Young woman gored by Bison - why are people so stupid?

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Play stupid games and win stupid prizes. What is up with grown people ignoring warning signs and messing around where wild animals are?

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Anonymous wrote:I work closely with the NPS, this is very, very common. LOTS of people die each year in National Parks due to their own negligence. I think a lot of people aren't savvy about wildlife or nature and it's their first time in a rural, natural place. City people thinking it's an amusement park. NPS has tons and tons of signs everywhere about bison, not walking into hot springs, not walking off the cliff at the Grand Canyon, not getting lost in the woods where there's not cell reception, on and on.

+1 I agree

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Do they have to put the bison down after that? So sad

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My family is from Wyoming. Please, please, please stay on the marked paths at Yellowstone, hold your chidlren's hands and stay far away from the wild life. It's one of the most beautiful places on earth. This makes me so sad .

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Anonymous wrote:9 people also died doing water sports over the holiday weekend (and that's just the major headline news) - respectively 3 parasailing in FL, 5 went over a waterfall in VA, 1 motorboating somewhere.

I consider all risky propositions stupid.

I heard about the 2 who were lost going over a dam in Virginia (out of a group of 12) - are you referring to them or others?

Oh you're right - the 10 others were recovered/made it to shore after going over this.

I don’t get it. They were boating/tubing in the reservoir created by the dam, but the water level was higher then normal so was essentially flooding over?

Wouldn’t there be warning about that?

It's a low head dam. That's a known danger. Don't play around dams seems like common sense.

the outfitting company that probably rented them the gear is to blame.

You need to read the articles referenced above by Mike Row. When people accept responsibility for their own safety, everyone stays much safer. There were many rescues on the water that day but they had a plan to stick to... There is another book about how people in groups make the worst decisions. Groups of people can be dangerous because the lowest iq individual who is assertive often rules. Suspension of disbelief causes people to see a dangerous situation in front of them and ignore it. There was a famous fire in the London tube and people were coming up out of the station on fire and smoke was billowing out, but people proceeded to head down in to the station into the fire because they had some place to be.

I agree. The outfitter is in no way to blame. They were thinking that the customers would use common sense and be aware of the risks.

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Anonymous wrote:I work closely with the NPS, this is very, very common. LOTS of people die each year in National Parks due to their own negligence. I think a lot of people aren't savvy about wildlife or nature and it's their first time in a rural, natural place. City people thinking it's an amusement park. NPS has tons and tons of signs everywhere about bison, not walking into hot springs, not walking off the cliff at the Grand Canyon, not getting lost in the woods where there's not cell reception, on and on.

There are a couple of great books about how people die in some of the larger parks. In the Grand Canyon there are very few death from animals even though they have poisonous snakes etc. Helicopter rides through are notoriously unsafe. Lots of people don't know how their bodies work and not just related to heat. People go sit out on ledges over cliffs and don't realize it is common to experience vertigo or dizziness when you stand up and are at a height, then they tumble down...

Lighting strikes are a big killer of folks in Nat'l Parks.

Also people don't understand how their bodies work wrt water. When folks on white water rafting trips get dumped in to the water, they often go into shock because of the cold and they dont react as expected. People can also do a poor job of hydration. If you don't add sugar or something to your water you can cause yourself serious illness.

If you also have snacks available, say granola bars or trail mix, would you need to sugar your water? I'm not familiar with that technique.

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Anonymous wrote:My family is from Wyoming. Please, please, please stay on the marked paths at Yellowstone, hold your chidlren's hands and stay far away from the wild life. It's one of the most beautiful places on earth. This makes me so sad .

She did, from what I've read.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/01/yellowstone-bison-gores-woman/

It sounds like she died because she walked up to a bison, probably for a photo, and it gored her. I just don't understand how people can be so stupid. It's just incredible. She threw her life away for nothing.

She didn’t die. Did you actually read the story?

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I mentioned twice upthread that there’s no reports that the women died yet people seem to be concocting bizarre scenarios.

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She was gored and thrown. She did not die. Read the story.

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Anonymous wrote:Where does it say that bison woman has died?

It doesn’t. People are interpreting “gored” as “died” when in fact no where does it state she died.

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Anonymous wrote:Where does it say that bison woman has died?

It doesn’t. People are interpreting “gored” as “died” when in fact no where does it state she died.

No there was definitely reports all over that stated she died.

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That NBC report has been corrected. The woman is still alive.

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Anonymous wrote:I've done plenty of stupid things in my life and I've been lucky enough to survive. She wasn't lucky.

Those of you who laugh at her either lack empathy, have led very boring lives, or both.

No. We’re just not stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:That NBC report has been corrected. The woman is still alive.

Omg this whole thread shaming her and the woman didn’t even die?