New Instagram filter tells you when you’re too close to wildlife

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THE JACKSON HOLE TRAVEL & TOURISM BOARD LAUNCHES “SELFIE CONTROL” TO ENCOURAGE RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR TOWARD WILDLIFE

Selfie Control takes an innovative and direct approach to encourage safe visitor behavior with wildlife by reaching visitors through in-destination installations and a new Instagram filter...

...One of the main components of the campaign is an interactive Instagram filter that shows the size the animal should appear through a phone camera if the viewer is the appropriate distance from the wildlife. The filter includes additional safety messaging and call-outs that instruct viewers to stay 100 yards away from bears and large carnivores and 25 yards away from elk, bison, moose, and other small mammals...

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Perhaps they need to add one message that reads, "TOO LATE! YOU'RE DINNER!"

Come to think of it, they could have hired Gary Larson to update this. People listen to Gary :)

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Do they really think that people who get too close have enough sense to tell how many yards away they are? I myself have a depth perception problem and stay away.
Well, I guess they can at least say, "We tried". Might keep the lawyers at bay :rolleyes:

@DougM, re "I think fewer warnings and more Darwinian outcomes is a better practice."

True- natural selection has worked pretty well for millions of years :eek:

Maybe billboards with a picture of the mangled remains of some hapless tourist might have a salutary effect, but unlikely.

For example, up here in Canada, not only do cigarette packages have a pic of tar-filled lungs on them, now some clever clogs in Ottawa have mandated that EACH cigarette must have warning phrases printed on it! In both official languages, of course. I bet there are no reliable statistics on how well this has worked, except perhaps to enrich the coffers of whatever ad agency they hired.
 
When I see something like this, I'm reminded of a quote that goes something like "nothing is idiot proof as idiots can be infinitely resourceful in dreaming up ways of defeating any safety measure".

The one that comes to mind is Stephen Hawking's, "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."
I don't really know whether either is really true, but I'm pretty sure that if one person can create an idiot-proof design, another can design a better idiot.
 
I went to the sturgis bike rally last year and was shocked at how many places sold shirts that had a picture if a buffalo and the writing said "Don't pet the fluffy cows".

The locals said dummies die trying to take selfies with them all the time.
 
I went to the sturgis bike rally last year and was shocked at how many places sold shirts that had a picture if a buffalo and the writing said "Don't pet the fluffy cows".

The locals said dummies die trying to take selfies with them all the time.
I'm a LONG way from any buffalo but I think I want one of those shirts. They're all over the internet in many designs.

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