Friday, May 25, 2007 . 5/25/2007
Endangered Species Protection Sought for BigfootCOMMENTARY
Recently, Mike Lake, a Canadian member of parliament from Edmonton, Alberta, agreed to introduce a petition that called for Bigfoot to be protected under the Canadian version of the endangered species act.
Lake presented to the House of Commons a petition that stated, “The debate over (Bigfoot’s) existence is moot in the circumstance of their tenuous hold on merely existing. Therefore, the petitioners request the House of Commons to establish immediate, comprehensive legislation to affect immediate protection of Bigfoot.”
The man behind the petition was a Bigfoot enthusiast named Todd Standing, who claims to have definitive proof of Bigfoot but is withholding it until protection for the alleged animals is in place. “When I get species protection for them nationwide, I will make my findings public and I will take this out of the realm of mythology. Bigfoot is real,” Standing said.
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Uh, okay.. how stupid is that? Protection for an animal that probably doesn't even exist? What's funny (if not stupid) is the guy who says, apparently without a doubt, that this Bigfoot exists. It's almost as bad as people who say this about ghosts or even a god, but at least they don't go out wanting to protect these things that aren't even there.
And sure, Bigfoot could very well exist, and we just haven't discovered it yet. But to just assume it does and then want endangered species protection for it is just absurd.
Furthermore, this guy, Standing, claims to have proof Bigfoot exists but won't show it until the act for protecting it is in place? Why is that? You can't expect an animal with no proof that it exists to be protected! Perhaps he knows that his "proof" isn't going to cut it, but wouldn't trying to put Bigfoot on the endangered species protection act be moot, then? 0 Comments - Post/view comments
