Well, the idiots certainly don't take long to emerge from hiding these days. It only took a matter of hours after Yellowstone National Park opened for the season this weekend for a visiting tourist to walk up to a resting bison and pet it while her partner filmed from a much safer distance away.
While often found in bucolic surroundings, bison are in fact wild animals, and have the ability to inflict great physical harm and even death on humans clueless enough to attempt to interact with them like they would with their own house cat.
While this tourist emerged from her bison interaction unharmed, we here at TGR hope all our audience exercises good judgement when considering petting wild animals, especially those with hooves and horns and which are several times larger than them.
Cover image courtesy of TGR's resident web developer Andrew Wells.
DIGITALDEATH
April 19th, 2016
quit shaming the tourists
let them tour the park
shit
Hodgge
April 20th, 2016
Natural selection taking place before our very eyes
Acadia
April 28th, 2016
I am not sure how intentional it was to have “WOMAN” in this headline of this story. I am sure we have quite a few “MEN” geniuses too in this department of Doing That Amazingly Stupid Thing. I see words like “chick” all over this website and worse women writers using it. Can we harmonize the language of the site a bit more to be inclusive as opposed to making women sound and appear clueless, despite showing them doing pretty cool stuff!
KT
April 29th, 2016
ACADIA - You said: “I am not sure how intentional it was to have “WOMAN” in this headline of this story.”
You cant be serious? THIS story is about a stupid FEMALE who walked up to a bison and pet it like it was her neighbor’s dog. Those are the facts. Your post suggests perhaps there are men who are stupid too. Well, no Sh*t. You forgot your cape Capt. Obvious.
Take your bs equality argument elsewhere and not because women’s equality is not important, but because THIS story has nothing to do with women’s equality. I didn’t watch the video and think “women are dumb”, I thought “Gee, that person is an idiot. I wonder if she will die”. If it was a man, I would have thought the same thing. You are actually the person focusing on the fact it was woman. The sex of an idiot has nothing to do with the fact that person is an idiot.
Its mind-boggling how pathetic that was.
Acadia
April 29th, 2016
Maybe it did not. Maybe with the sprinkling of other “chick” references, I felt there was a certain trend. I would have even said, “Gee, thanks for clarifying.”
But it’s equally mind-boggling how a person who “writes” stories online cannot handle comments from readers (no matter how much they contradict your intentions), and respond with grace and dignity. “Take your bs equality argument elsewhere…”, really? Very Cultured! Well, all the best to you!
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Former Managing Editor at Teton Gravity Research, current Senior Contributor, current professional hippy at the Sierra Club, and avid weekend recreationalist.
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