OT - Sad news

[evildallas]

CNN has a report that 2 guys from Georgia have found the dead body of Bigfoot and will unveil it on Monday.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/14/bigfoot.body/index.html

I find the news sad because 1) At 7'7" 500 lbs, it means the possible backup C free agency pool has further dwindled 2) I remember all the Bigfoot talk from my youth and this is another sign of my getting old and 3) that the Bigfoot searchers come from Georgia (like we need any more press like this, we already had the Waffle House Wedding).

[evildallas]

As expected the reports of this being a hoax are coming in. It's the most press "Bigfoot" has gotten in years. I'm still saddened that the "Bigfoot hunting enthusiasts" come from Georgia. Not surprised mind you, just saddened.

[HMFFL]

Saw this on Earthfiles.com before it actually hit the local papers. It was a pretty interesting story when I first read it, but reality hurts, and now the search will only continue for one even stronger.

[lethalweapon3]

It's been fun watching this little circus develop for the last couple o' months. Most fun since the days of Geraldo running to anyone who'll listen about "Al Capone's Vault".

One guy's a Clayton County Police Officer (I hear y'all snickering, cut it out!) on medical leave after getting shot while on-duty. The other's a tow truck driver. Clayton News Daily has been following this for awhile, including today's article of their latest adventures with self-proclaimed Bigfoot expert Tom Biscardi.

http://www.news-daily.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=24864&SectionID=2&SubSectionID=&S=1

"Do you think these fellows would come this far and put their reputations and their jobs on the line, if they didn't have what they say they have?" Biscardi said. At the end of Friday's press conference in California, however, that claim -- that this was all too crazy to be a con -- seemed to be the strongest "evidence" the three men had.


As an aside, I think I once bought that ape head they show pictured in their freezer... for Halloween... at Spencer's Gifts at the mall...


Loren Coleman, the author of a number of Bigfoot books, who has closely followed Biscardi and watched what he has skeptically called the "Georgia Gorilla" discovery, described the press conference as a carnival show. "Biscardi is a Las Vegas promoter and a showman, and he's doing it again," Coleman said. "That's what he's really good at. It's like, 'Would you like to come into my tent? I'll show you this one picture. Isn't that interesting? Pay me to see more.'"

The three men claimed there will be an autopsy next week, and more research results coming soon. The Associated Press reported that the 45-minute press conference was attended by several hundred skeptical journalists and a man in a Chewbacca suit.

When Biscardi was asked how much money he hoped to make off the Bigfoot body, he said, "As much as I possibly can." The man reportedly attempted to raise $1.5 million for a Bigfoot hunting expedition in 2004, claimed to have captured a live one in 2005, when he started selling pay-per-view subscriptions on his web site, and then, backed out with a claim he had been hoaxed by "a crazy lady."

From about a month ago:

http://www.news-daily.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=24626&SectionID=2&SubSectionID=&S=1

Dyer said he and Whitton plan to sell the Bigfoot body and make a lot of money.

"As of right now," he said, "we've been offered a million bucks for it, from a very credible source. But we'll make 10 times that. This will change history forever."

Don King had it right. "ONLY in America!"

~lw3

[lethalweapon3]

Billy Knight declined to offer the 7' 7" Bigfoot a contract in 2004, saying he prefers his Bigfeet to be 6' 9".



~iyf

[evildallas]

Funny, but I suspect the Hawks actually drafted this Bigfoot back in 96. I mean when was the last time someone saw Priest Lauderdale? Maybe he let himself go a little.

[lethalweapon3]

Funny, but I suspect the Hawks actually drafted this Bigfoot back in 96. I mean when was the last time someone saw Priest Lauderdale? Maybe he let himself go a little.

So odd, I was gettin ready to do a "Milk Carton" piece on the High Priest. For whatever it's worth, he's killin it over in Saudi Arabia. Apparently he returned recently to Saudi Arabia's version of Maccabi (Al-Ittahad Jeddah, teaming up with Mr. Anthem, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf) after a brief spell in Bulgaria, and now plays for Al-Hilal.

Have Height, Will Travel:
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=8&section ... m=3&y=2007

(Is that GT's 'Ishmail Mohammed' who's his teammate??)
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=8&section ... m=4&y=2008

~lw3

[evildallas]

Thanks, that answer that lingering question about Priest. I can't help but wonder if we've been placed on a DHS watch list for checking out basketball on the Arab News site though?

If Priest is alive and well and tearing it up in Saudi Arabia, then he can't be the alleged Bigfoot. Anyone seen George Muresan of late?

[lethalweapon3]

My Giant, the Fragrance Model is takin y'all to school. "You don't have to go to camp. I'm bringing camp right to you."

http://www.giantbasketball.com/

Last year Ol' Gheorghe teamed up with Sun Ming Ming (7-foot-9) for what the ABA billed as "the tallest lineup in pro basketball history." The point guard was some 6-foot-8 guy. Team Nosebleed prevailed... by four points (really one point, but some guard hit a three at the buzzer).

~lw3

[lethalweapon3]

"Do you think these fellows would come this far and put their reputations and their jobs on the line, if they didn't have what they say they have?"

Well, I suppose we got the answer to that question.

I'm shocked! Shocked, I say!
Did I call it on Spencer's Gifts store or what?

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/clayton/stories/2008/08/19/bigfoot_hoax.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

The two Atlanta men who stood up at a news conference in California last week and tried to convince the world they had found Bigfoot now apparently can’t be located — just like the real Bigfoot.

...the whole scam unraveled when a block of ice containing the “body” melted over the weekend. Whitton and Dyer later confessed that it was just a costume, according to the release. Why the two Georgians contrived the cross-country con isn’t clear. What is certain is that Whitton, 28, on medical leave after being shot in the wrist by a robbery suspect earlier this year, won’t be going back to work at the Clayton County Police Department.

As soon as he heard Whitton’s Bigfoot was a big fake, “I terminated him,” said Police Chief Jeffrey Turner said Tuesday.

(Quoth the police chief who can't even stop his own son from robbing people...)

“He’s disgraced himself, he’s an embarrassment to the Clayton County Police Department, his credibility and integrity as an officer is gone, and I have no use for him,” Turner said. “His behavior is unbecoming of that of a police officer.”

I'd check Zoo Atlanta for two costumed guys in the gorilla cage.
Maybe dude can go join his pal in the tow truck business.

~lw3