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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2007 11:27:43 GMT -5
Manitoba Mounties nab Whiteshell 'sasquatch' Teen in gorilla mask frightened campers for two years Last Updated: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 | 5:20 PM CT CBC News Mounties in eastern Manitoba have nabbed a strange, hairy monster that has been stalking campgrounds in and around the Whiteshell Provincial Park for the past two summers. Police received the call around midnight on July 30 from a woman who had been startled by the beastly creature while camping at Pinawa, about 90 kilometres east of Winnipeg. "This was further to about 10 calls we had last year of the same incident in the Whiteshell Provincial Park, so the members were aware of the type of person we were looking for," Staff Sgt. Glen Reitlo told CBC News Wednesday. "A couple of our members attended and ended up finding the sasquatch." The creature turned out to be an 18-year-old Winnipeg man wearing a hairy gorilla mask, which Reitlo described as "ugly" and "scary." "Something like that at midnight would scare someone," he said. "When he was confronted by not only the police, but the person who he scared, he admitted that he was the person who had been responsible for the last year and a half," Reitlo said. Reitlo said the man was not intoxicated when nabbed by officers; he apparently had been camping in the area over the past two summers and simply enjoyed the prank. His victims were less impressed. The woman who complained gave the man quite a tongue-lashing, Reitlo said. "He was pretty meek and mild at the end of it … he definitely learned his lesson, that's for sure." No charges have been laid. www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/08/15/sasquatch.html
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2007 11:31:25 GMT -5
charges such as "disturbing the peace" should atleast be laid since there's no laws against impersonating a sasquatch!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2008 15:48:53 GMT -5
I think we all have a little prankster in all of us. I believe this explains most of the Sasquatch hoaxes out there. Just someone having a little fun. Story telling and embellishing experiences are probably more common than we might expect.
In light of possibly proving the existence of Sasquatch I actually like hoaxes to an extent. Hoaxing makes for a great contrast with real evidence. This contrast gives greater meaning to some evidence of Sasquatch showing how hard it is to hoax well. The Patterson Gimlin film is a great example of this. Even now decades later it's very difficult to replicate that film with today's technology, especially with a limited budget.
What becomes clear looking into the spectrum of Physical Sasquatch evidence the hoaxes tend to stick out and make good contrast to other very compelling evidences.
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