Just wondering what you guys would do would the fame and furtune make you want to kill it? Just seeing what you guys think. If it was me I would just to prove its exists.

I would capture it get a crypto team, and a cloning team set up and try to clone it and raise it in captivity.

I'd just take pictures. Why kill something that has hid away from civilization for so long..?

Pictures can be claimed as faked a living breathing spicemen has a better chance of being seen as real in spectics minds.

i'd try and capture it,sure, but if i didn't have the resources, or it was too dangerous then i'd take it down, like pancake said, the cloning team can do the rest after they've lined my pockets that is

I dont believe in killing anything just for the sake of it. Im not out to prove anything exists to anyone.

Depends, if it was something small, then well I'd try to capture it.

If it was something big with teeth, then I'd have to be loaded for bear and take it down.

I would capture it and then hide it in my basement.....mouhahahahahaahha

Would you want a cryptid to capture or kill you? No way. I would not kill it at all. I would just take pictures.

I would be happier leaving a cryptid in its own environment making no attempt to capture it or kill it.

"The fantasies of an aspiring bigfoot assassin will eventually mature from visions of scientific glory to visions of big money. Once that transition is made the fantasizer gradually comes to realize that a quantity of stunning, clear, close-range video footage could be worth as much, if not more, than a carcass. After all, unlike video footage, the body of bigfoot does not have an established market value. It might actually be worth less than nothing if confiscated by the government as part of a criminal investigation. A body would certainly be much more difficult to transport, store and preserve than a videotape. And no government authority would ever challenge someone's right to sell the footage or collect continuing royalties from it. A videotape would not be worth as much to science, but a body may, in the end, only advance the careers of the scientists who study it, and not bring anything to the hunter other than some dubious notoriety. The hunter's notoriety might only generate a relatively paltry amount of cash from interviews immediately after the incident, but intriguing video footage would bring notoriety as well as commercial licensing fees and royalties for use of the footage. These are the realities that help diehard bigfoot field researchers to favor cameras over guns. "

http://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_FAQ.asp?id=411

For me, it all depends on whether it tried to attack me. I certainly would not want to kill it, just to kill it. However, if I was attacked I wouldn't hesitate to take him down. It's them or me, and I'm not ready to die. Especially die from a creature nobody believes is real. That's hard to explain to people. I don't want my mom and dad at the funeral to have to explain that their son was ripped in half by bigfoot, eaten by nessie or megaladon, blood sucked by chupa, etc.. That's just hard to tell people, ya know?

But seriously I would try to take it without harming it.

This is a poor example since this isn't how it would happen in the wild, but if you told me that there was a bigfoot behind my house and I knew that I could make a lot of money for a dead body, or a decent amount of money with good solid evidence, I would choose the latter. I would take my video camera, set it up on a tripod, set the focus perfectly, and get a long good clear video. Same with a still photo camera. Technology is coming along well enough that if nothing else, I could sell it to enough people who want to examine it. (Video editors, photo editors, scientists et al.) I would hate to live with the guilt of possibly killing off the last of a species.

nesse would like nice over the fireplace.....

I should add that I don't believe in capturing one either.

You would be taking one of a limited number out of the breeding population *just the same as killing one* and I think it would most probaly die in captivity as we don't know to much about about any of there food supply, needs and you wouldn't know how they handle captivity.

To me capturing one is like sentencing one to a slow death, only it would get poked and prodded along the way

How much is a life worth, esp if its a rare animal.

Probably not. I'd rather capture some video clips, pictures, and footprints of the creature to help its existence to be proved. Though I might not even do that at all, some people would probably feel compelled to kill the animal for money if they knew it was about.

Capture or kill? Probably neither if the animal posed no direct threat to me. Who am I to gun one down or throw it in a cage to prove its existence? Although pictures may not satisfy the scientific community, a really close encounter with the likes of Bigfoot would get rid of any doubts I have. And if I know it exists, then who gives a hoot about the masses of asses

id leave it alone period, it diserves a life of being free from humans and might as well let them enjoy it until some ass finnaly does capture or kill one

meke friends with it then make a super hero duo with it

I would have to let it be i do not believe in killing anything, and if you capture it they would just kill or torture the poor thing, i do not even think i would take pictures of it,since others may go and hunt it down, So i guess i would be happy just knowing for myself it was real.

If the bas*ard was hostile I'd definitely kill it with no second thoughts

Capture if at all possible.

if it was summtin small like a Chupacabra i'd probally keep it in a bird cage or somthing but if it was an anthrapomorph like the Mothman I'd try to capture it but i dont think i could so i would mostlikely i'd end up trying to kill it

same here!!! i would never want to capture or kill it, i would leave it in it's own enviroment and let it live!!

well I would capture it, dress it up as a maid, and have it serve me my lunch exactly at 12:15....no. i wouldn't kill it. I would only take pictures. The thing that makes them great is the unexplained part. I don't want an exact genus species for the creature I just want it to be alive...

I think Nessie is protected by endangered species laws.

I haven't heard that, how can a species that has not been identified yet be protected?

Id let it be..

I'd think, "Oh boy, I've seen a cryptid."

Then I would pat myself on the back and walk away, because there would be such controversy I would create if I reported the sighting.

Seeing is good enough for me.

