The Hunting for Bambi story takes another twist. Another local television station started the controversy last week when they ran a feature about hunting nude women with paintball rifles. Now, a man has stepped forward to say the story was a hoax designed to get free advertising to sell the videos. News 3's Dana Wagner is digging deeper into the story and says that now the creators of hunting for bambi are now blaming the media for losing money.
Dana says that some people have cancelled future Bambi hunts because of negative publicity in the last couple of days. They're mad particularly at Dana. Last week, they were all about publicity, but now we can't get anyone to talk to us on camera from hunting for bambi and there's one local man who says he knows why.
"There's too many loopholes in his story." John Albert says he's known George Evanthes for more than four years. Evanthes is the man who went hunting for naked women last week with a local TV station. Evanthes says he paid four thousand dollars for the hunt. But some people think he's a shill. Acting as a real hunter to help sell hunting for bambi videos.
"Oh, absolutely, I have no doubt at all he's involved." Albert told News 3's Dana Wangner. And when Dana asked him how he can be so sure Albert answered, "Because I know George."
Albert says Evanthes was a wealthy man at one point. Inheriting a large sum of money from his father. But Albert says Evanthes lost it all through heavy partying. Evanthes lives in a 400 square foot rented condo on West Bonanza. And Albert says he couldn't afford to throw away thousands of dollars to hunt for Bambi.
"Would a millionaire live in a 400 square foot condo?" Albert asks," If you were a millionaire would you live in a 400 square foot condo? I wouldn't."
We wanted to get George Evanthes reaction but he let a note on his condo door do the talking:
"Unless you phoned ahead of time for permission to come to my home, don't knock on the door. I don't like uninvited company and will not tolerate it. In other words you are inconsiderate and a trespasser and will be treated as such."
But evanthes had no problem talking to us on Thursday, "It's simple," Evanthes said, "since my expenses aren't high, I could do a lot of things other people can't."
There is a possibility that Hunting for Bambi will get shut down by the City of Las Vegas. News 3 talked to the spokesman for Hunting for Bambi, Dave Krekelberg. We told him there was an easy way to put all of this to rest. Just open the books and show our viewers how George Evanthes paid for his hunt and how other hunters paid for their hunts. Krekelberg says Evanthes paid in cash and he has no way to prove Evanthes paid anything for his hunt. As for the other hunters, he won't show us how they paid either.
In a business license application last month, the company promised not to sell "porno" videos. The licensing department is investigating, and if they decide the videos are pornographic in nature,they could force the company to shut down.
