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Bison Attacks California Tourist at Yellowstone National Park
KIFI ^ | July 22, 2009

Posted on 07/22/2009 5:51:48 PM PDT by george76

For the second time this year a tourist at Yellowstone National Park has been attacked by a bison.

a 55-year-old man from Norco, California, was taking pictures of a bull bison that was wandering in the Bridge Bay Campgrounds. The two were about 10 feet apart when the bison charged.

a bull bison can stand six feet tall, weigh up to 2,000 pounds and run up to 30 miles an hour. During the next several weeks they are more dangerous than usual because it's their mating season.

(Excerpt) Read more at localnews8.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: bison; buffalo; california; darwin; darwinaward; napl; tourist; yellowstone
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. . . . Bison in Winter.

41 posted on 07/22/2009 6:50:39 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: george76
I grew up not far from the West entrance to Yellowstone. I was amazed at how stupid many people are around dangerous wild animals. The hospital in our town, one of the nearest to the park, treated many injuries, some deadly, each tourist season. Most were caused by bears. As the rangers used to explain, bears don't know where the food you're feeding them ends and the hand begins -- it's all food to them.
42 posted on 07/22/2009 6:50:39 PM PDT by Bernard Marx ("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

I believe it. When I was in Yellowstone about 10 years ago some idiots were trying to get their kids to stand next to a mother bison so they could snag a picture.

It was late May or early June and the babies were still with the moms, and the moms did NOT like anyone getting between them and their babies, or getting anywhere near them.

There’s a lot of “duh” out there.

LQ


43 posted on 07/22/2009 7:00:19 PM PDT by LizardQueen (The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
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To: Bernard Marx

The timmy treadwell hollywierd tourists going for a Darwin Award


44 posted on 07/22/2009 7:13:26 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: SoDak

What are the plants that smells next to the prarie dogs mounts ?


45 posted on 07/22/2009 7:15:54 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: RichInOC

Aren’t they just beautiful? Wow what a picture.


46 posted on 07/22/2009 8:03:10 PM PDT by waxer1 ( "The Bible is the rock on which our republic rests." -Andrew Jackson)
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To: george76

When we were in the Black Hills back in 1990 we fianlly ran into the herd one day and stopped to watch them. Westayed far enough away from them to feel somewhat safe (50 ‘ give or take) but there were these foreign tourists that kept getting closer and closer to them to take photos. We got a little nervous and decided to get the H*LL out of there. There were a few bulls that seemed to be getting a little too nervous about the humans getting so close and we were a little afrid they’d change someone or get the herd to stampeed. People can be really stupid with wild animals. They aren’t cows!


47 posted on 07/22/2009 8:08:36 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: george76; martin_fierro

I think this happened before, during the bicentennial.

/rimshot


48 posted on 07/22/2009 8:34:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: LucyT

They lived?

Apparently even Darwin has a sense of sportsmanship.


49 posted on 07/22/2009 9:05:35 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I once saw a tourist who wanted to *pet* a Bison and was gored, instead. He was badly injured, but lived to tell about it.


50 posted on 07/22/2009 9:14:51 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: george76; Daffynition; RichInOC; JoeProBono; HangnJudge; LucyT

51 posted on 07/22/2009 9:34:14 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored

52 posted on 07/22/2009 9:49:11 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Nervous Tick; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Maybe the bison thought he was attractive.

"Admit it, son: You're not here for the hunting, are you?"



53 posted on 07/22/2009 10:53:46 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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To: george76

I brain tanned a buffalo Hide once. Once was enough. I traded it for a pick up truck. Good trade, that one.


54 posted on 07/23/2009 12:04:02 AM PDT by BruceysMom
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To: SoDak

The only bison I want to get within 10 feet of are the ones in Custer every year.

The fiberglass ones the artists paint.


55 posted on 07/23/2009 12:50:43 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
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To: LucyT

“Let’s drag!”


56 posted on 07/23/2009 12:53:47 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
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To: dayglored

57 posted on 07/23/2009 4:10:38 AM PDT by Daffynition ("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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To: LizardQueen
"idiots"

Some years ago a French tourist was killed by an irate bull buffalo when the tourist decided to get his picture taken with his arm resting against the beast. Naturally the beast declined to cooperate and gored the feckless tourist to death.

58 posted on 07/23/2009 4:25:36 AM PDT by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

There is a nice buffalo ranch near here, and they dress the meat for sale (you don’t have to haul a side home if you don’t want to). We usually have roasts and Italian sausages in the freezer from there. We eat low carb, so they keep some fattier cuts for us too. It is delicious.


59 posted on 07/23/2009 5:19:14 AM PDT by TheOldLady (0bama -- Beloved of the Morningstar)
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To: RichInOC

Yes, they’re still p*ssed about all that slaughtering, first by the aborigines and then the settlers.

Buffalo Reparations!!


60 posted on 07/23/2009 5:23:14 AM PDT by TheOldLady (0bama -- Beloved of the Morningstar)
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