He deserves all he gets, the man is childish, folk don't bother questioning claims because the usual vitriol soon follows, anyway, moving on from him.
All evidence needs to be queried, people often have an agenda when they're trying to sell a tale. Eye witness accounts without strong evidence are unreliable, I know of a few local lads that claimed to have seen a hairy ape like figure running locally and they weren't talking about mCHull. It doesn't mean that all are lying, but they are more than likely wrong.
I suspect the people who did the scaling and such are "big cat hunters," a