Comments on: Bigfoot hoaxer killed

By: blueelm

blueelm — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:46:00 +0000

I feel like I just watched an episode of Twin Peaks.

By: Mitchell Glaser

Mitchell Glaser — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:14:00 +0000

It wasn’t a bigfoot suit, it was a suit that was made for the specific purpose of keeping people from seeing you, and it worked! Before you get up on your grumpy high horse you might consider that for a moment.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:50:00 +0000

I’m gonna be just a bit of a troll here

Just a bit? I think that your arithmetic is off.

By: Jon Winchester

Jon Winchester — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:47:00 +0000

I’m gonna be just a bit of a troll here, and take a moment to ponder the nature of respect for the dead here at boingboing (and perhaps in our culture).

Making fun of this guy who died playing a dumb practical joke is apparently all good fun. Yet not so long ago my comment criticizing Andy Irons for undertaking international travel with a dangerous communicable disease (dengue) was deleted. Is it because he was famous? An athlete? Because surfing is a more respectable hobby than bigfoot hoaxing? Interesting.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:15:00 +0000

He walked out onto a dangerous highway wearing camouflage. I don’t think that it’s victim blaming to point out cause and effect in this situation.

By: otherthings

otherthings — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:56:00 +0000

“And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids…”

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouMeddlingKids

By: GrumpySteen

GrumpySteen — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:34:00 +0000

So, you’ve jumped directly from “police are waiting to get toxicology reports to see if Tenley had been drinking” to “Any drunk who thinks wearing a bigfoot suit and jumping out onto Highway 93 deserved to get whacked.” without the need for anything even remotely resembling proof?

Perhaps you’d like to whack his child as well, since children often behave like their parents. Let the witch hunts begin and to hell with that stupid “innocent until proven guilty” crap!

By: myung lee

myung lee — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:05:00 +0000

so, you dont feel sorry for the guy who died??

By: Lurking_Grue

Lurking_Grue — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:04:00 +0000

Glad I wasn’t the only one.

By: Reimers!

Reimers! — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:26:00 +0000

Anyone think of Harry and the Hendersons after reading this?!

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:53:00 +0000

The goose. The goose. The goose is on fire.

We don’t need no water, let that motherfucker burn.

By: Roger Strong

Roger Strong — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:45:00 +0000

From the August 2002 Alta, Utah, town newsletter (as featured in the Salt Lake Tribune):
”July 14: At 12 p.m., the deputy on duty responded to a report of a man chasing a moose in Albion Basin. It is suspected that this is related to a subsequent report of a moose chasing a man.”

By: Amorette

Amorette — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:38:00 +0000

Highway 93 is two-lane and winds through forests and dips down near Flathead Lake. The scenery is beautiful but the road is deadly. Any drunk who thinks wearing a bigfoot suit and jumping out onto Highway 93 deserved to get whacked but I feel sorry for the young drivers. Yes, 15 is legal to drive because this is a rural state and most kids have been driving farm trucks and tractors and combines since they were 11. Also, the speed limit on most of 93 is 65 mph because it is narrow and runs through country where deer, elk and bears often cross the road.

By: Dav_Daddy

Dav_Daddy — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:14:00 +0000

It sounds like the 15 yr old struck him as… Oh never mind.

By: silkox

silkox — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:09:00 +0000

Wow, you’re not kidding.

10:37 a.m. Someone said that a grass fire started when a goose flew into a power line, caught fire, and fell to the ground.

By: awjt

awjt — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:52:00 +0000

It serves him right. That’s an ugly suit.

By: ChicagoD

ChicagoD — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:47:00 +0000

There’s also a due process element to having numeric speed limits. “Reasonable and prudent” is not a predictable standard, whereas 75 m.p.h. is something people can predict and adjust to. The idea is that without predictability there is no limit on the police power.

By: zartan

zartan — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:35:00 +0000

Ah, Kalispell.

This post is a great excuse for me to link to the Flathead Beacon police blotter, truly one of the most sublimely eccentric things I’ve ever read (which is saying a lot):

http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/policeblotter/

Now that I think of it, boingboing should post the police blotter as a separate item. It is truly, truly awesome. Sample:

9:43 a.m. A Somers man believes that his drunken neighbor vomited in his driveway and looted his wife’s vehicle.8:15 p.m. Dueling neighbor’s screamed at one another about dog beatings, kids, a stout woman’s reckless driving, and an disobedient teenager. 9:28 p.m. Someone saw a transient holding a rope on Highway 2 East.

By: Jerril

Jerril — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:30:00 +0000

We’ve got similar problems in most of Canada; the driving age in Ontario is 16, but again it’s a graduated permit system. There’s all kinds of exemptions in the graduated permit rules for various rural highways because they’re the only way to get anywhere if you live up country.

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:29:00 +0000

Keep an eye open for a mini-squatch

By: EvilSpirit

EvilSpirit — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:49:00 +0000

It’s true that you can get a learner’s license at 14½, but that only allows you to drive under the supervision of an adult with your parent or guardian’s permission.

Six months after holding *that* license (so, no younger than 15), you can get a restricted license that limits the passengers you can carry and the times and purposes for which you can drive.

The reason for all of this, keep in mind, is that things are really far apart in Montana. If you’ve never been to the rural West, you really have no idea.

By: glace neuf

glace neuf — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:01:00 +0000

that fact, that the first person was a 15-year-old, struck me as odd too. pretty messed up all around

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:34:00 +0000

I blame all those Jack Links commercials for this.

By: mat catastrophe

mat catastrophe — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:57:00 +0000

Insert obligatory “you don’t know the first thing about evolutionary biology” here.

By: Scratcheee

Scratcheee — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:43:00 +0000

Right. That’s what they want us to believe.

By: ackpht

ackpht — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:05:00 +0000

Too many factors left unspecified in these “reports” to place blame one way or the other. Presumably the police will perform a proper investigation.

Novel way to make your exit, though.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:58:00 +0000

that is true of life in general

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:55:00 +0000

Oh, there will be a sequel…

By: Just_Ok

Just_Ok — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:23:00 +0000

Yah, a comment like that is totally abominable

By: Targe

Targe — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:37:00 +0000

The first driver who “couldn’t get out of the way” was a 15-year-old.

Looks like in Montana you can start off driving at 14 and a half years… he was stupid to be walking on a highway in a camo suit, but I can’t help but think that an inexperienced driver may have made the situation worse :(