The 100gs for the other Canadian video is a joke. It could not be real yet the ramifications of the farce really hurt the independent film makers out there. Now everyone thinks they can get that kind of money.

The stills from this that I have seen look like from a night shot camera in night shot mode with a light source off camera (like a moon or camp lights up high).

P.S.–I suspect this eBayer won the bid on his own auction.

A young spelunker discovering a new insect genus deep in a local cave might deliver ten live specimens to a local University, have the new creature named after her and receive a full scholarship as a reward, enjoy being Hero for a while, marry the University’s Biology Department Head and live happily ever after.

A middle-aged lorry driver catching a glimpse and a blurry snapshot of a supposedly extinct Thylacine in a New Zealand forest while on Holiday with a verboten someone might think twice about revealing the photo and having to explain his activities to the Press and the world.

A somewhat eccentric Brazilian writer driving by a local lake who happens to grab a minute of shaky video of a questionable blob sliding along just beneath the lake’s choppy surface might find his face and his precious video displayed freely across the Internet, his literary history and motivations and fleeting cryptid images ripped asunder in crude jibes, leaving him a bitter and disappointed former researcher.

And a retired California salesman on a fishing trip to a Sierra Nevada lake who stumbles upon a family of Sasquatch living in a secluded canyon, and gets the kind of Video described in my scenario above, might decide to keep it to himself, to protect the creature’s freedom, with little concern for fame, wealth or society’s alleged “need to know” - or he might continue his secret observations for years, taking careful notes and taping hours of everyday Sasquatch activities, then turn it all into a simultaneously released full color coffee-table book and 3-D HD DVD, making a fortune in the process.

Or, they might not.

It just depends.

What would YOU do?

Even when there is hard evidence presented, there can be no doubt frustrating differences in perspective as can be seen with the debate that sprouted concerning the find of the “Hobbits”. You had some that said it was a new type of early hominid while others disputed that and said it was a regular hominid with a genetic condition or microencephaly. Both sides comprised of professionals, yet frustrated with the others’ viewpoint and percieved lack of evidence for their claims.

Not everybody in the scientific community is patting each other on the back, supporting each others hypothesis, and generally working to get to the bottom of things. There can be rivalry, scathing peer review, and conflicting, jealously defended theories. Even in science, there are sometimes pet theories and closely held ideas that some latch onto and are very unwilling to let go of and will go to great lengths to defend even if that may be at the expense of always doing good research and throwing out other plausible ideas. Thankfully this is not always the case, and of course the truth is often eventually sorted out, but it does happen.

Step one, Do not tell anyone. Do not say bigfoot over any cell phone or land telephone line. But you do make as many copies as you can effectively conceal. But do not conceal in a safe deposit box because the government can get into those, any time it wants to. Don’t even think about hiding something in either your attic or your crawlspace, because that is the first place that thieves will look.

If prior to making copies, you foolishly contact the government such as a Native American found out in either North or South Dakota recently, IT WILL BE CONFISCATED! In that case as I recall, the DNR used the flimsy excuse that they needed to make their own copy. Which was the last time that the original with no backup copies, was ever seen.

If you contact an attorney, expect similar treatment. Whatever copies that you give him, will likely be either kept or copied by him for his own use or purposes. The only difference between attorneys and common criminals, is that they are much better at getting around the requirements of the law. You are nobody if you do not have enough cash to have the attorney disbarred, and he now has all your assets.

If you have a close friend that is an attorney, you will likely get better treatment.

You might go to a Bigfoot expert to have it authenticated, but he will want to keep a copy as well. But your property is now effectively worthless. Why? Because he will likely then release it to the public in some fashion, because use of Bigfoot videos for research purposes, whether copyrighted or not, is likely permitted.

Once the researcher releases it, you will have a significant number of either disgruntled believers, disbelievers or anti-bigfooters, that will paint the video as a hoax. There will even be books written about it being a hoax, which is possibly funded by the government out of a secret Federal account.

So that narrows down step two to “quietly obtaining a copyright”.

Step three: Move to Canada. The Feds do not operate there as effectively, and the public is more open minded to Bigfoot than in the United States. You also have a less likely chance that all your email accounts, cell phones and land lines, will now have an illegal wire tap on them.

Then you see about raking in the dinero. Forget about the public good. There is no Bigfoot film that is in the public good, that also scares the heck out of them. Unless of course, the Bigfoot is slamming down brewskies in your living room, with you and him laughing at TV cartoons.

If you stay in the U.S, you can start looking for another job, because you just got fired for scaring the heck out of the public, and had no supporting research to neutralize Bigfoot by humanizing him.

Or you can start looking for another job, because you just got fired for scaring the heck out of the public with a film that has now been painted as a hoax. So you are now a card carrying liar and your dog doesn’t even trust you.

Meanwhile, the lunch money that you got for the video, has been vaporized by frivolous expenditures. Consequently, you are now “living in your van, under the bridge, down by the river”.

Did I fail to mention that the anti-bigfoot attorneys that did not receive the video, have now tied you up in a dozen frivolous lawsuits, each of which will cost you a trailer load of cash, to get out of?

So life is sweet.