Have a heart, brake for Bigfoot! Sasquatches have rights too, you know. Bigfoot on the Endangered Species List? From the Files of Fortean Slips by D. Trull Enigma Editor (dtrull@parascope.com) Bigfoot has eluded our verification so skillfully for so many years, it's reasonable to assume that if the creature exists, there aren't too many of them. Let's face it, if a population of thousands of eight-foot-tall ape-men was thriving all over the countryside, we'd probably all know about it by now. There may well be but a scant five or six Bigfoots out there, valiantly staving off extinction. When our other animal buddies reach this lowest rung on the Darwinian ladder, our government steps in to establish wildlife reserves and offer protection on endangered species lists. The undeniable right to share our planet belongs to every species that exists... or may exist. If Sasquatches are real, don't they have the same rights as buffaloes and mountain lions and eagles? Shouldn't we protect them too, just in case? It looks like we already have. Fortean Slips has received a very sketchy field report to that effect. It is believed that a developer was prepared to build on a secluded site in the Northwest, possibly in Oregon or Washington state, but his plans came to a halt when he was told that Sasquatch was on the state's endangered species list for that area. That's all the details I have. Maybe it was passed into law as a joke, or maybe some Fortean state congressman successfully sponsored such a bill, God bless him. Alas, after scouring the Internet, I'm afraid I have no confirmation one way or the other. It has the slightly-off aroma of an urban legend, one that might be thrown around by the Rush Limbaughs of the world to ridicule tree-hugging liberals. But let's hope there's some truth to it. If you have any further info that corroborates Bigfoot as an endangered species, by all means, send it in and I'll post it. In any event, let it be known that I brake for Bigfoot. I'd better--I'd hate to see what one would do to the front end of my Buick. (c) Copyright 1997 ParaScope, Inc. Next: The Supervoles of Chernobyl Fortean Slips Index What do you think? Tell us in the message boards!