Comments on: Exclusive: Chinese Release More on Johor Pix

By: Jeremy_Wells

Jeremy_Wells — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:42:19 +0000

ok, now I see… yeah, it’s no “Pepsi brings your dead ancestors back to life” but those translations are a booger sometimes

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:14:53 +0000

JW, as often happens with Sean Ang’s or Vincent Chow’s or the Malayasian or the Chinese media’s harshly constructed sentences, I think you are misreading the meaning here.

I believe what is being said is that “If Vincent Chow or Sean Ang, per a request of theirs, are allowed to do so by the Johor government, they would invite government-sanctioned experts and/or officials to examine the photographs.”

Bottomline, it appears, Chow can show the photos to whomever he wants. He obviously is discriminating against some people, but showing the photographs to others, despite protests against their release. Why, for example, are government officials and Sean Ang shown the photos and readers of Cryptomundo not?

For the latest on the composite of what one of the photos may look like.

By: Jeremy_Wells

Jeremy_Wells — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:05:57 +0000

“If allowed by the state government, Sean would invite experts to examine the pictures.”

So the state is refusing to allow the photos to be released?

By: Sky King

Sky King — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:25:58 +0000

Enough of this monkey business! I know a carny tease when I see one…

HEY RUBE!!

By: twblack

twblack — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:15:07 +0000

Was there a sceen in 2001 of one sitting down holding something? Maybe not but anyway I agree with the rest we should ignore Chow and Ang until they release a photo.

By: jjames1

jjames1 — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:00:27 +0000

Dudlow:

I believe you mean “guerilla” fighters. Big difference from “gorilla fighters!”

These alleged photographers are “former” guerillas, anyway. They’re not currently fighting anything or anyone.

By: charlie23

charlie23 — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:12:49 +0000

The media should ignore Chow unless he publicises his “proof”. It’s July already and most of us have enough hot air.

By: thom_powell

thom_powell — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:08:51 +0000

I encourage all to pay particular attention to the descriptions of the creatures’ intelligence that is offered by the witnesses in the above article. They’re saying pretty plainly that they’re not apes. Still worse, they’re describing them precisely the same way as did that idiot did who wrote “The Locals”.
best to all,
thom p.

By: Dudlow

Dudlow — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:22:38 +0000

I can only hope Chow and Chin’s motives are compassionate and protective of the Johor Hantu Jarang Gigi. We all know how wantonly predatorial men can be when offered a million dollar prize for bringing in the first verifiable corpse.

I can imagine these two scientists having to walk a very fine diplomatic line. On one hand they must deal with the gorilla fighters who took the pix and whose political cause would probably benefit immensely from a million dollar cash injection. Now they must surely know the potential value of the pix they took.

Apparently these gorilla fighters would already know just where to bag a fine specimen or two to top up their revolutionary revenue stream.

On the other hand there are the independent carpetbaggers who, for the right money, could probably hire just about anyone among the locals to lead them to their quarry and an appropriate kill shot. Trinkets anyone?

Being ‘discovered’ means having to somehow survive the gauntlet of opportunists who want the pictures, the movies and broadcast rights, the corpses, the DNA and, finally, the steel cages to imprison and display them in. And we haven’t even gotten to the actual scientific interests yet.

By: apiraymond

apiraymond — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:14:36 +0000

Equally disturbing is that Wei Poh Chin from the Johore Wildlife Protection Society have earlier in Jan wanted to encourage more tourists to look for Bigfoot.

Quote from report :

Wei Poh Chin explained that those spots where Bigfoot are sighted will become tourist hotspots, and the wooden huts left over by the logging company can be resting points. So far they has helped Johor Nature Park trained up to 60 guides preparing to lead tourists into the forest to find Bigfoot.

Johor Malaysia Nature Society also propose that the government investigate the Bigfoot, at the same time they can imitate the Loch Ness Case to incite the interest of the world to Johor Bigfoot, so that Johor Nature Park can become a global biodiversity tourist hotspot.

It is disturbing that these same gentleman are now trying to “protect” Bigfoot when they stirred up the media attention and even encourage tourists to look for it in the first place.