Debunk the Myth: Sasquatch
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on February 3rd, 2007
On my way back from an assignment this week, I noticed a television commercial being shot at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center downtown. Being somewhat nosey and persistent I convinced the director to allow me to hang out on the set for a while. Several minutes into shooting, a crew member came over and tapped me on my shoulder.
“Have you seen the main character yet?” he asked.
“Nope,” I said.
Next thing I know, I’m photographing Jim Axt of College Hill in full costume who had his feet kicked OFF and was resting on a bench in the center’s lobby between takes. I knew my parking meter several blocks away was set to expire, but how many chances will I get to photograph “Sasquatch” taking a break on the job? It all made the $40 parking ticket well worth it. The display the photograph received in the newspaper the following morning was not however. It ran so small it was hard to tell what Jim was dressed up as and his feet placed to the side were partially cropped out of the photograph. By the way, the company filming the commercial was the Ohio Tobacco Prevention Foundation. Their “debunk the myth” commercials advocate a smoke free and “healthier state for all”.Jason Geil
The Cincinnati Post
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
Cute, but how does Bigfoot support non-smoking? I’m sure we will see. Tobacco was the U.S. first commercial crop and funded the Revolutionary War. Why should bars, bingo halls and bowling alleys be forced to go non-smoking? No one is forcing people to go into one of these places. Let people decide for themselves. Our freedoms grow smaller every day, and for open minded people like cryptozoology fans to accept propaganda like anti-smoking ads is irony defined.
The people who work in those places have to breathe that smoke too and second hand smoke is even worse than taking a drag off the cig.
What people do in the privacy of their homes or private members-only clubs is their own business as long as they are not subjecting children to it. But smoking bans in public places just make sense.
In another post you asked the question if ufology and cryptozoology had anything in common. At the time I didn’t think so, but now I am not so sure. The U.F.O.s and their little gray aliens have become cultural icons. You see them in television commercials, in magazine adds, as toys, in video games and, well they’re everywhere. And it looks like bigfoot is now following in their footprints (pun intended.)
Does he have family that make commercials? He could be related to those other fellas that make an insurance commercial.
What kittenz said, with the addition of consenting. What consenting adults do in the privacy of their homes or private clubs is their business.
Bravo, Kittenz. Anti-smoking laws are not restricting rights, they are protecting them. We all have the right to breathe clean air, and to be protected from the cancerous exhalations of those who do not. No one would try to protect an IV drug user that was injecting innocent bystanders with their filth, or someone who liked the rush caused from oxygen deprivation that stangled strangers, so why do people put up with people blowing carcinogens in their face?
There is now a state (I forget which, it could be mine, New Jersey) that is going to enforce fines for anyone caught smoking in a car in which a child is an occupant. As a child forced to experience such unpleasant and unhealthy experiences (At least until I got my hands on a gas mask when I was 12 or so- oh, I wore it!), I am all in favour.
Actually I think that it is Maine that has the proposed law banning smoking in the car when children are present.
If consenting adults (thanks, shovethenos) want to smoke in their homes or cars, well, it’s their lungs.
Kentucky is a big tobacco growing state, and smoking bans here meet with howls from many people. But even smokers will usually – grudgingly at first – come to admit that dining out or playing bingo is more pleasant in a smoke-free room.
BTW, nicotine makes an excellent insecticide too. It’s the active ingredient in many houseplant insecticides.
I bet this would have stopped traffic in its place.
Wow! No one is holding a gun to your head on the sidewalk and forcing you to walk into a smoking establishment. There are plenty of non-smoking venues for people to enjoy. Why not let the industry or business owners decide for themselves? When the corner bars shut down, where are the second hand smoke consumers going to work? Apparently, more people are welcoming Big Brother with open arms than I thought.
Florida enacted a smoking ban several years ago — and none of the horror stories about bankrupted restaurants have come true. Establishments that sell above a certain percentage of their gross as alcohol can allow smoking, but those are few and far between.
It’s not illegal to commit suicide either (in Florida, anyway), but that doesn’t mean I should just quietly let someone toss my body off a bridge, either.
The scientific and medical evidence speaks for itself. You treat your body the way you want — but don’t force me to deal with the consequences.
This post was not intended to be a smoking vs. non-smoking debate.
Several commenters mentioned what I was trying to show here, how pervasive Bigfoot is in pop culture today.
I have turned comments off for this post as it has turned into something that was not intended.