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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".
(Score: 2) by jimtheowl on Wednesday November 01 2017, @05:31AM
It does sound like a joke. Some people believe that they are right simply because they decided that they are. It seems that the only next step they ever consider is to force others to adopt their mindset.
"In 2014, Standing claimed to have found a Sasquatch hair, but a lab that studied it said it was human hair, or that of another species."
That is more than a little vague as far as reporting goes, but I think that what they want to say is that every time a sample was submitted for analysis, it ended up being from human origin or identified with a 100% match to a known animal.
Perhaps they are talking about this:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4100498/ [nih.gov]
Nevertheless, he rejects those conclusions because he doesn't like them.
All he would need to do is produce hair samples from the real deal and that would be the end of that discussion, but I think that he is in for the attention and publicity.