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Old 11-March-2008, 02:23 AM
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Hunter's Stealth - Cam allegedly catches Biggie on film.


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After seeing the video, all I can say is:
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Spam??? Unless you've got a more specific URL.

Don't see anything on there except product info...
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Spam??? Unless you've got a more specific URL.

Don't see anything on there except product info...
See the Flash video? "Easton bowhunting TV"? Labeled "Unusual footage caught on stealth cam"?

Don't know if it's worth a look. It's nine frames of interesting content, starting with half a figure on the edge, moving off screen. Could easily be a person in an ape suit.

JREF discussion topic: Another Bigfoot video
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But this caught my eye:

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Episode 11 — Illnois Rutting Whitetails
The Illinois rut is whitetail hunting at its best. Join host Fred Eichler in his treestand while he waits for a chance at an Illinois trophy. The buck appears, but does Fred get the opportunity to take him?
I'm so excited...
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Don't know if it's worth a look.
At least it's relatively short (<1min), so it didn't waste too much of my time.
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It's nine frames of interesting content, starting with half a figure on the edge, moving off screen. Could easily be a person in an ape suit.
Yep... and they didn't catch him (her?) entering the frame, and the sun was directly into the camera. Sounds fishy to me.
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Did they use this kind of tape to catch him?
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Same old bigfoot caught on camera tricks. Why don't we ever see a bigfoot image that is clear, that shows them without camera distortion? Fleeting and blurry images, same as the ufo and lake monster images. I wonder why?
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Spam??? Unless you've got a more specific URL.

Don't see anything on there except product info...
I'm guessing that like me you have java script disabled by default on new sites.
I also saw nothing, until I enabled javascript.

It's basically 9 frames of a guy moving off-camera while wearing a jacket with the hood up, taken from behind.
With <cue scary music>commentary to make you think there's something special there</stop scary music>.
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Not trying to SPAM, guys. Just thought it was a neat little bit of weirdness to share with you guys.
And FYI, I'm not entirely sold on the existence of Bigfoot. It's hard to believe a 500-lb primate is lurking on the fringes of our society, yet remains unseen -- except for fuzzy film and questionable eyewitness accts.
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Same old bigfoot caught on camera tricks. Why don't we ever see a bigfoot image that is clear, that shows them without camera distortion? Fleeting and blurry images, same as the ufo and lake monster images. I wonder why?
"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. Which makes him even scarier. Run for your lives, there's a big blurry monster coming your way!" -(badly quoted) Mitch Hedberg.
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"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem...
See? More evolution... He adapted to his blurry environment.
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"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem...
Agreed. It's like the enhanced camouflage of 'The Predator', except his is organic. He has chromatophores that help him alter his appearance. Look! Is that Biggie, or a moss-covered mangrove? Is that Biggie? Looks more like a bear with mange, to me.
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See? More evolution... He adapted to his blurry environment.
Yes, its an evolutionary adoption to fines from the FCC because of showing inappropriate bare skin (fur) on TV.
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It's like if the site really wanted to do their best for the study of this fabled creature, for the sake of science, conservation, and perhaps a great hunting season and many tasty bigfoot steaks, they would make their highest-resolution video images available to all, along with the best still images they could muster, and all data concerning the event. Let it be studied.

However, so-doing might conflict with their more obvious primary purpose of drawing the greatest number of eyeballs to their site for the benefit of them and their sponsors.

I think they did their best with the material they had to work with, and I wish them much profit.
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Could easily be a person in an ape suit.
Or an ape in a shadow suit.
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Definitive proof re: the elusive Sasquatch.

Enjoy.
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That's the second time this week that you used that video in a context that I don't get.
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That's the second time this week that you used that video in a context that I don't get.
You've been rickrolled twice? How many times does it take?

Encylopedia Dramatica: Rickroll (Warning: some adult language)

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To Rickroll is to intentionally misdirect one to a video of "Never Gonna Give You Up" from one-hit-wonder 80's pop icon Rick Astley. This tactic gets its name in part from the duckroll [...]
You don't wanna be duckrolled either. Or, rolled at all in any way.
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"I think Bigfoot is blurry
That reminds me of a Rocky and Bullwinkle episode, where Rocky's goggles are all foggy:

Rocky: Bullwinkle, is that you? You look all fuzzy.

Bullwinkle: Let's face it Rock, I am fuzzy.
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That reminds me of a Rocky and Bullwinkle episode...
I was thinking this scene from Futurama.

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Narrator: "Bigfoot populations require vast amounts of land to remain elusive in. They typically dwell just behind rocks but are also sometimes playful bounding into thick fogs and out of focus areas

Narrator:"In the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest dwells the strange and beautiful creature known as Bigfoot perhaps"

Fry:"That proves it!" (edit)
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By the way, you're not the only one who got rickrolled! The others simply didn't admit it!
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Oh my, the Rickroll has made a comeback.

At least DyerWolf used the polite YouTube version. More aggressive Rickrollings will combine it with a browser hijack to open dozens of new browser windows, all playing that video.
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...By the way, you're not the only one who got rickrolled! The others simply didn't admit it!
And now that I know what it is... I (and probably others) just don't care.
Kind of like a whoopie cushion. The first 5 thousand times may have been funny, but...
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I thought it was going to be an ad for one of those traps made of sticky tape; a really big one that could hold a Bigfoot in place.
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Hahahahahahahahahaha!
I am really afraid of Bigfoot. I don't know why, but I am.
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Hahahahahahahahahaha!
I am really afraid of Bigfoot. I don't know why, but I am.
Even after seeing this silly video?
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LA Times blogs :: Web Scout: Rick Astley, king of the 'Rickroll,' talks about his song's second coming

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Over the last year or so, Astley has watched with puzzled amazement as “Never Gonna Give You Up” has been mocked, celebrated, remixed and reprised, its original music video viewed millions of times on YouTube, all by a generation that could barely swallow its Gerber carrots when the song first topped the pop charts.
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That whole scientology bit was quite out of context. Who sprung what on who?
Looks like somebody just taking advantage of a press opportunity, not an actual Rickroll.
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Looks like Soupy Sales doing Black Tooth.
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