February 26, 2010
During the last several weeks there has been a series of emails that have been sent to a bigfoot blog site stating that Oregon Drivers Licenses are being suspended when citizens report a bigfoot sighting to a police officer. It has been claimed that some people observe a bigfoot and report the sighting to a deputy sheriff or local police officer. The claims on the blog site state that the law enforcement official believes the person is fabricating or seeing something that isn’t there and writes a report to the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles for a re-evaluation of the drivers status. There have been numerous reports of this on the site. NABS first wrote about this on our Blog site.
NABS read about the practice of supposedly suspending licenses and proactively contacted the Public Information Officer for the Oregon DMV, David House. NABS was told by Mr. House that this is not a practice of Oregon DMV but that he would investigate and find the truth. He called NABS later in the day and advised us that he had spoken with each of the evaluators that receive request for re-evaluation from police officers and they HAD NEVER seen a bigfoot sighting as a justification for license suspension or re-evaluation, this was approximately 2 weeks ago.
NABS took the information that we received from Mr. House and forwarded it to the owner of the site that was receiving the complaints. There was an immediate outcry from the bloggers that NABS was fabricating, they hadn’t talked to DMV, we were liars, etc. We gave Mr. House’s name and number to the owner of the site and asked them to call and evaluate our investigation, they didn’t. The reports of license suspensions continue to filter into that site, so, we asked Oregon DMV for a written letter explaining their own investigation, see below:
The cornerstone to NABS is truth, honesty and integrity. We cannot confirm that Oregon DMV is telling the truth but we can state with absolute confidence that what we first reported about this story is consistent with what Mr. House wrote to us today.
NABS has requested anyone who has been a victim of a license suspension based on a bigfoot sighting to contact us, we will investigate and gladly refer the case to Mr. House for comment. This request was posted 2 weeks ago on that site and NOBODY has given us a name, date or incident report number to cross confirm that this practice is occuring. Yes, the allegations continue on the site but nobody is willing to give up identifying information to corroborate their stories.
The final statement about this investigation is that this will remain an urban myth until a victim of this practice steps forward and allows their case to be publisized and investigated. If these claims are true, we truly wish the victims would come forward as NABS would be their #1 advocate.