>Uh, yeah....looks like this is probably going to be a hoax....that picture >on the left is....well...less than convincing: > >http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/us/15bigfoot.html?em >
Confirmed as a hoax http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/clayton/stories/2008/08/19/bigfoot_hoax.html http://antiwrap.com/x48ac1d1b20a76 Bigfootâs body a hoax, California site reveals And the Clayton County Police officer has lost his job By BOB KEEFE Cox News Service Tuesday, August 19, 2008 Can you believe it? Georgiaâs âBigfootâ was just a big hoax. The body of a supposed ape-man found in the North Georgia mountains was nothing but an empty rubber monkey suit embedded in ice, according to California Bigfoot enthusiasts who finally got a chance to examine it last weekend. [Post a comment on this story below.] The two Atlanta men who stood up at a news conference in California last week and tried to convince the world they had found Bigfoot now apparently canât be located â just like the real Bigfoot. Calls to Matthew Whitton, a Clayton County police officer â make that former police officer â and his car salesman buddy Rick Dyer werenât returned Tuesday. The answering machine on a âtip lineâ connected to the pairâs Web site, which still advertises $499 Bigfoot âexpeditions,â says theyâre still out searching for Sasquatch â as well as leprechauns, dinosaurs, unicorns, Jimmy Hoffa and Elvis. Searching for Bigfoot Inc., the California outfit that paid an undisclosed sum to Whitton and Dyer for rights to their story and their find, says the pair checked out of the hotel where they had been put up over the weekend. According to a news release on Searching for Bigfootâs Web site, the whole scam unraveled when a block of ice containing the âbodyâ melted over the weekend. Whitton and Dyer later confessed that it was just a costume, according to the release. Why the two Georgians contrived the cross-country con isnât clear. What is certain is that Whitton, 28, on medical leave after being shot in the wrist by a robbery suspect earlier this year, wonât be going back to work at the Clayton County Police Department. As soon as he heard Whittonâs Bigfoot was a big fake, âI terminated him,â said Police Chief Jeffrey Turner said Tuesday. âHeâs disgraced himself, heâs an embarrassment to the Clayton County Police Department, his credibility and integrity as an officer is gone, and I have no use for him,â Turner said. âHis behavior is unbecoming of that of a police officer.â âThis turn of events from hero to someone who defrauds a nation is just baffling. I donât know how he got from one point to the other,â Turner said. The chief said he wants to send Whitton his termination paperwork and get his uniforms back. However, he said, âWe havenât been able to get in touch with him.â Kathy Jefcoats of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution contributed to this article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266219 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
