Bears and Stupid People in Yellowstone

[Bailey Guns]

What goes through most people's minds when they encounter potentially dangerous wildlife? RUN!

Do people think wildlife is harmless because it's in a park?

Video of bears reacting to stupid people reacting to bears:

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/05/10/tourists-get-chased-by-black-bears-in-yellowstone-national-park/21181614/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Reportedly, the tourists had gotten too close to a black bear sow and her cubs and that's when the animals got agitated.

Get between a [mother] and [offspring] bear, other animal, or even human, and you deserve what you get. $0.02

[Zombie Steve]

I do enjoy watching the sweathog tourists speed-waddling in fear.

[tmckay2]

wow. thats like obese central. its kind of hilarious to see them run, probably the first time they've done that in a good few decades. i think the bears were just trying to help them out.

[XC700116]

Idiots are lucky it was black bears and not a grizz and her cubs, it'd have been a blood bath.

[Mtn.man]

The Bears got a good laugh.

[ANADRILL]

Yosemite is worse. When I worked there the tourist would do all types of crazy shit...

[Zombie Steve]

Last time I was in the Lamar valley in Yellowstone, a guy held up traffic for a solid 20 minutes to photograph a coyote. Unfortunately, he pretty much hit every Asian stereotype there is.

[Firehaus]

I'm never amazed anymore by the stupidity of people in national parks. I've seen way to many people who think it's a petting zoo.


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[Zombie Steve]

My wife used to work in Yellowstone, and had a co-worker that thought they put the animals in cages at night.

[roberth]

My wife used to work in Yellowstone, and had a co-worker that thought they put the animals in cages at night.

Oh my gawd, does the stupid never end.

[Firehaus]

Oh my gawd, does the stupid never end.

Nope. Sounds like a typical living in fairytale land liberal.


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[SNAFU]

Alaska,,ids stop to take picture of mama moose and calf.
Their rottie gets out to chase/bark at moose.
Never seen a Rottweiler run away so fast.
Much less those waddling tourist.
Dawin really needs to reward these type idiots.

[wctriumph]

I was driving through Yellowstone from Jackson to Cody and I come around a corner and there are people stopped right in the road, both sides, completely blocking the highway. There was plenty of shoulder to park on and I know this because that is where I went to avoid hitting anyone. There was a big old Grizzly waaayyy over on the other side of the river and everyone was over on the riverbank taking pic's of the bear that at least 100 yards away. Then there was the Bison herd crossing the road and people were out of their cars walking within 10 feet taking pictures and making mooing like cows.

My next trip through was in April, the year after the fire. It was snowing and there was hardly anyone in the park.

[Great-Kazoo]

You don't need to be in a national park to see the stupidity. Take hwy 14 or other 2 laner through the mountains. People will hit their brakes to snap a pic of squirrels.
Or the domino effect car pulls over, a curious driver stops to see what car #1 is looking at, and so one till there's 1/2 dozen cars one the shoulder with people milling around. What did car # 2 and the others see that car #1 pulled over for. Car 1 stopped to let their dogs run through the creek. AND to toss their trash over the guard rail. INSTEAD of walking the 5 yards to the trash can.

I worked NPS for a season some of my co-workers were as clueless as the tourist.

[RblDiver]

Or the domino effect car pulls over, a curious driver stops to see what car #1 is looking at, and so one till there's 1/2 dozen cars one the shoulder with people milling around. What did car # 2 and the others see that car #1 pulled over for. Car 1 stopped to let their dogs run through the creek. AND to toss their trash over the guard rail. INSTEAD of walking the 5 yards to the trash can.

My mom tells me that back in the day, my great-uncle had a similar issue. He'd stop to take a picture of something, other people would stop too and scare away/ruin whatever it was he was photographing. He started pulling over and popping the hood, at that point noone'd stop.

[Ah Pook]

I was so rooting for the bears.

RMNP has the same type people walking up to elk and calves to take pick.

Don't think this country has an obesity problem? That vid. says a lot.

[TEAMRICO]

Great timing Scouts are getting the "Bear Aware" class from CPW as we speak!!!!

[Duman]

I do enjoy watching the sweathog tourists speed-waddling in fear.

[LOL]

[BushMasterBoy]

Just remember...people are food too!

[BREATHER]

It's these kind of people that make it tough for the real people....the ones with common sense.. These stupid people are teaching their kids to be stupid and it goes on and on and on....

[SuperiorDG]

Exchange student from Taiwan gored by bison in Yellowstone National Park Victim was 3 - 6 feet from animal when gored 2:36 PM, May 16, 2015
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - A 16-year-old girl has been gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park while posing for a picture near the animal.
The National Park Service says the unidentified girl's injuries were serious but not life-threatening.
The agency described her as an exchange student from Taiwan who was visiting the park with her host family.
The incident occurred shortly after noon Friday on Geyser Trail near Old Faithful.
The Park Service says she and others were between 3 and 6 feet from the bison when she turned her back to the bison to have her picture taken. The bison took a couple steps and gored her.
The girl was airlifted to an area hospital.


Park regulations state that visitors must stay at least 25 yards away from bison or elk and 100 yards away from bears and wolves.


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