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Read my signature. Somehow that does not seem to be a very nice post.

OS?OS? As your response filing deadline ticks away WSA goes on the offensive and speaks to the media. He suggests that those who know the truth need look no further than the reports which provide all the evidence he needs. He asks for public support and lays out plans for a clothing optional viewing/communing area where those who know the truth can communicate with the creatures once the lawsuit is won. He looks straight into the camera lens and promises to keep adding more reports as they become available and implores the viewers to forward him reports to help him silence the scoftics and protect these majestic creatures once and for all! Even though you're positive the creatures can't be living on your property Is there any possible way to win this lawsuit OS? Are there any experts who could examine the property for evidence of habitation and testify on your behalf? What about those mythical scientists of which DWA speaks so disparagingly? Could they possibly be of any help? Does science have anything to counter DWA's sighting and the pile of reports? What will you do OS? Will you walk away from your home because of sighting reports or will you fight this hypothetical lawsuit?

My wife thinks I'm nuts. She does however believe in flying saucers so... but hey, either way it's made for a cool novel & movie. My mother dropped this pic off yesterday. It's a 10 yr old AaronD showing I was a squatchy kid even then. For time perspective the PGF was coming up on its 10 yr anniversary

You may have a point for some individual proponents, or snake oil salesmen as I would call them, but not all. Particularly here, I'm confident that there are several proponents or, like me, cautiously skeptical optimists, that are involved out of a serious desire to provide an answer to this question. If information over hundreds of reports (height, sightings by season, footprint size, etc.) has a bell-shaped distribution, which is the easier explanation - that people are reporting an animal that varies in a natural distribution like other animals or that hundreds of faked or miss-identified encounters were managed to ensure that they created a natural distribution. While I agree that the ultimate proof of existence of Bigfoot won't be proven w/out a body, I'd like to think that intelligent inquirers looking at information intelligently can glean valid information from reports. That is the rubik's cube that hooked me after a solid 30 years of not thinking about this. It might not be a mystery to you, but it's an open question to me. And I participate - in a quite time-consuming way now that I have the time to do so - in an effort to answer that question to my satisfaction. My answer might not change your mind but my goal isn't to change anyone's mind but my own. Again, I certainly think that certain people and groups have more of a business interest than an actual interest in actually finding anything. But just like other pursuits - religion and political leadership come to mind - the fact that some charlatans take advantage of the situation doesn't detract from those who try to faithfully carry out their mission. I guess the argument I would pick is that your argument sweeps too broadly.