ryanj
Will the "Rickmat" Bigfoot body be a hoax?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bigfoot;_ylt=AvW.i1NDjXrslFQ8xzwpeJftiBIF
DNA evidence proves that body which DNA evidence was taken from was not "bigfoot" but was a known creature.
Background:
So what's the claim: The corpse of a "male" bigfoot weighs in at 500lb. In the photos released by Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton it appears the creature has been decapitated. It's said to be seven feet seven inches, red-haired and flat-footed. Not only did the hunters drag a body back, but apparently they've got video tape footage of Rickmat's friends in the woods and "DNA" evidence....
Don't get your hopes up though most "experts" on Bigfoot aren't holding their breath. For one, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton have a website selling Rickmat merchandise which suspiciously appeared right after they announced their find. The public can also take a guided tours in the footsteps of Rickmat for only $499 a time!
Some have suggested the body in the photograph is just a Halloween costume, and one press official said “It’s smelling to high heaven like a hoax.”
All we can do now is anxiously await the "press conference...."
Rickmat Website
Best article on Rickmat so far
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source. If the media reports the Rickmat body as a hoax we settle as yes.
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ryanj ryanj: The Press Conference Has Been Scheduled For 12 PM PDT 
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: Well. um.. I have no idea how you're going to settle this. But here's an article about it.
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/366044410/bigfoot-hunters.html
chull
: Hoax- 'Bigfoot' fails DNA tests- 96% chance from an opossum.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26244241/
letmewinplees: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bigfoot;_ylt=AvW.i1NDjXrslFQ8xzwpeJftiBIF ryanj: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bigfoot;_ylt=AvW.i1NDjXrslFQ8xzwpeJftiBIF
DNA evidence proves that body which DNA evidence was taken from was not "bigfoot" but was a known creature.
Suspend date: Fri 15th Aug 2008 11am PST
Settlement date: Mon 18th Aug 2008 5:28pm PST
Prediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Fri 15th Aug 2008 11am PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled details 
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http://www.hubdub.com/m9109/Will_the_existence_of_Bigfoot_be_confirmed_by_science_in_2008
San Francisco Chronicle
(08-15) 15:25 PDT Palo Alto -- Irrefutable evidence came to Palo Alto on Friday.
"It was brown and fuzzy and looked very much like irrefutable evidence of a man in a gorilla suit.
"But it wasn't, said two Georgia hikers in baseball caps who rented a hotel meeting room to tell the world that they had found the dead body of the creature known as Bigfoot...
"But the hikers did present three photographs of their find. The clearest one looked like a man in a gorilla suit.
"The fuzziest one - the one that looked like a banana inside a tortilla - depicted what Whitton said was Bigfoot's jaw. That photograph was airtight proof of the existence of something that looked like a banana inside a tortilla. ..."
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/15/BAFN12C0SB.DTL>
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