Pity the poor driver in Fairfield, Connecticut, who encountered "an 8-foot-tall creature with a large body and 'legs like tree trunks' " last Tuesday. She almost smacked right into it. I would have reacted the same way, I think. Raccoons with no sense of direction and hitchhiking poodles on their way to the mall are bad enough. Who expects to encounter something like that in the road, especially at 10:30 at night? But the driver did something clever: she used her high beams and "the creature covered its face and ran into the woods." Scaredy BigFoot!
Well, Scaredy BigFoot turned out to be a teenager in a "gorilla-like costume," said the police. Pseudo BigFoot! In any case, the police captured and delivered PseudoBigFoot, gorilla garb and all, into the custody of his parents. The parents are probably happy no one got hurt and may be contemplating keeping an eye on his sneakered feet indefinitely.
Smart driver, smart cops, smart parents, and a teenager enjoying the first weeks of vacation. Ah, summer.
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