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I quit reading because I already knew what it was saying. What I read was pretty much covered in the BFRO document. I HAVE used what I learned from BFRO and others, and have had a face to face (ok - face to arm) encounter plus several other incidents. I don't find it laughable at all... It's only 136 pages and I have it right in front of me. Maybe I'll read it now....

I've decided my old Ford F150 squatch-mobile is tired and wants to find a new home. We've had a lot of adventures together. It's time to put 'er out to pasture. But I've found something that I think will suit me well in my mid-life crisis. It's being built as we speak. A few tweaks here and there perhaps, but who knows, maybe we'll have some fun together!

Wowser! That is a sweet vehicle. Congratulations. A friend of mine has one he bought for his business and had it wrapped. You're going to like that!!

There are 2 speakers that are going to be bigfoot related and the workshops that are bigfoot centric will be track casting techniques, the Robert Morgan method of bigfoot investigation, and data collection equipment.

Not if the ideas are the BS narrative of a podcaster from facebook who is only interested in cultivating their cadre of followers. Its a Bigfoot themed comicon, and to call it a conference, god forbid a symposium is utter BS. It's the same speakers making their rounds and making the same noise.

This preoccupation with how other people spend their time is so odd to me. A bunch of people lining up to get Matt Moneymaker’s autograph has no real bearing on me or my efforts. Please don’t tell me that it causes image problems and that’s why ‘science will never take us seriously’. Are we really that self-unaware? Let’s just take a second to look at some of the more high profile ‘serious researchers’. They, too, can do what they want…but, let’s not kid ourselves that it doesn’t look silly to the general public. Who cares? I think bird watching sounds pretty ridiculous, but I don’t care if others enjoy it. If you can’t accept that what we do doesn’t look a bit silly to the average person…then you are honestly not the most perceptive person. Let’s be honest here…A lot of the people who are consumed by bitterness because someone is a ‘Bigfoot celebrity’ are just upset that someone else is getting the attention that they feel they deserve. Or, because people are having fun doing something that they themselves don’t like. Like @Skinwalker13said, it’s a good gateway drug and gets more people interested in and involved with the subject. And no one has a monopoly on the interest in and involvement with the subject. This is like fans of a previously unsuccessful professional sports team who are complaining about the influx of new fans when the team has a successful season. A lot of the people who go to these things are not able to go out into the deep forest for days…hiking in equipment for miles…. These conventions are how they involve themselves. Also, the two are not mutually exclusive. I am more than capable of rucking equipment in and staying out for days…and I also had a ball at the conference that I just went to. I am not a huge consumer of Bigfoot knickknacks, but I honestly had a good time discussing the topic with like minded people. There was a huge amount of cringe…but, I myself am not everyone’s cup of tea, so who cares? That little old lady who goes to the convention, buys her t-shirt, watches all of the shows…maybe she has a grandkid that she introduces to all this. Maybe that’s the kid who grows up to finally prove the existence of these creatures. Familiar with the concept of ‘for want of a nail’? Maybe that child sized ‘Hide And Seek Champion’ t-shirt is the catalyst that finally settles this whole thing. More people interested in and involved with the subject is a net positive. It may diminish the ‘uniqueness’ of the people Involved in research, but it exposes more people to the possibility of the existence of these creatures. Are we in this to feel like we are a member of some sort of special club? Or are we in this to help find the truth?