PlasticPorter said:
Kpt._Rob said:
This sounds like an allusion to the MIB phenomenon frequently reported by various conspiracy theorists (AKA, the government is behind the conspiracy is what they believe). Needless to say, the most probable answer is that the event never happened in the first place, and instead evolved in the same way that many of these urban legends come about. If it did really happen, there are a couple of possibilities. The most likely reason (especially if this event happened after 9/11) is that the police suspected that the tape could be used for terrorist activities (if you're going to blow up a bridge, it helps to understand its structure, so the video would be invaluable to a potential bomber). It is, of course, also possible (though highly [HIGHLY] improbable) that the conspiracy theorists are right, and this is a genuine manifestation of the MIB phenomenon (whether the MIB (or police in this case) were government agents, or some other supernatural phenomenon disguised as government agents).
while almost every scrap of evidence of the bunnyman bridge stories has been proven to be false this one instance of this cameramans fil being taken away interests me. Now i think terrorism is out of the question because the bridge is a small concrete tunnel with a freight train track over the top of it in the middle of the woods. Police surveillence on its on isnt that odd, but why take the film under these circumstances?
Like I said, I don't know if the incident was post 9/11 or not, but considering the way this country over-reacted in many other areas, I would not be surprised at all to find that the reason the film was confiscated was because it could have been used for terrorist activities. Some advisory board somewhere or other probably suggested that law enforcement prevent people from taking video footage of any bridge (as well as train stations, airports, big buildings, etc...), and even if this bridge could hardly have been a target, law officials might have felt it qualified enough as a bridge to justify taking the film.
I hate to be the voice to dismiss this case, mostly because I've researched my fair share of conspiracy theories, and even though I have yet to find one I do believe, I always want to believe. There is perhaps something in the nature of those of us attracted to these sorts of things, we just want to see something more. Still, even if terrorism isn't the reason, one thinks certainly there must've been some good reason for taking the tapes. The alternative (that this is a genuine manifestation of the MIB phenomenon) is just so highly improbable. It raises too many questions. Like why would the government (or aliens disguised as the government, etc...) be so interested in this tape they'd take it away to cover something up? Did the people who took the footage even claim to have seen anything that they captured on the film? Were the MIB agents just trying to provide some evidence of the reality of the Bunnyman Bridge in order to throw people off the trail of what they're really here for? See, the problem is the questions just get silly.
Spectacular claims require spectacular evidence. The case of some confiscated tapes, unfortunately, does not qualify as spectacular evidence.
