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Canada Man Sues to Have Sasquatch Declared "Real"

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday October 31 2017, @09:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the bigfoot-in-mouth dept.

Appalbarry writes:

CBC News reports that a BC man is taking the provincial government to court to force them to acknowledge that sasquatchs, also known as Bigfoot, are real animals.

Todd Standing filed a civil lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court earlier this month, alleging the B.C. government is in "dereliction of duty" because it won't recognize his efforts and evidence, which he says prove the Sasquatch exists....Standing argues that the Sasquatch has a right to be recognized as a distinct and protected species.

Standing says, "When a judge sits down with me and realizes what I have and who's with me — this is going to happen... It's no joke, I'm coming with PhDs, professors, police officers, the best in the world ... this is the real deal, the evidence is here."

There's no word whether the sasquatch in question is named "Harry".

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by bob_super on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:47PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:47PM (#590259)

    Adam and Jaime: "Plausible".

    Technically, a judge with a sense of humour could declare that the myth is real.
    But it would be a lot simpler to just ask a court in the USA to declare BigFoot Belief to be a religion. It's sustained by the same amount of proof as most major ones, and definitely more plausible than Scientology.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @11:09PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @11:09PM (#590266)

    definitely more plausible than Scientology

    But, admittedly, that is a very low bar. A very, very low bar.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday October 31 2017, @11:19PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday October 31 2017, @11:19PM (#590271)

      As far as bars are concerned, this one's in the basement, and it's been lowered to comply with accessibility rules for drunk handicapped hobbits.