Its been identified for decades, has been given a latin name and everything, it was even for a time listed in the book of known animals (under Nessiteras rhombopteryx), it was during that time I'm sure it was listed as protected. Then the whole sceptism issue came into play (mainly because the Latin name was found to 'Monster hoax by Sir Peter S' rearranged, Peter Rines being the scientists who fought for it to be protected and a recognised species) and it was removed from the book of known animals, but as far as I know the law was never revoked... not enforced... but not revoked.

I know Nessie has been acknowledged for years but what species has it been Identified has? To protect a species surely you should identify which species it is? or is there some loophole that allows a protection order to go through probably like Ogopogo, I think there are laws protecting Ogopogo without identifying what animal it actually is?

It wasn't identified as any known species, it was given its own family group 'Nessiteras', and species name 'rhombopteryx'. It was a time when a lot of flipper pictures were all over the press (around 1971 or 2), so they felt they had enough evidence to pass it into the book of known animals. Most scientists at the time were convinced it was real.
I think at the time they were more interested in naming it to give it rights in law, than get down to the buisness of what it technically was. I think there are other species that they've done the same with, only to rename it by the correct family group later.

In the end its speculation, it was 1972, I wasn't even alive then, I don't know their motives.

Now for the big question, is there anything to protect Bigfoot other than seasonal hunting laws?

No I don't think there is but maybe start another discussion on this rather than go off topic?

Technically its still on topic as it eliminates the issue of would you kill the cryptid, as if it were against the law you'd end up in jail.

Personally I find the idea of someone dropping dead a bigfoot pretty hard, as the likelyhood of campers having heavy weaponary with them is unlikely.

I remember reading that to allow a protection order to protect bigfoot to go through they had to Physically prove the existance of the animal therefore other than seasonal hunting laws he is a free target to any Cowboy that fancies his chances.

I remember reading that anyone who did kill a bigfoot would be killed within the year by Earth First etc given how closely related they are to us.

I hope if it ever happens that would be true.

So? I would know it was real That's all that really matters to me.

I'm tempted not to take pictures or anything at all. Just let it live in peace. Without people running over there trying to see it.

I suppose I'll be bashed for it at some point but I must admit, I'm with the Hard Evidence camp..If at all possible I'd make it live capture, but were that not an option I'd choose to kill it..
The benefits to science, the field of cryptozoology, and indeed the shocking blow to mainstream thought on exactly what could exist out there would make the ends justify the means for me..
For far too long have we had to dance around with second-hand stories and blurry photographs. For once I'd enjoy some hard, undebateable evidence for the existance of a Cryptid..
Somebody had to actually catch that first Ceolocanth you know..

If it came down to it attacking me, or me killing it.. id kill it.
But if i had a choice, i would very much have it alive and well.
Why kill something when its not needed?

I'd go with pictures, and if it was of a Yowie I'd only share them with certain people in the field.

On the other hand if I got a clear shot of an ABC near where I live, I'm not sure. Even though I live in a small area we're surrounded by bush and there's lots of kids who play in it.
I wouldn't want anyones child to become dinner, so I may hand them over to the right people to warn the public. It's a tough one, I wouldn't want them hunted, but how guilty would you feel if a child was taken.

I'm with Falco, plus eventually someone will capture and/or kill it and make a huge sum of money, and if i'd just stood there gawping at it and let it run off taking my big fat pay check with it i'd kick myself

A big fat paycheck would be nice too.. Unfortunately I'd probably have to spend it on legal fees. If what's gone before is any indication, i'd have to worry about lawyers, terrorist threats from PETA and Earth-First, intensive scrutiny from the media, contempt from those scientists who still wouldn't want to study a definite corpse of a Cryptid, and genrally endure a huge media circus I'd rather avoid altogether..
Still, if it meant there was finally definite proof of Bigfoot or Nessie or the like, I'd be willing to endure these slings and arrows just for the advancement of truth and science, money regardless..

I would love to go out into the middle of rainforests and study animals from a distance, and if i discovered a new species (I hate it when people just assume cryptids are mythological beasts) then I would want to alert some environmental group so that it could be protected. I would just hate myself if people went hunting for the animal, so I wouldn't want to tell the news broadcasters or anything. If it was something like Bigfoot or whatever, I would'nt tell anyone to do with journalism or anything, and I would not intrude on its space or go anywhere near it. Not because I would be scared, but because it is not necessary. And I wouldn't even think twice about killing something, I just could not do it.

I would like to catch one to be honest. But if it was coming after me trying to get me I'd be forced to kill it out of protection. But I'd love to just see one!

Capture it. Kill it. Eat it. Those cryptids are good eating.

I'd try and capture one sothat way people would know they exist and then hopefully get it put on the endangered species list in order to protect it and its habitat.

Hmm... From what I've heard about bigfoot, it is HUGE! And if you did kill, what would be the point? You would have to carry a huge 7 foot tall, 800+ pounds creature from the woods to where ever you are going to take it. Capturing it is prolly impossible as well. You have to think, something that huge has alot of power. If I seen one, I would prolly be a dumbass and chase after it with a big stick, and prolly get jumped by like 5 others and learn my lesson.... I have also heard they are really fast. So, are you gonna try and drive after it, in the woods? There is a reason bigfoots and nessie and others haven't been caught. 1, they aren't real, or they are just too damned hard to catch...