It is Goring season again

[steelslaver]

A 25-year-old woman was gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park on Monday morning, officials said.

A bison was walking near a boardwalk at Black Sand Basin, just north of the Old Faithful geyser, when a tourist approached it, coming within 10 feet. The wild animal then gored the woman and tossed her 10 feet into the air, according to a press release from the National Park Service.

The unnamed woman, who was visiting from Grove City, Ohio, sustained a puncture wound among other injuries, the agency said. She was transported via ambulance to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls.

10 ft. There were also 2 other nit wits within 25 yards of the same Bull and hey its calving time. Duh. News flash Bison injure more people in the Park every year than the bears.

Every once in the while I think about going to the park, find some on the road, put on some skates and show that you can roller skate in a buffalo herd. But, I am SURE it is a BAD idea and you wouldn't do it for very long. I am kind of amazed nobody has tried it for a U tube video

 

[jscheck]

Do stupid things earn stupid prizes! The age of cell phone "selfies" is weeding out at least SOME of the idiots.

 

[Breakaway500]

"Does the dog bite?" Stick your hand out and see...

Watched the movie Idiocracy the other day. We are living through those times today..

 

[yeti]

She paid the price.
What part of stay a safe distance from the bison did she not understand?

 

[THE PILGRIM]

At Yellowstone- Saw some humanoids standing on the edge of a road looking down into the ditch.
I slowed down and looked.
There was a huge Bull Elk on his knees munching grass. He was pointed at the folks on the road.
I told my Bride, if somebody spooks that Boy, he'll jump up and head onto the road.
And take out a 8 foot swath of stupid.

 

[AJ]

You can't fix stupid! Yellowstone is not a petting zoo!

 

[Inusuit]

News this morning says the woman died from her injuries.

I was in Yellowstone on May 14th. The usual traffic jam because a big grizzly was about 40 yards off the road. Close enough that I would not get out of my truck but the edge of the road was crowded with tourons.

 

[steelslaver]

tourons. I like that one.

Nobody that knows cattle will get within 10ft of most "domestic" range bulls on foot without good cause. Especially when it is around cows and calves. They have knocked more than one horse down. Look at rodeo bulls and they are used to being handled. Even the clowns who have tons of experience have barrels

 

[jeffrefrig]

The water shortage seems to have affected the gene pools, too.

 

[Travis Montana]

A few years ago as we were driving up to the lodge we saw a first aid helicopter flying out. When we got to the lodge we found out a buffalo had taken a run down one of the boardwalks that had a fence on both sides to keep them out. Everyone jumped the fence successfully except one guy in a wheelchair. He did get gored, but his wife did jump the fence and left him. Makes you wonder who planned that Yellowstone trip.

 

[OLDSTER]

About ten years ago, we were on a motorcycle tour of Yellowstone. We stopped to watch some Bison grazing far out in a large meadow. A big sign, right there in the parking area read "DO NOT APPROACH BISON. THEY ARE DANGEROUS AND UNPREDICTABLE." On the local news in Cody that evening, we learned that a tour bus full of Norwegian tourists had stopped at that spot. A lady walked 50 yards out in the meadow to snap a photo of a big bull. As she was walking back to the bus, she was blind sided by the bull, was gored and thrown up in a tree. She died at the scene. We have lots of Bison in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western ND. They go where and do what they want, and most tourists know better than to mess with them.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

The water shortage seems to have affected the gene pools, too.

There is no water shortage in Grove City, because they are downstream from one of Columbus' waste water treatment plants!

Ivan

 

[Golddollar]

Every once in the while I think about going to the park, find some on the road, put on some skates and show that you can roller skate in a buffalo herd. But, I am SURE it is a BAD idea and you wouldn't do it for very long. I am kind of amazed nobody has tried it for a U tube video

I haven't heard a reference to that song in years!

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI-8hst0bho[/ame]

 

[16thVACav]

You better be tough if you're going to act stupid.

 

[NYlakesider]

Its so easy to get on the Darwin committees list of potential winners!

 

[steelslaver]

Years ago 3 young buffalo bulls from the Black Hills decided to go on walk about. They showed up south of Miles City, MT about 240 miles from their start point. There are a lot of barb wire fences in between. Yellowstone park has a excess population of about 900-1000 more buffalo than it should have. Heaven forbid anyone should talk about shooting them.


There is a lot of natural wonder in the park, but maybe even more human interference, $$$$ and stupid.

 

[boykinlp]

I hope that when a wild animal, does what comes naturally when they encounter stupid people, is not "put down" because of public outcry! I know sometimes it is done to dogs that bite folks.
Larry

 

[Rustyt1953]

"Here...hold my frontal lobe and watch this."

 

[Rustyt1953]

"Does the dog bite?"

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qypEulhiHAw[/ame]

 

[ladder13]

We were pretty close in Jellystone, but in a rental car on the roadway with nowhere to go. Bison were everywhere.
No, I did not get out to pet it.

Those things are huge….and ornery.