# What would you do if you saw a Big Foot? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 19, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-saw-a-big-foot/473516 "2008-11-19T20:26:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-saw-a-big-foot/473516/21 "2008-11-20T16:37:28Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > A week or so ago I thought about asking if people would shoot a bigfoot if they came across one (and had a gun.) In parts of the Pacific Northwest it’s actually illegal to shoot or harm Bigfoot. ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-saw-a-big-foot/473516/22 "2008-11-20T16:46:26Z")
I’d roll my eyes and call the woman that owns the local Bigfoot museum and ask her to tell her kid to cut it out. It isn’t like tourists are wandering around in the woods off the trails anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-saw-a-big-foot/473516/23 "2008-11-20T21:26:53Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Whatever happened to love in the first instance? Don’t you think if you loved it properly, it would love you back? Why resort to rape and scat play? > > Though thinking about it, if you could get _it_ to shit on _you_, then you’d have DNA coming out the wazoo. No, if he got it to _fuck_ him he would have DNA coming out the wazoo. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-saw-a-big-foot/473516/24 "2008-11-20T23:05:34Z")
Bigfeet? MMMMM! Them’s good eatn’! ---
**Author:** ![fatnugly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@fatnugly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatnugly)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-saw-a-big-foot/473516/25 "2008-11-20T23:58:48Z")
I’d shoot it with my ray-gun. Settle the debate over the existence of Bigfoot and ray-guns. ---
**Author:** ![Jaglavak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jaglavak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaglavak)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-saw-a-big-foot/473516/26 "2008-11-21T04:26:04Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > In parts of the Pacific Northwest it’s actually illegal to shoot or harm Bigfoot. Say what? Cite-ski pleeze? Not that I ever would shoot one if I could avoid it. If they are anywhere near what has been described they are likely to be at least as intelligent as your average human. All this is purely theoretical anyway. Any critter that lives in the wild has a few universal requirements. Like finding food, shelter, and eventually a mate. For that the critter absolutely needs to move around. You can’t browse only in the deep woods; you have to go where the clover is. You can’t catch prey from a hole in the ground; you have to go where the prey is. And you can’t woo big feet-ettes from a cave; you’ve got to go find one. Then you would probably have to beat up some other bigfoot. I imagine a pair of 7 ft tall, 650 lb bigfeet having a donneybrook would make quite a racket. Hell, I’d pay good money… well, never mind. And one pesky other detail, for a boy critter to find a girl critter you need a certain minimum population density or the odds go down to around zero. If there were bigfeets even so much as one every 100 miles they would be found by now. Every single time I go for a walkabout I find sign of bear, big cat, elk, deer, people and more people, coyote, hawk, owl, mice, rabbit, snake, etc etfreakincetera. No bigfoot. It’s a story folks. But it does make for a fun story. So what the hell, have fun with it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-saw-a-big-foot/473516.md?page=1)