(02-08-2013, 12:16 AM)Parsons Wrote: I hope it's not real... those things are borderline sentient, so snuffing it out with a rifle for no reason is tantamount to shooting a dolphin or shooting a golden retriever in my book...Well dolphins and dogs are 2D m/b/s (regardless of new-ager's telepathic/empathic fantasies), whereas a "bigfoot" is 3D spirit with 2D m/b. As they relate in the interview, Krantz always maintained you'd have to shoot one in order to prove it existed. He was probably right. So we'll see how it plays out later in the year with new protection laws, or whatever. In the meantime, plenty of science to be conducted and money to be made off of the corpse, including the BBC/Minnow Films documentary “Of Monsters and Men.” apparently.
Apparently, Dyer shot it in the back of the head while the crew was filming:
http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2012/...r-12-2012/