February 2, 2009
Storsjöodjuret Cam Permits?
Governments are figuring out clever ways to make cryptozoology pay, it would seem.
Hear the breaking news about the county board in Sweden requiring fines be paid for trying to film the lake monsters named Storsjöodjuret? What’s the world coming to?
Sweden’s legendary Great Lake Sea Monster (Storsjöodjuret) remains the focus of photographers hunting for its image despite a Jämtland county council order banning cameras on the shores of Storsjön in Östersund in northern Sweden.
Svenstavik local business association has continued its surveillance of the lake in the hope of the spotting the famed ‘monster’ without permission from the Jämtland County Administrative Board (Länsstyrelsen).
Pictures from cameras set up on the lake’s shores have been published on the association’s homepage and have raised the interest of the council who have issued fines.
“When we found out about the camera surveillance undertaken without a permit we immediately conducted a review. The association has since been encouraged to apply for a permit,” said Åsa Johansson at Jämtland County Administrative Board.
After completing a review of the case the board has agreed to permit four cameras to watch for the legendary beast but they are to be located under the water surface of the lake.
Any camera surveillance above the water’s surface has been ruled in breach of regulations.
For the rest of the article, see here.
What do you think, are the members of the Länsstyrelsen:
(1) Spoilsports;
(2) Clueless;
(3) In league with the business association to drum up publicity;
(4) Figured out another way to get money for their board; or
(5) Plain and simple, just stupid?
Full credit to Robin, last name unknown, at “My Strange Blog” for the heads up.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
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