Bigfoot hunting season bill introduced (travel, tourism attraction)

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https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/21/oklah...ng-season/

EXCERPTS: Republican Oklahoma State Rep. Justin Humphrey has a plan to beef up tourism by creating an official Bigfoot hunting season. “House Bill 1648 would direct the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Division to promulgate rules establishing the annual dates of the season and creating any necessary specific hunting licenses and fees,” according to a press release shared by Humphrey on Facebook. The post was noted by TMZ in a piece published Thursday.

[...] However, there is a slight catch and he said he doesn’t want people to “actually kill” Bigfoot, just trap and capture the illusive creature. And if by chance someone is able to trap and capture Sasquatch, there could be $25,000 for the first person to do so... (MORE - details)

RELATED (comicbook dot com): Lawmaker Hopes to Introduce "Bigfoot-Hunting Season" in Oklahoma

[Syne]

If only they'd do that in Oregon. Maybe it would get MR out of the house.

[Zinjanthropos]

https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/21/oklah...ng-season/

EXCERPTS: Republican Oklahoma State Rep. Justin Humphrey has a plan to beef up tourism by creating an official Bigfoot hunting season. “House Bill 1648 would direct the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Division to promulgate rules establishing the annual dates of the season and creating any necessary specific hunting licenses and fees,” according to a press release shared by Humphrey on Facebook. The post was noted by TMZ in a piece published Thursday.

[...] However, there is a slight catch and he said he doesn’t want people to “actually kill” Bigfoot, just trap and capture the illusive creature. And if by chance someone is able to trap and capture Sasquatch, there could be $25,000 for the first person to do so... (MORE - details)

RELATED (comicbook dot com): Lawmaker Hopes to Introduce "Bigfoot-Hunting Season" in Oklahoma

Is Bigfoot protected by the constitution or just a big monkey? After all it appears to be a hominid.

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Given the size of Bigfoot, it's essentially like trapping a bear, and a dangerous idea in terms of the applicable devices that would be used that could immobilize or seize other animals, livestock and even unwary people. Even if the requirements standardized a particular contraption deemed somewhat safe (maybe transmitting a signal when a capture was made so _X_ wouldn't die of thirst), there would be idiots who would sidestep such with the intention of claiming the approved method was still employed. OTOH, a jaw trap with teeth might at least be excluded by Cletus and Delmont due to leaving marks, signs of injury. (As if the couple of eastside trailer dopers seriously believed they'd be carting up the real thing to receive a monetary award.)

Needless to say, having otherwise gone with a "kill" hunting season would especially be fraught with disaster. Given the high probability of Bigfoot being mythical, humans and upright black bears are thereby all that's available to fit the shape and profile of the intended target.

[Syne]

Is Bigfoot protected by the constitution or just a big monkey? After all it appears to be a hominid.

Gotta catch one to find out.

[Zinjanthropos]

Given the size of Bigfoot, it's essentially like trapping a bear, and a dangerous idea in terms of the applicable devices that would be used that could immobilize or seize other animals, livestock and even unwary people. Even if the requirements standardized a particular contraption deemed somewhat safe (maybe transmitting a signal when a capture was made so _X_ wouldn't die of thirst), there would be idiots who would sidestep such with the intention of claiming the approved method was still employed. OTOH, a jaw trap with teeth might at least be excluded by Cletus and Delmont due to leaving marks, signs of injury. (As if the couple of eastside trailer dopers seriously believed they'd be carting up the real thing to receive a monetary award.)

Needless to say, having otherwise gone with a "kill" hunting season would especially be fraught with disaster. Given the high probability of Bigfoot being mythical, humans and upright black bears are thereby all that's available to fit the shape and profile of the intended target.

For a critter that has been spotted by many hunters over the years, Bigfoot’s been extremely lucky thanks to some of the poorest marksmanship in firearms history. Also for some unknown reason photographers have been unable to manage a clear Kodak moment despite the most modern of equipment. How long can this ineptitude streak continue?

[Yazata]

Is Bigfoot protected by the constitution or just a big monkey? After all it appears to be a hominid.

If hominids qualify as human, then they would seemingly have the same legal status as the American Indians and killing one would be murder. Even capturing one might qualify as kidnapping.

It's an interesting legal and philosophical question.

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For a critter that has been spotted by many hunters over the years, Bigfoot’s been extremely lucky thanks to some of the poorest marksmanship in firearms history. Also for some unknown reason photographers have been unable to manage a clear Kodak moment despite the most modern of equipment. How long can this ineptitude streak continue?

If these are animals that live in the woods, we would expect to stumble across a dead one occasionally. Yet nobody that I know of has ever produced a biological specimen.

I remain very doubtful of their reality and am more inclined to think of them as folklore. They aren't entirely impossible though, however unlikely they might be.

[Zinjanthropos]

Is Bigfoot protected by the constitution or just a big monkey? After all it appears to be a hominid.

If hominids qualify as human, then they would seemingly have the same legal status as the American Indians and killing one would be murder. Even capturing one might qualify as kidnapping.

It's an interesting legal and philosophical question.

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Apparently it is in Native American folklore too. If Bigfoot does qualify as human then will that make every honoured treaty regarding land rights null & void since American/Canadian soil would technically be no longer aboriginal land. Would Native Americans then have to rely on science and DNA tracing to establish ownership? It might be in the best interest of aboriginals to call Sasquatch a hoax, remove it from their culture, deny investigators permission to use their land for discovery and lobby against any laws permitting hunting or capture.

[C C]

Is Bigfoot protected by the constitution or just a big monkey? After all it appears to be a hominid.

If hominids qualify as human, then they would seemingly have the same legal status as the American Indians and killing one would be murder. Even capturing one might qualify as kidnapping.

It's an interesting legal and philosophical question.

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Apparently it is in Native American folklore too. If Bigfoot does qualify as human then will that make every honoured treaty regarding land rights null & void since American/Canadian soil would technically be no longer aboriginal land. Would Native Americans then have to rely on science and DNA tracing to establish ownership? It might be in the best interest of aboriginals to call Sasquatch a hoax, remove it from their culture, deny investigators permission to use their land for discovery and lobby against any laws permitting hunting or capture.

Just as chupacabra turned out to be a distinguishing synonym for coyotes afflicted with mange, I suspect Sasquatch served as a similar label for sightings of upright bears suffering from more patchy bouts of skin disease. Indigenous people just need to clarify that, then ensure ursine trophy hunting by outsiders remains illegal on tribal lands.

The opposite of sarcoptic hair loss producing a species misconception would be hypertrichosis getting a person construed as a werewolf. Or possibly even an alternative route for yielding Bigfoot sightings, should the individual be romping au naturel in his sylvan refuge: Petrus Gonsalvus as the "man of the woods".

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There's a dystopian novel to be made of of playing the Sasquatch for a day (or a week) ..