Yellowstone's Idiot Tourists Are Out Of Hibernation

[marmar]

Yellowstone's Idiot Tourists Are Out Of Hibernation (Approach Grizzly)




Here we go. Are you ready? Are you prepared for another year of tourists at Yellowstone National Park risking their lives to capture up-close pictures of bears, elk, and bison?

Yellowstone is slowly starting to reopen sections of the park as spring weather melts the winter snow, and it seems like the tourists are wasting no time in returning to their dangerous shenanigans.

They’ve awoken from hibernation, and are already parking their cars on the side of the road to snap pictures of a grizzly bear. WARNING- This video will make you cringe with anxiety…

Video link: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccg9yNYNFwd/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=dc918384-260c-4ca1-a0e7-7047d8309625

It’s like they walk into Yellowstone and all of their evolutionary instincts about survival immediately dissipate. ...............(more)

https://unofficialnetworks.com/2022/04/20/yellowstone-idiot-tourists-hibernation/

[halfulglas]

1. How about the ones that throw debris and even folding chairs into the geysers?

They apparently want to "see some action" or something but they have so much debris in them they don't shoot water as far as they used to. We just can't have nice things around "ordinary Americans."

[Jirel]

2. Aw, come on!

EVERYONE knows Yellowstone is nature-Disney with sweet, tame animals that tourists can pet, and fountains you can bathe in ‘cuz they’re warm!

[erpowers]

10. That Is Mainly What I Was Thinking

Things like this happen because too many Americans and maybe too many people from around the world have a Disney view of the world and wildlife. It is very possible people do not know how dangerous wildlife is because they have watched too many Disney movies and cartoons with talking and tame animals that are friends with humans. Yes, they realize the animals cannot talk, but they might believe wildlife is friendly. Some people really seem to think wild animals are like humans.

I assume you are being sarcastic, but I think some people might not know how wild animals actually act. As a result they try to interact with animals when the probably should not interact with the animals.

[Dial H For Hero]

14. I recall reading about a young woman who thought just that. Seriously.

When I asked why she had approached a bison that subsequently attacked her, she said something to the effect of “I just wanted to pet it. I didn’t think they would have allowed wild animals in a park.”

[Delmette2.0]

3. It never occurs to them that the bear maybe ...

hungry and grumpy.

[BlueIdaho]

4. It never occurs to them

A bear can run faster and further than they can.

[Delmette2.0]

6. LOL

[albacore]

8. Worse than that..... during hibernation, they don't urinate or defecate. Grumpy doesn't EVEN! nt

[Delmette2.0]

11. Ok you win. LOL

That was the best comment for me to wake up to.

[Skittles]

5. I remember in 2011 when three young people went over Vernal Falls

seems like they were trying to get a photo op so they crossed the barrier and were actually in the water, 25 feet from the edge.....that surface is like glass, they lost their footing and then their lives....so tragic and ridiculously avoidable

[Demovictory9]

7. gotta to get that good photo for social media

[frogmarch]

9. Soon to be followed by

Black Hills tourists getting depantsed by bison.

[VGNonly]

12. The Darwin Games

In 2010 I was at Zion NP. Two bubbas launched a driftwood raft into the flooding Virgin River. They found their bodies a few days later.

[FSogol]

13. I recounted this story on DU back in 2012:

I saw that in person one time.

Gran Teton NP in the 1980s. Guy silently walks up, sets a four year old on the back of a bison and steps back to take a photo. Bison takes off and charges right thru the guy. Guy suffers a broken arm, nose, and cracked ribs. Crying kid tumbles off the back of the bison, unharmed. It happened so fast, I couldn't even shout a warning. Park Ranger called him a F'ing dumbass as they loaded him into an ambulance.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/1002374545#post28

[Angleae]

15. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Darwinism at it's best.

[Javaman]

16. let the goring begin! nt

[Aristus]

17. How many of them are going to parboil themselves in the hot springs this year?

"Ooh looky, Lurlene! It's a natural hot tub! Hold m'beer 'n' watch this!..."