Another clueless tourist vs Yellowstone wildlife

[anotherVTskibum]

An enterprising person could make some money in a place like Paint Pots. Just like Wrigleyville. What do ya think, $50 for a prime parking spot at Paint Pots?

When the ex and I were leaving the Logan Pass lot at Glacier, in pretty sure we could've gotten $100 for the spot as long as we were winning to fight whichever of the two women who were trying to get the spot lost the auction.

[yeahman]

Logan Pass is a shitshow, even with the reservation system. I remember going to Logan Pass in the 80s in the middle of July and the lot was half full.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Confirmed, it was a Xanterrorist. Crazy shit, like I said before, I would expect one to maybe get stabby, because they were always too destitute to be able to afford a gun.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/07...r-in-the-park/

[byates1]

Get super fucking hammered. Dorm employee w no car most likely. All they do is work and drink. Add in some drugs a fuck this attitude and voila. Pretty sure there is an employee bar where ppl drink their entire pay.

I've heard from multiple ppl never to work for xanterra.

Thankfully he didn't kill any random ppl and was quickly killed by usfs.

[Woolly the Mammoth]

A little bit more information:

https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/this_...3f316984c.html

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Yes, there is an YNP employee pub, which we were banned from. Any time the crew went in there, the workers would quickly start sniping the already thin pickings from the Xanterra talent pool, buying drinks with fat rolls, which always lead to hard feelings from the destitute xanterra males. Inevitably some little dweeb xanterrorist would start in with a construction worker with the predictable results and park police intervention, hence the ban.

Nobody got shot though, which was a surprise because we did have some drunk with guns incidents like any other construction camp. Funny thing was, if you didn't want to work in the park anymore, you could call the HR guy every day for weeks and there never was anywhere they could plug you into. Get a DUI or do some other fuckery in the park and get banned, and suddenly the company had a spot for you on a project closer to home. I think some of these guys actually saw it as an incentive to do some shit to catch charges.

And I'm convinced Xanterra is why West Yellowstone is such a weird place, after the season is over a lot of the skeezier ones get marooned there because they don't have enough money to get home, or anywhere else.

[leroy jenkins]

This is so sad. Violence in the national parks is so rare.

A couple years ago, I passed through that area, met a girl who worked the entry station and lived in those same employee apartments, had a little fling, and crashed at her place for a bit. I lost touch with her, and lost her number, don't do facebook etc, but she was right around the same age of the woman held at gunpoint, 28, so this hits home a bit hard for me. Hope it wasn't her, but at the same time, it was someone.

I also feel horrible for the cops that had to shoot the guy. A few cops out there have a murder boner and are just waiting to ice someone, but Park service LEO are typically just good people with servants hearts that probably have nightmares about this now.

[Core Shot]

I did not realize the park service was that armed.

What a world.

[leroy jenkins]

This is so sad. Violence in the national parks is so rare.

A couple years ago, I passed through that area, met a girl who worked the entry station and lived in those same employee apartments, had a little fling, and crashed at her place for a bit. I lost touch with her, and lost her number, don't do facebook etc, but she was right around the same age of the woman held at gunpoint, 28, so this hits home a bit hard for me. Hope it wasn't her, but at the same time, it was someone.

I also feel horrible for the cops that had to shoot the guy. A few cops out there have a murder boner and are just waiting to ice someone, but Park service LEO are typically just good people with servants hearts that probably have nightmares about this now.

[leroy jenkins]

I did not realize the park service was that armed.

What a world.

Every LEO has all that shit in their car. Training is another story, but we're looking at, what handguns and a carbine or two?

[paulster2626]

More guns would probably help. Should try that.

[m2711c]

moar unrestricted gun sales is always teh answer, right leroy?

[anotherVTskibum]

I did not realize the park service was that armed.

What a world.

While not common, there are times where they end needing to use lethal force against the critters. Given the local critters, they probably have a better reason than most to be well-armed.

And that's before you consider that Yellowstone is in three states that all tend towards the well-armed side of the scale.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

FWIW the NP popo are 99.9% of the time a LOOONG ways away from any backup.

[leroy jenkins]

moar unrestricted gun sales is always teh answer, right leroy?

I've never made the argument that more guns will make society safe. I do make the argument that trying to get rid of guns to make the world safe never makes the world safe, and is a slippery slope not just to complete bans on guns, but to more authoritarian government and state violence foreign and domestic, as well as corporate exploitation of people. I also believe people have the right to self defense, and if they really want to off themselves, they shouldn't involve anyone else.

but lets save the gun debate for other threads. If you're capable of restraining yourself from expressing your distorted obsessed idea of what you imagine my views are.

[leroy jenkins]

While not common, there are times where they end needing to use lethal force against the critters. Given the local critters, they probably have a better reason than most to be well-armed.

And that's before you consider that Yellowstone is in three states that all tend towards the well-armed side of the scale.

Critters (and being well funded) actually lead to mnt town cops having all sorts of shit. Had a cop give me a tour of his gear years ago when I was in high school. One dude in a squad car had a sidearm, taser, all that shit on his person, but also, a carbine, a paintball gun with different hoppers for tear gas rounds, and some anti wildlife rounds, as well as a 12g shotgun with rubber buckshot, firecracker, and bean bag rounds for the bears as well as I'm sure slugs and buckshot just in case.


As noted about being a long ways from backup for NP, Game wardens, etc, even small towns, officers are likely to have to deal with bears with one or maybe two officers, including crowd control of humans.

[zion zig zag]

More guns would probably help. Should try that.

moar unrestricted gun sales is always teh answer, right leroy?

Kindly shut the fuck up and see yourself out.

[m2711c]

no.

[Rideski]

Nobody's gonna crack a joke about the perp being a #Floridaman?

[Core Shot]

Living in the heat and humidity of Florida will fry your brain

[anotherVTskibum]

They updated the press release today, apparently he was shooting at a dining facility before being engaged by law enforcement:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p3LdR...ibextid=oFDknk

[yeahman]

I'm glad they killed that piece of shit.

[Harry]

More tomfoolery in Yellowstone…

https://www.cnn.com/travel/submerged...one/index.html



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[byates1]

Mudding in thermals the next big thing.

[pfluffenmeister]

Is that the story?
I can't bring myself to click on the article.