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As national parks mark milestone, visitor misbehavior abounds
CBS News ^ | 8-28-16

Posted on 08/29/2016 4:45:13 AM PDT by SJackson

Edited on 08/29/2016 1:31:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - Tourist John Gleason crept through the grass, four small children close behind, inching toward a bull elk with antlers like small trees at the edge of a meadow in Yellowstone National Park.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nationalparks; stupidpeople
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect
The difference now is the volume of visitors, not the stupidity of human beings.

I couldn't disagree more, it's the volume of stupidity we're seeing. The behavior in National Parks is but a small example of stupid behavior.

41 posted on 08/29/2016 5:54:38 AM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: SJackson

“Three visitors from Asia cited on separate occasions for illegally collecting water from the park’s thermal features.”

Bureaucracy run amok. I think we could spare a water sample for some Asian tourists.


42 posted on 08/29/2016 5:58:40 AM PDT by MNnice
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To: Donglalinger

Looks like Four-eyes there has no idea how to punch, or even how to make a fist.


43 posted on 08/29/2016 6:02:04 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: circlecity

Must be time to review Park budget requests.


Close the parks before they are destroyed along with the rest of the country. People have no style, respect or grace anymore. I dearly miss the country and people of my youth...(age 67).


44 posted on 08/29/2016 6:02:23 AM PDT by AFret.
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To: King Moonracer

I wonder if this is part of the “close the parks because blacks do not go” narrative?

...

Could be. While reading the article I was thinking the unstated title was “White People Behaving Badly.”


45 posted on 08/29/2016 6:03:13 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: bert

**...it’s why you buy a Subaru...*

No, my Friend, you buy a Subaru to hang-out in the passing lane on the highway, to aggravate all the drivers who want to speed through, and pass everyone else. ;)


46 posted on 08/29/2016 6:08:25 AM PDT by Daffynition (What The Hell Have You Got To Lose? ~DJT)
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To: SJackson

All part of the ‘keep the proles out of the parks’ initiative by the elites.


47 posted on 08/29/2016 6:10:01 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: SJackson

Washington state residents. says it ALL.

Dumbasses. And the center of the dumbassery is King County.


48 posted on 08/29/2016 6:11:00 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: SJackson
**... Morrow declared herself unafraid of the park’s wildlife. She said she was eager to see a grizzly up close.

“I want to see one right there,” Morrow said, pointing to a spot just feet away. “I’d throw it a cookie.” ...**


49 posted on 08/29/2016 6:11:37 AM PDT by Daffynition (What The Hell Have You Got To Lose? ~DJT)
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To: DallasGal
Hubby and I were hiking in Canada near Banff where only a few cars were in the lot near the trailhead. When we were about 100 yds. from the car, I looked down and saw a bush moving...then a bear’s head. I shouted, BEAR, to my husband ahead of me and he stopped, by the grace of GOD!, and looked at me and I pointed. About that time a silver tipped grizzly stopped and stood up and looked around. We were petrified, and in awe to see this creature so close! The claws and body were amazing but we wanted away as our hearts were about to burst from the fear! Luckily, it finally just went deeper into the woods and out of fear I took off and ran to the car. When we got there locals told us it had been in the parking lot and a really unusual site to see a non-tagged silver tipped grizzly!
50 posted on 08/29/2016 6:13:37 AM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: T-Bone Texan

Agree 100%. Their actions during the 2013 budget crisis were unforgivable. I’ve come to believe that their real goal is to close the parks to all but the most caring individuals, who will all just happen to be rich liberals.


52 posted on 08/29/2016 6:18:06 AM PDT by McGarrett (Book'em Danno)
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To: baltimorepoet
Meanwhile on Cape Cod this weekend....people flock to the National Seashore to see the grey seal colonies, that have been growing over the past few years, off Chatham.

Not exactly what Disney would show


53 posted on 08/29/2016 6:18:26 AM PDT by Daffynition (What The Hell Have You Got To Lose? ~DJT)
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To: SJackson

Saw bears up close in Yellowstone in 1968...cars would stop and people would throw them food...then you’d have a bear at the car, begging...some fools would get out to take pictures. I worked at Mammoth Hot Springs that summer as a 17 yr old. Did some naive things, but survived.


54 posted on 08/29/2016 6:23:39 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Hillary SUPPORTS those who support CLITORECTOMIES for little girls...)
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To: YouGoTexasGirl
Were you armed on that hike in Banff? I have been on several bear hunts, black bear and grizzly, in Canada and I would never venture into that country unless I was armed. I have seen bears up close and personal. Bear spray would not be enough for me!
55 posted on 08/29/2016 6:23:41 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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Morrow declared herself unafraid of the park’s wildlife. She said she was eager to see a grizzly up close.

In the mid-'80's or so, my then-wife and myself were hiking at Yellowstone.

We came to a bend in the trail at the head of a small meadow.

About 100 yards away stood a "librarian" type woman (I hope the description is understood, and yes, stupid liberal is implied), holding something out toward an object we could not clearly see.

I got my bino's out and saw the idiot woman was holding a banana out to a young grizzly cub, who was doing his best to hide in the lee of a fallen spruce.

The stupid woman was holding the banana out, then, with it in her hand, would reach to her face and push her glasses back up.

I could see the cub following her motions, but my wife could see the Mama Grizzly about 20 yards away, watching intently, swaying back and forth.

I told my wife to start walking calmly back down the trail and that I would follow.

I had just purchased a brand new S&W .41 magnum and had it in my back pack.

(Yes, I know it was illegal at Yellowstone, but I will have the means to protect myself.)

I yelled at the Mama Grizzly, and she apparently was unable to scent any of us, as the wind was directly in my face.

She grunted several times and the cub took off toward her and they both quickly moved into the scrub brush and disappeared.

I confronted the stupid woman and she actually told me that she was going to pet the cub if it got close enough.

I got back to the manned trailhead before the idiot and told the Ranger what had happened, minus my gun, of course, and he confronted the woman when she came down.

Don't know what happened afterward, probably nothing, but it just illustrates the absolute stupidity of some of these people.

56 posted on 08/29/2016 6:24:30 AM PDT by OldSmaj (Voting for Hillary because she is a woman is like eating a turd because it looks like a Baby Ruth.)
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To: King Moonracer

“I wonder if this is part of the “close the parks because blacks do not go” narrative?”

I don’t go to the ghetto, maybe they could close those too.


57 posted on 08/29/2016 6:28:19 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: N. Theknow

That’s it precisely. Disneyfication of nature. Too many are completely divorced from reality- nature is what they see in Disney movies. Singing animals all getting along with each other, cuddly bears and lions and other animals being friends. It goes way back. Add in the we-are-all-one , animals are superior, ecology types and you have people bringing their kids to ‘meet’ Simba and Baloo. Ah well- I guess we can think of it as food delivery for the animals. No pity for morons like this.


58 posted on 08/29/2016 6:28:29 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam- it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I will send you my home address so you can send me a new keyboard ;)


59 posted on 08/29/2016 6:29:20 AM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: OldSmaj
Foolish woman.

Everyone knows that grizzly bears eat cookies, not bananas.

(do i need a /s? :-) )

60 posted on 08/29/2016 6:52:00 AM PDT by wbill
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