Comments on: Nessie Attack Publicity Stunt

By: jamesrav

jamesrav — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:16:01 +0000

‘Nessie ‘ has become a well known brand, which is every advertisers goal. I’m sure if you asked the people involved they’d say “heh, it’s just harmless fun”. The more i see the discredited photo at the start of a LNM article, the sadder i feel about the whole nessie affair as potential ‘legitimate science’.

By: Mothmanfan

Mothmanfan — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:08:51 +0000

WOW! Really, if you proved you saw nessie, might as well say everyone has, and say she exists.

The person who thought this plan up must be a strong believer… Or a skeptic who wants to rip money off believers.

By: jules

jules — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:03:26 +0000

Cer - That’s a point that occurred to me early in life.

I have no insurance of any kind.

By: Alligator

Alligator — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:01:04 +0000

A lot of my Scottish friends are really disgusted with what a tourist trap Nessie has become. They advise to stay away from certain areas - not for fear of monsters but because of all the tourists and cheesy souvenir stands, etc. To see the real Scotland, go to one of the other lochs.

By: Ceroill

Ceroill — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:38:07 +0000

Why do you think the insurance industry is so rich and influential? Consider life insurance: In essence they’re betting you that you’ll live long enough to pay out more in premiums than you ever receive in benefits, and you’re betting them you’ll die early.

By: jules

jules — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:31:57 +0000

Now that I think of it - it’s a great business to get into.

Give me money. Then I promise to insure you against an attack by creatures that do not exist.

Sounds like a plan!

By: jules

jules — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:27:45 +0000

Hee hee. Can I get insured against aliens?

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:08:15 +0000

okay then, I say we all get into wet suites and put on scuba gear and swim up underneath everyone participating and at least scare them so bad that they all think they had an encounter–thus bankrupting the insurance company who was stupid enough to go along with. The closest sighting I know that fits any kind of “attack” scenario would be one of the first. I’m thinking of the Priest who saw something large heading towards someone swimming in the lake. Other than that I haven’t heard of any attacks.

By: twblack

twblack — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:21:36 +0000

Well I am a skeptic on lake monsters but I agree this is a going way too far.

By: The_Yardstick

The_Yardstick — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:11:10 +0000

Why would they need a chunk of insurance money for a sighting?

Mental distress?

Idiotic. It’s a joke, of sorts. Not only has the monster not officially been proven to exist (speaking in legalities, not my own beliefs), it hasn’t, as far as I know, been violent towards humans at all.

It’s like everything having to do with the Loch must bring up the monster somehow. It’s for publicity, that’s all, and probably for a bunch of people to fake a “sighting” and try to collect the insurance.

I almost feel bad for that thing, whatever it is–it’s almost worse than Roswell. A genuine event/phenomenon overshadowed by human band wagoning and greed. If it’s a physical creature, I’m torn–I hope it’s caught or proven to exist so that cryptozoologists will be vindicated; but if it’s caught it’ll be in a cage open to tourists and probably die there.

I kind of like the giant eel theory–it can eat the tourists. THEN there’d be cause for insurance.

(Or perhaps I’m just in an angry mood tonight. That seems logical.)

Whatever. Live long, Nessie. Longer than this nonsense, at least.