I've mulled it over in my mind on what would happen to a sasquatch if it were caught by man..what would happen to it? Would it be sent to a scientific place in secret for study? Would it be sent to a zoo for all to see? Or would it simply be held onto for awhile and then released back into the wild again? I would personally hate for it to be put in a zoo for everyone to stare at it..I don't think it would be fair to the animal, especially since it lived most of its life in the wild just doing what it wants to do..It's a question I've had for a while about what would happen to it..I could imagine the news media if a sass was caught..it would make top headlines for sure I would suspect..a part of me wants it to be made known as to what it truly is and another part of me likes the fact that it's a mystery and it's origin is unsolved..just curious to what would happen to it..

They have been captured before..

& the Goverment took them somewhere !!! :wink:

Naw, they would just jump to the 'other' dimension. :icon_abduct:

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Bobby,

Got any proof that BF has been caught and the government did something with them?

I think it's a good question, Twinkletoes. I had a biology teacher in high school that once said to someone in class after stopping a film about penguins; "they are not cute, they are animals and they are on this planet for our use and until you understand that...." She's a doctor now and I figure she knows her science pretty good but that was my introduction to how much science will always fight anthrompomorphism, applying human traits to animals.
This is the question as I see it (please, members of BFF, correct me if need be). If the creature(s) is (are) caught, what then? Is it an animal to look at in the zoo or our long lost ancestor?
Your question asks a lot of other questions too. Where is it caught? Canada, US? There is enough environmental pressure here (if the find is made public and the appropriate "agencies" are involved) that there would be an outcry but if it happens in the third world or away from the public eye I'm not sure the outcome would be so good for the individual captured.

It's a great question and I had to think about it quite a bit to write this much. I need to chew on it some more

Cheers

Alex

Hi Twinkletoes:

I just thought it would be easier for you to conclude how you would feel about the capture of a BF if you were the one to accomplish it.

I don't know the answer to that question myself if I were the one.

Good question.

DR

No i haven't but i wouldn't be surprised if they did would you ????

Chill out anyway, i said it tongue in cheek with a wink icon after it !!

Sense of humor pleeeeease !! :wink:

How do we know that the goverment hasnt caught one? They know and have some things that you could only imagine.... then again, how do we know they have? We dont

My guess is one will be captured alive in someplace like Maylasia and will die in captivity shortly there after, I think the only Govt. that may be interested would be the U.S. or Japan so a purchase would be made and they would perform all of the required tests on it and I feel they would disclose most of it to the public. Now if one were captured in the states that would be a different story, I dont think it would be put on display probably try to keep it hushed, test it, maybe keep it out of sight or implant a tracking device and release it on Federal land with very little info being released.

Time for everyone to watch the movie "Bigfoot...The Unforgetable Encounter" :popcorn2:

It would depend upon...

*Who caught it. Private individual(s), private corporation, or government agency?

*Where it was caught. Which country? Public land, or private land? Indian reservation? Military property?

*Is it alive, or dead?

*Did it harm anyone? How many people know?

Too many variables.

My GUESS is that if one EVER is caught it will spend the rest of its life being stared at, poked and prodded while being drained of its body fluids. It will be held behind bars until it dies. One of the alphabet agencies would swoop in and relieve who ever had it of their catch. With no compensation or acknowledgement to the group or individual that caught it. So either; #1 shoot it with camera, #2 kill it. Because it's poor life would be miserable from that point on. JMHO

I'm thinking we need to get a lot more photos, videos and other evidence together, to lay the groundwork for getting a live or dead one. This is because to raise any public sentiment against having the body or creature snatched by any agency that wants to poke it's nose in, the public has to be more aware that it's a real creature in the first place. Who's gonna crusade for a mythical creature? So to get it the right treatment, we need clearer pictures and videos first.

Here's how I think I'd go about it. First, no kill or capture, just attempt to habituate a young individual and gain it's trust, over a lonnnng period. Attempt to accustom it to human surroundings, like being inside a house and a vehicle, attempt to get it to wear clothing. Before the arguments start, you can get a chimp, orangutang or gorilla to do that much, and monkeys. You'd need to gain a very good rapport with it. Now, dress him up and attempt to introduce him to the authorities as an undocumented feral child, say his teenage mother must have dropped him in the woods at birth and he got adopted by bears. Attempt to adopt him and gain power of attorney or guardianship, get all the paperwork done, get him a birth certificate, ID. I don't think there will be any question of proving him human, after all, there's nothing that "exists" that's that close it could possibly be, right? So, do this all very very low key, until you have established a human identity for your friend. Now when you have all this, you can go public. Now anybody who wants to take him away, first has to disprove he's human, and with how close their DNA is reported to be from hair etc, you can keep that in the courts for decades. They'd have to challenge your guardianship and everything. If he's "human" he theoretically has got a heck of a lot more rights than if he isn't. I wonder if you could get him native american status in the first place too, that may or may not help, hard to say.

So I figure if you play it that way, forcing the authorities to disprove he's human, and that may mean they blow everything they know, including any previous captures or bodies, there will be a lot better chance of you being able to control access, particularly if you have guardianship or power of attorney, you'd be able to make sure he was treated right. He wouldn't be a specimen, but an ambassador for his species. Of course, if the authorities don't take the bait and leave him alone, saying "of course he can't be anything other than human" then you've got a bit of work to do with authenticating his origins, and getting any interest. But hopefully, you'd be able to get the right primatologists and anthropologists in to visit with him and set the ball rolling in the right circles there.

Well, it's audacious, but it might just work. Would certainly be better treated and maybe publicised than a captured "specimen" which may dissappear more easily.

Flashman

I don't know what would happen to it but I think the 'Weekly World News" publication would be treated in a whole new light!

Right.......and after you get him/her habituated; sign him/her up with the NFL and watch the chips roll in!

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Hey, you never know? I mean they suspect that the goverment has aliens and paranormal stuff! You,never know? :wink:

With all of the technology out there it is very possible that the Goverment has been hiding it from the people. You can never know for sure. :laugh:

Heh, next time you see one then, try and get "them" in a slip, phone the nearest base and complain, see if you can get a "Oh, that must have been a guy in a suit, all our sasquatches are accounted for" :laugh:

Flashman I going to try that the next time I go. That will be funny if he says the same thing. Lol :laugh:

Yea well that would be hilarious.

LOL

got to try it.

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:new_thumbsupsmileyanim:

I think that if a bigfoot were to be captured alive, it should be kept in the public eye as much as possible. This may be detrimental to the individual animal that was captured but better for the population of bigfoots (bigfeet?) as a whole. Like the kill/no kill debate, I think it would be neccessary to sacrifice one to save the rest. Another reason why I think it should be kept in the public eye as much as possible is that it would be harder for the government to try and deny its existence and/or make it "go away". I think that it should be placed at a well known zoo or university and studied by experts to dtermine if its human or an ape. Hopefully the person that captures it has the resources to get it to the academics as soon as possible.

It'll be awesome if a sasquatch were caught but I'm sure the serect people like men in black will get it first.

LOL :laugh: I think they might already have him :laugh: