Mounties find hairy creature that's been spooking Manitoba campers

[snopes]

A hairy creature has been spooking campers in and around Manitoba's Whiteshell Provincial Park for more than a year.

Now, the RCMP say they have finally pinned the culprit down.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/art...iry17-odd.html

[Gayle]

Man, would that ever piss me off. Visions of smacking this guy with a cast iron frying pan. "Are you laughing now? Huh, are you laughing now?"

[quiltsbypam]

That twerp is d***ed lucky nobody had a shotgun.

And alcohol wasn't involved? Too bad he can't be charged with felonious assholery, if nothing else.

[missy_pooh_1997]

What a douchebag.

He said alcohol wasn't a factor in the pranks...

I like how they had to say that. Sort of a, "No, he wasn't stupid because he was drunk, he is just that way 'naturally'".

[callee]

Originally Posted by quiltsbypam

That twerp is d***ed lucky nobody had a shotgun.

it's a provincial park in canada. I'm pretty sure even having a shotgun - never mind using it - would be a crime of a much greater degree than what this twit did.

[Eddylizard]

British tourist with mange.

[Artemis]

To play devil's advocate, is there anything actually illegal about what he did? If he was dressing up as a gorilla and just walking around and people happened to see him...I don't see what's wrong. Knocking on someone's window as a gorilla is creepy, though...

Originally Posted by callee

it's a provincial park in canada. I'm pretty sure even having a shotgun - never mind using it - would be a crime of a much greater degree than what this twit did.

Good point. I guess he was smart enough NOT to do that in a Texas state park.....

[boogers]

Or in Kentucky. In 1980 a guy in Oldham County Ky claimed he'd shot at a "bigfoot" type creature on his porch. The man was sure he hit the bigfoot but it ran off into the night.

[Lady Moon]

Originally Posted by boogers

Or in Kentucky. In 1980 a guy in Oldham County Ky claimed he'd shot at a "bigfoot" type creature on his porch. The man was sure he hit the bigfoot but it ran off into the night.

I remember that.

Didn't that turn out to be a kid in a gorilla suit, too? I was only ten, and my memory's rather foggy....

Lady Moon

[Izzy Quigley]

I agree that knocking on the window was out of line, but I actually found this sort of funny, since my high school buddies and I used to talk about doing similar stuff. We never did (probably a good thing, since I went to HS in a rather gun-happy area.) Maybe I've got a cruel sense of humor. I don't know.