Several years ago, my parents were in Yellowstone, enjoying watching a herd of Buffalo from their car. As the herd included a few calves, it was quite a sight. Apparently, the Buffalo roam all over the place there, without a whole lot of concern for the tourists. :-)
Anyhoo, the idiots behind them sent their children OUT OF THE CAR (!!) to go and stand next to the cute baby buffalos. Wanted to get some pictures, you see.
Dad was able to grab the kids and get them into his car before anyone got hurt. Apparently said fools made quite a stink about it, until a ranger that was happening by set things straight.
Truly, people are dumb about wildlife. Comes from too many Disney movies, I think, where the bears are all friendly and speak with good solid Midwestern accents.
The bears in all the movies I remember had southern accents.
A ranger told me that he watched a guy bump a bull with his big pick up truck. That bull turned and pushed the truck about 70 yards and really wrecked the front end. The bull was not amused.
A guy I used to deer hunt with was a ranger one summer in one of the big national parks.
A guy comes in all torn up and claiming to have been mauled by a bear.
It turned out that he was driving along and saw a bear on the side of the road. So he gets out and walked over and put his arm around the bear while his wife took pictures.
Not being satisfied with that, he heated up his cigarette really well and extinguished it on the bear’s nose.
The bear proceeded to back-fist him into the next county.