Video of yesterdays bison attack

[Demovictory9]

[Liberty Belle]

1. What fools. A lone bull bison is a very dangerous animal - they are way too close.

Glad it wasn't the child that got gored.

Yellowstone has signs all over and leaflets warning of this, but too many tourists ignore the warnings.

It's especially dangerous in a geyser field, since one could get hurled into essentially a cauldron of boiling sulfuric water; the crust around there is very thin and every so often some idiot gets off the wooden paths and dies.

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[Deuxcents]

2. Yes..they were way too close

These people are taking chances with a no win situation..with kids.

[LuckyCharms]

3. I just had a crazy idea!

Now, hear me out here. I now this might sound bizarre, but just give me a chance.

What about keeping a safe distance from wild animals, and respectfully observing and appreciating them from afar, instead of getting all up in their shit like they are a long lost relative who you have just found?

I know that sounds crazy, but...

[2naSalit]

7. One of the...

Quiet mental rants that spun through my brain on a loop for ten hours a day when I worked there! I shit you not!

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Did one of those men drop the kid before running away?

[Demovictory9]

11. Looks like it

[Johnny999r]

28. Dumb humans

Yes, the guy left the kid behind to save his own ass, what a coward. I've watched quite a few Yellowstone videos as I want to take my daughter there some day. It's obvious the park authorities post multiple warnings regarding this very stupid thing people do. Knowing how many Americans are, if someone got hurt a lawsuit against the park service would be forthcoming. If I were on the jury I would vote against the stupid Darwinian humans. Check the history of the very near extinction of the American Bison, it took a short ten years for people to slaughter millions of them to where only a few small isolated Buffaloes were discovered luckily by compassionate early conservationists. They captured and relocated these survivors to secret locations and started a breeding program that ultimately saved the species from extinction. Man has not changed much on the negative side of this, humans are the cause of wildlife extinction still to this day. Greed again is the motivation with population explosion another major contributor. On top that, wildlife are being hammered by climate change as well. Please do something for them by donating what you can to respected wildlife conservation organizations.

[duforsure]

5. Use to visit the park a lot, and people are crazy,

We watched a guy walk up to a bear within 25 ft for a picture, and someone in the crowd far away turned him in, and he was kicked out of the park. Another time a guy went very close to a bison , and I told him he was stupid for doing it. A Park Ranger told me he stopped a family (foreigners) who were walking towards bison to put their kids on the back of one for a photo. These people were careless, especially with a young child.

[2naSalit]

8. It needs to be...

A reservation only park where you don't go in until your reservations. Meanwhile, you should have to attend an orientation so that you are told, in a focused environment, what your responsibilities are as a visitor and what the rules are and that they apply to you, too.

The consequences for messing around with mother nature can and often is serious injury or death.

Every time I see one of these, all I can think of is... fucking idiots.

[tblue37]

13. They think national parks are like Disneyland. A friend once heard another person say,

"Don't be silly. If it were dangerous the government wouldn't allow it."

[2naSalit]

15. Used to hear it...

Several times a day, and I would be standing right there, in uniform, having just explained to them what safety measures they need to keep in mind at all times.

There were days I wished I hadn't stopped smoking pot for that job. I really wanted the job when it was offered, but the tourists made it suck, every day.

[tblue37]

21. Newsweek did an article 20 or 30 years ago about rangers calling such people "tourons"--

a cross between "tourists" and "morons."

[2naSalit]

23. Yup...

Remember it well though I was not with NPS, I surely had my fair share of them working summers in touristwerld. First I ever heard it was in 1992.

When everyone else started using that term, we had a better one, swivelheads.

[mn9driver]

9. There is about 5 seconds of video before this that shows the bison charging the group from about 25

Or 30 yards away. They were still too close, but they were further away than the edited video makes it appear.

https://www.kktv.com/2022/06/29/watch-colorado-springs-man-gored-by-bison-yellowstone-unclear-if-he-was-too-close-or-trying-help-others-who-were-too-close-before-incident/

[inthewind21]

14. All this video

shows is they are even stupider than originally thought.

[Bettie]

10. Why do they get so close?

From the video it is SO obvious that they were far too close as seems to be the case with all of these incidents.

[we can do it]

12. Fucking idiot.

“Protect his child” my ass. Fucking idiot should have protected his child by staying a safe distance from wild animals.

[2naSalit]

17. +1

[Stuart G]

18. Here is the real problem.."These idiots don't think the bison at Yellowstone is a ..."wild animal"

That is the entire problem. They may think that a bear at Yellowstone is a "wild animal" but not a bison. I was once at
a campsite in Yellowstone, and a moose came up to a fence near the campsite. And the campers fed the moose and got
close to it. It was a wild moose.?? No one was hurt that I could tell. I stayed away from the moose. Why? It was
a "wild moose.".

[tblue37]

22. That Newsweek article I mentioned above also described a father who smeared honey on his

3-year-old's cheek so he could get Chinese picture of a bear "kissing" her!

[we can do it]

27. You said think😂

[867-5309.]

16. He's damn lucky it wasn't worse n/t

[peggysue2]

19. I saw this same ridiculous behavior in the Smoky Mountain National Park

Only there it was with black bears.

The one incident occurred at Cades Cove, a popular tourist area, where a woman with a child (maybe four or five) in tow chased down a Mommy Bear for a photo op. The woman was urging the child to get close to the baby bears for a picture. Mommy bear was none too pleased. Witnesses to the insanity (myself included) were yelling at the woman to back off. It wasn't until the female bear started to chuff and huff that the woman grabbed the child and walked back to a safer distance.

They were very lucky. The child could have easily been killed with a single swipe and the woman could have been ripped to pieces.

Why tourists think wild animals are passive, live in the wild for their amusement is mind-boggling.

But they frequently do and we end up with infuriating vids like this one.

[maxsolomon]

20. They got off easy.

Back the fuck up, give the Bison space. Don't think you can sidle past on the boardwalk. Wait, or go back the other way.

I wonder if the small break from the tourist hordes the herds got from the flooding made the return that much more irritating to them.

[tblue37]

24. It looks as though they thought at first they could scare the bison into moving away.

[2naSalit]

26. I think the flooding...

Affected them and irritants like tourists are just too much for them. They are pretty smart beings and the flooding could well have stressed them out too.

They can be ornery as it is. I have been charged and stampeded and I was not thrilled in a good way but it was my job to be there. If you are anywhere within a quarter mile, you still have to keep an eye on them. The one that charged me was over a hundred yards away and waited until I turned my back for ten seconds.

[Stuart G]

25. Wild animals ...are ..."wild animals" ....a story about a ..."wild animal"...about 40 years

ago, I took a trip to Jasper National Park in Canada. I camped out with a friend... Late at night or maybe, it was 3am in the morning...a dog was barking very loud, and he woke everyone in the camp up.
So, I went over to the owner of the dog, at around 7:30am when I finally got up and walked around the camp site. The owner said............are you ready?.....

........."There was a bear in the campsite, that is why the dog barked so loud"..."A bear?".... near or in a campsite in
Jasper National Park in Canada?....Is that possible? A bear looking for food? How could that be? Don't you see,
bears are not allowed in campsites...Don't they know the rules. 1974 almost 50 years ago, I remember it well.
You know now that I think of it, I like that dog who was barking in Jasper National Park. Great dog, stupid me.

If you don't know where Jasper National Park is in Canada, then take a look at a map. It is in the middle of the Canadian
Rocky Mountains...a place for bears & not necessarily for people..