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July 29, 2005

Bigfoot Debunked: Just Fuzzy Bison

What is it with Edmonton? Their golfball-stealing squirrels clearly weren't garnering enough media and tourist attention, so they've fallen back on the age-old myth of Bigfoot. Earlier this month, several Sasquatch "sightings" occured in a town called Teslin in the Yukon, but this time someone gathered fur samples and sent them in for DNA testing. The results, I must say, were less than shocking.

EDMONTON - Perhaps he is still stomping around somewhere, but a DNA test has confirmed that it was not Bigfoot roaming the Yukon earlier this month — it was just a bison.

More at: MSNBC.com: Bison, not Bigfoot, stomped through Canada

As it's the height of tourist season, I suppose I shouldn't sneer too much at this kind of publicity stunt. Let's hope the DNA results haven't killed the economy of the little remote town.

I'm certainly not saying there aren't lots of species yet undiscovered... I just think it's rather fishy that local residents can't tell a buffalo/bison from some sort of walk-upright primate. Thus I must conclude that either they were pulling a stunt or operating under impaired judgement.

It's reminiscent of drunk hunters shooting at John Deere tractors back home.

"Hehheh, I saw a deer!"

Posted by sorsha at July 29, 2005 12:42 PM