ever be such a trial where the question of Bigfoot's existence actually became part of the trial. Where you had expert witnesses testify both for and against Bigfoot existence. Arguing like we do here but in a courtroom under oath. And with subpoenas (not desire) determining who is required to show up.
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7th October 2012, 08:37 AM | #125 |
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7th October 2012, 08:48 AM | #126 |
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7th October 2012, 09:40 AM | #127 |
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"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker "I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325 Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic |
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7th October 2012, 09:49 AM | #128 |
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Your friends, despite being "hicks", may not actually be stupid. I know a number of people who could reasonably be described as hicks who are, nevertheless, quite intelligent.
There are, however, a lot of stupid people in the world. And pranksters are not excluded from that category. Witness, for example, the guy who was run over on the highway last month in a bigfoot suit. If alcohol is involved, the intelligence level may drop even further. Yes, a lot of people are probably too smart to attempt something like this. It only takes one, though. |
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7th October 2012, 05:42 PM | #131 |
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False. Meldrum has claimed a bigfoot left an elk impression. He has also said he believes the Patterson film shows a real bigfoot. He personally made casts of Freemans masterpiece, errr something piece. He also wrote a paper describing the footprints left by an alleged bipedal north american ape. He may say otherwise in some interviews, but how can a bigfoot leave an elk impression if there is no bigfoot? How can he endorse the BCM tracks as real if no real bigfoot made them? It's a game of semantics, and it seems you may have bought it too. However, does Meldrum "believe" in bigfoot, or does he just claim things are authentic while knowing they must be either misidentfied or fake? Legend meets science what? It's a silly game he plays. The "good doctor". |
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7th October 2012, 07:08 PM | #132 |
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When you write "false" I guess you mean you weren't aware of it. Certainly he dances around it. You might visit the Relict Hominoid Inquiry and go to the latest book review "wild men" by Meldrum.
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7th October 2012, 07:10 PM | #133 |
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How can one hold that belief and still claim that certain pieces of bigfootery evidence are what he feels is authentic? Isn't that a huge contradiction? How can it be?
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The guy who went to Siberia looking for the Yeti doesn't believe in bigfoot?
The guy who bought Freeman's stories and casts doesn't believe in bigfoot? This guy doesn't believe in bigfoot? http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-conten...th_america.pdf http://www.isu.edu/~meldd/fxnlmorph.html |
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8th October 2012, 12:09 PM | #138 |
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8th October 2012, 12:35 PM | #139 |
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What the article where he defends the evidence for bigfoot? lol...
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8th October 2012, 12:57 PM | #143 |
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Meldrum can claim whatever he wants, but he speaks exactly like a dreamy footer.
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8th October 2012, 01:09 PM | #144 |
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He carefully says things, much like the Patterson film "certainly could be a hoax" and this impression "couldve been made by" a sasquatch. He's not completely washed out as to throw away his credibility. This is the same guy with the aforementioned claims linked to many of bigfooterys best evidence. The same guy that sells cast copies of famous hoaxed tracks along with his DVD and publications on bigfoot. I think he's great at trumping up claims made by bigfooters like Noll, and Randles (thinking skookum smookum here, Randles was there also) All that said, sure he's said the evidence is not conclusive in one statement, yet in others he completely endorses evidence such as the PGF and others as authentic. Without there being a belief that the animal was there in the flesh and made the evidence, it could never be authentic. The "good doctor" gets plenty of grant money to study his non belief, and paid speaking engagements to endorse his non belief, along with television and documentary style videos. |
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Well, if you don't actually believe in bigfoot with certainty, then how could you advocate shooting one?
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Remember that Krantz actually hunted for bigfoot with a rifle. He would drive around at night with a spotlight and a rifle, waiting to get a shot at one.
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What a fool believes, no wise man has the power to reason away. What seems to be, is always better than nothing. 2 prints, same midtarsal crock..., I mean break? |
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I think the shooting is just part of the setting of the snipe hunt. But back to the issue of whether they could use Meldrum as a defense witness if they did shoot someone:
Let's not use half of the quotes:
Quote: "she inaccurately states that Meldrum "believes" that Bigfoot exists..." "I have always maintained that the evidence is inconclusive..." |
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Are there any discussions with Meldrum about shooting one? |
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What does "the evidence is there" mean? Anything can be called evidence. But evidence of what? What does "there" mean? In the files of the BFRO?
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9th October 2012, 03:03 AM | #154 |
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This why the Defense would have to rely on Fahrenbach and Bindernagel, it would be Ana absolute gas. The prosecution would just have to get them started and step back.
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Look, Meldrum published a peer-reviewed paper in which he proposed a name for the ichnotaxon that leaves its giant footprints around muddy patches and roadsides in the Pacific Northwest. That name he used for the holotype was not "Homo sapiens", it was "Anthropoidipes ameriborealis".
He can't have it both ways. He published that paper, so he can't claim that he doesn't fully accept that there are real bigfoots out there leaving those footprints. To admit that he doesn't believe that would be an admission that he committed academic fraud in publishing that paper. Should someone mistake a human for a bigfoot and kill the person in a botched attempt to collect a specimen, then a good defense lawyer could make the case that Meldrum shares culpability through his fraudulent research that contributes greatly to the belief among some people that there really are real bigfoots out there to shoot. (Right Muldur? There really are people who take Meldrum seriously, right?) Of course, I might share some blame too for egging the 'footers on to "prove it." I'm not too worried though, as my statements are consistently clear that there are no bigfoots to collect. |
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Don't forget the "Bigfootville" shooting at shadows in the dark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=AzGSjySGiFQ |
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Since they claim so much success in seeing "Bigfoots" even after shooting at them multiple times, I expect that the Finding Bigfoot crew will use gunshots as their main lure this season.
Amirite?? Then it will go viral and thousands of whacks will be doing it. In that case, yes, someone will be killed. |
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Revealing post by one of the shootem up gang in an apparent attempt to ward off criticisms of their manly marksmanship:
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