Posted on 05/17/2015 6:24:01 AM PDT by bestintxas
(Sighs). The first word in "Wild Animals" is wild. Cityfolk....
Yeah, so?
Did the host family get a heck of a lifetime pic?
/quickly ducking projectiles
STUPID should hurt
stupid SHOULD hurt
stupid should HURT
The Park Rangers need to enforce the rules with stiff fines. I was in Yellowstone five years ago and they have a distance policy for Bears as well. We saw a large bear grazing on wild flowers right next to the road, Rangers were there and so were the tourist getting out of the car and walking up to the bear as little as 20 feet away for pictures. The Rangers said nothing.
Vice principal.
One day we picked up the paper and saw that his "past" had been revealed to the medical board, and he was getting his license yanked for three or four years.
Turns out he had a thing for pre-pubescent little girls and did some discrete photography for his computer....got caught and did a couple of years at the Fort.
Funny thing is, wife and I both kinda figured he was gay - turns out his pecadillo was a different variant.
I read a book about death in Yellowstone called Death in Yellowstone, oddly enough. Talked about falls and scalding and whitewater and animals and weather, all sorts of fun methods. It mentioned that Asians were injured and killed far out of proportion to their percentages.
I visited Old Faithful ten years or so ago to find that the walkways around the geysers had been closed. A buffalo had attacked a woman walking the trail with her husband. She wasn’t’t particularly close to the buffalo, but she was a lot closer than the family group whose parents were allowing their idiot boy to pelt the buffalo with rocks.
The lesson is: You don’t even have to be the idiot to get in trouble with wild beasts.
The woman suffered only minor injuries, a ranger told me when they reopened the walkways, but the brat could easily have gotten her killed.
You are correct. At 25 yards you would not, as a rule, register as a threat to the bison. I narrate tours in Yellowstone and can attest to the creativity that people exhibit in getting injured and killed.
One of the worst true stories is of a man who jumped in a thermal pool in an attempt to save his dog who had playfully jumped in. The man lived for a few agonizing hours.
To impress upon people the extreme temperatures of the thermal features there, I tell them about the early visitors who explored the park. They would lower sacks of dried beans into a thermal pool and in 30 minutes they were ready to eat. Stay on the walkways so you don’t get cooked!
Thankfully, my tours are all English speaking.
I suppose there is a left side to the Bell Curve even among generally higher IQ populations.
We were there two years ago when some man fishing stepped into an underwater hole and went down. They found his body not long after.
A friend told me of her first time there. At one of the hot springs, some family got out of their car, and a kid ran to the spring and jumped in. She said the rangers had to pull his body parts out one piece at a time.
Many people approach the lone isolated laying down buffalo to have it in the background of a selfie. These are usually males that have been chased from the herd by the dominant male. Unfortunately, during rutting season they can be very aggressive.
...That and movies. I remember the scene in Jurassic Park where the girl pets the brontosaur after being informed by the "scientist" that you don't need to be afraid, that dinosuar is an herbivore. If one tries to pet a river hippo, an herbivore, one will quickly discover herbivore is not an indian word for "peaceful grazing animal".
I have been to Yellowstone twice as well. The first time was in 1953 and there were no Buffaloes, at least none that you could see. The next time was in about 2000’ the park was over run with them.
Enough already declare a hunting season on them.
Sounds like she has a great pic for her facebook. When we were there the Japanese were always running to get these pics and one guy was following a Grizzly bear and had to be stopped by a Ranger.
Pray America is waking
Reminds me, I was stationed at Fort Riley when the last Calvary horse died back in '68.
The Japanese, Chinese, all of them, have lived in the same place for 2500 years, and have long since either domesticated or eaten any and all threats. Is it possible that the instinctive reaction to dangerous wildlife has been bred out of the species?
Been to Yellowstone. We stopped a campground so the ex could use the bathroom, and were informed that we should stay in the car or the bathroom while a herd of buff moved thru. The ranger said that the buffs have the right of way.
I don’t know if this is cultural, genetic, or what ... but I can’t even tell you how many Asian visitors I’ve seen in national parks in the U.S. and Canada interacting like this with dangerous wild animals. Every time I drive past a scene on the side of a road out west with a bunch of Chinese or Japanese tourists trying to pose with an elk or bison for a photo, I cringe to myself and wonder if someone could buy these idiots a clue.
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