re: 83-year-old South Carolina woman gored by bison in Yellowstone National Park.....

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“(Bison) are unpredictable and can run three times faster than humans and can jump over objects about 5 feet high.,

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Media needs to stop “humanizing” dangerous wild animals on TV, movies, children’s books etc.. These animals are characterized as sweet, soft and cuddly.

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My three year old grandson was just wild about gorillas. He went through an unnaturally long phase of being all about them. We took him to the Seattle zoo, which had a family of gorillas right on the other side of an acrylic glass pane.

The silverback was right next to the divider and about four feet from my grandson. There was a sign saying, “Don’t make eye contact”. Apparently gorillas see that as a challenge. Not only was my grandson making eye contact, he was beating his chest at the silverback. The gorilla got pissed and very suddenly threw his two arms against the plexi-glass divider. It made a hell of a boom, and my grandson froze and started shaking. It was kind of comical, but I scooped him up and got him away.

When he calmed down he started playing around four concrete statues of a gorilla family, but he would not go near that concrete silverback.

I don't know that I've ever seen a more concentrated collection of self-involved and entitled idiots than in the national parks...

I just got back from Grand Teton & Yellowstone. It truly amazes me the number of people (around 50%) that will spend a few thousand on a Wyoming wildlife vacation, but won’t spend a few hundred dollars on a camera with a decent lens so they’re not dependent on a cell phone to get decent pics. It’s a wonder more people don’t get gored/killed..

It's Gore v Bush all over again...

I was in Yellowstone maybe 10 years ago. We were walking near the mud pots and a bison was encircled by a walkway near the parking lot just kinda hanging out trying to figure out how it was going to get out. A crowd had surrendered it mostly on the platform that surrounded it. I got close and reached out my hand to touch its back…after all, how often do you get that chance. As I stretched to touch it, some douche said “don’t do that, it will jump the boardwalk and charge someone”. Don’t do it!

I laughed and tried to reach out further and he said something else. I couldn’t quite reach it and mocked him at how ridiculous his claim was. It kinda sauntered off a few steps and I could no longer reach it.


Baw probably saved everyone’s life by telling me no.

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Some people never learn

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"You're never too old to learn!"
Apparently 83 is the cut off

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Can we bus the illegals to Yellowstone for some bisoning

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Let’s let them finish building our infrastructure and harvesting our crops and such first. No one else is going to do the dirty work.

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As she lay there bleeding she thought she was dying, turned to her boy and said... Bye, Son.

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This deserves a shameless bump.