I can't believe that people paid this story any mind considering everything going on in the world.
Larry Lyons wrote: >> 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:266229 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
