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The Cryptozoologist > Breaking News > Wireless News Flash
WIRELESS FLASH VX3 FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2005
WILL REMOTE-CONTROLLED NESSIE TOY WITH
CRYPTOZOOLOGISTS?
NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Cryptozoologists are fearing a
new remote-controlled Loch Ness Monster toy could toy with
their research.
The Takara toy company is releasing a radio-controlled
"Nessie" that travels at five mph and dips underwater.
But the startling realism of the battery-operated
critter has one cryptozoologist concerned the product could
increase the number of hoaxed Nessie sightings.
Cryptid researcher Loren Coleman fears some
pranksters might try to fool researchers by photographing the
toy in shadow or fog, or without an obvious frame of
reference such as a rock or a tree.
Although previous experiences with Bigfoot toys have
prepared cryptozoologists to check for that possibility when
examining photos of alleged sightings, Coleman says the
Nessie toy will make it "more and more difficult to separate
the wheat from the shaft (sic)."
Takara spokeswoman Lauri Abel isn't worried about hoaxed
photos because, she points out, "In order to compare it to a
real Nessie, you have to prove there IS a Loch Ness monster." |
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