"I am bemused by my learned colleague's knowledge of `repeated reports of sasquatch sightings.'"

--Washington state Supreme Court Justice Tom Chambers, taking issue with fellow Justice Jim Johnson.

Johnson's point was that a state board wants Ferry County to prove that certain endangered species don't exist there, even though some of the species -- unlike sasquatch -- have never been sighted in the county.

(For more on that purported sasquatch siting (summer of 2004, near Republic, Wash.), go to the website of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization We particularly like the organization's $10 "2005 Expedition Patch.)

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