John Lloyd Scharf, a Bigfoot fan from Oregon, emailed the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department last week about hunting unknown creatures.
Chief of staff Lt. David. Sinclair told FoxNews.com he responded with a straight description of the law -- which hinges not on whether the mythical beast exists, but on precisely how the government would label it.
“The statute that you cite (Section 61.021) refers only to game birds, game animals, fish, marine animals or other aquatic life. Generally speaking, other nongame wildlife is listed in Chapter 67 (nongame and threatened species) and Chapter 68 (nongame endangered species),” Sinclair wrote back to Scharf.
“An exotic animal is an animal that is non-indigenous to Texas. Unless the exotic is an endangered species, then exotics may be hunted on private property with landowner consent.”
The law boils down to provenance, Scharf decided. If Bigfoot is indigenous to Texas, it can be killed.
For those not familiar with Ed Hale's Bigfoot shooting:
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Indigenous, eh?
Funk & Wagnalls Online wrote:
in·dig·e·nous [in-dij-uh-nuhs] Show IPA
adjective 1. originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to ): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
2. innate; inherent; natural (usually followed by to ): feelings indigenous to human beings.
That sure sounds like natural born to me -- jus soli all the way. And I'm not seeing a requirement that both motherfoot and fatherfoot have to be indigenous to Texas too, also.
I guess this means that you can't shoot a 14th Amendment bigfoot.
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Piffle wrote:
I guess this means that you can't shoot a 14th Amendment bigfoot.
Yeah, it's gotta be a natural born Texan bigfoot. Ole Ed has got Scotland Yard working on the birf certificate before he sends it out to the usual university laboratories for verification.
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Just one more example of why I've been visiting PJ/Fogbow for years now. Mahalo for the laughs!
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Piffle wrote:
=)) Indigenous, eh?
Funk & Wagnalls Online wrote:
in·dig·e·nous [in-dij-uh-nuhs] Show IPA
adjective 1. originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to ): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
2. innate; inherent; natural (usually followed by to ): feelings indigenous to human beings.
That sure sounds like natural born to me -- jus soli all the way. And I'm not seeing a requirement that both motherfoot and fatherfoot have to be indigenous to Texas too, also.
I guess this means that you can't shoot a 14th Amendment bigfoot.
Do they have to show you their LFBCs and kindergarten records before you hunt them down
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