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Anonymous wrote:I went to Yellowstone and Grand Teton several years ago. DH and I were driving around the park when we came across a whole bunch of people gathered on the side of the road. We drove a little closer to the crowd, and saw a bear in the bushes! People were getting *really* close to it... way too close for comfort, snapping photos, pointing and laughing. We rolled up our windows and kept driving, and a park ranger rolled up, angrily yelling at the crowd to disperse.

The next day, we saw the same phenomenon... tourists getting way too close to a herd of elk on the lawn of a hotel in Mammoth Springs. Again the park rangers had to disperse the crowd, warning everyone that the elk were in mating season.

They were Chinese, weren't they?

Southerners.

Anonymous wrote:Ouch. What a way to go

Apparently, she didn’t die.

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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.

IMO there is a huge difference between going parasailing (assuming reasonable due diligence) and dying because of the negligence of the operator vs walking up to a bison for a photo.

They didn't die through the negligence of an operator. A freak gale spun up and threw the equipment off course. In other words, they died because of Mother Nature just like the woman with the bison.

The operator cut the line which is why they died.

Anonymous wrote:I went to Yellowstone and Grand Teton several years ago. DH and I were driving around the park when we came across a whole bunch of people gathered on the side of the road. We drove a little closer to the crowd, and saw a bear in the bushes! People were getting *really* close to it... way too close for comfort, snapping photos, pointing and laughing. We rolled up our windows and kept driving, and a park ranger rolled up, angrily yelling at the crowd to disperse.

The next day, we saw the same phenomenon... tourists getting way too close to a herd of elk on the lawn of a hotel in Mammoth Springs. Again the park rangers had to disperse the crowd, warning everyone that the elk were in mating season.

They were Chinese, weren't they?

We were staying at a remote lodge in Alaska, which one reached by a small ferry or, in an emergency, helicopter. We were hiking on a ridgeline, watching a few bears way below us, when a helicopter buzzed in on a wildlife tour. They actually landed and a woman got out of the craft and started going after one of the bears. The bears were fired up by the noise and this one started to come after her, but then stopped. She made it back to the craft and they took off. The two guides leading our group took down the helicopter's tail numbers and reported them to the park service.

From what I observed, Alaska guides enjoying finding wildlife and pointing it out to the "tourons," but many have a healthy dose of fear and sense of lethality if things go the wrong way, so appreciate distance.

I went to Yellowstone and Grand Teton several years ago. DH and I were driving around the park when we came across a whole bunch of people gathered on the side of the road. We drove a little closer to the crowd, and saw a bear in the bushes! People were getting *really* close to it... way too close for comfort, snapping photos, pointing and laughing. We rolled up our windows and kept driving, and a park ranger rolled up, angrily yelling at the crowd to disperse.

The next day, we saw the same phenomenon... tourists getting way too close to a herd of elk on the lawn of a hotel in Mammoth Springs. Again the park rangers had to disperse the crowd, warning everyone that the elk were in mating season.

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

You can't expect a national news organization to get the story correct. Journalism is hard with all the spelling and grammar!

“Journalism” has lowered itself in the US to the lowest common denominator.

At which grade level is it currently?

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Anonymous wrote:In Yellowstone, I think you're lulled into a false sense of safety. Most of the bison stand around like cows. They're not kept separate from people. And if the lady was on the boardwalk, it's because you have to be careful around the hot springs, which are also very dangerous.

If they know these loose bison and hot springs are dangerous, shouldn’t they DO something about them!?

I think you're joking, but, if you aren't, you should totally do a yelp review of the park.

DP. We could just close the park. How many lives have to be lost to this park? Zero seems acceptable. There is no benefit to keeping the park open.

Again? Hilarious.

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.

Please. I have plenty of empathy for people who deserve it. If you make a really stupid decision, that’s your problem, not mine.

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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?

We can still shame her, esp if SHE approached the wildlife. I was at Yellowstone a few years' back and there was always at least one dumbass going up to the wildlife, to get a closer look.
Goring doesn't sound that good either. And she was tossed 10 feet.

Anonymous wrote:

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

You can't expect a national news organization to get the story correct. Journalism is hard with all the spelling and grammar!

I have worked with and known innumerable journalists/reporters.

I am no longer shocked at how dumb most of them are.

Despite being surrounded by the news all day, most lack comprehension or an ability to process the information they regurgitate to you.

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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.

That’s one report. on twitter.

Anonymous wrote:

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

You can't expect a national news organization to get the story correct. Journalism is hard with all the spelling and grammar!

Oh, thank god.

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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.

yes, I'm not blaming her. Sometimes terrible things happen. But there are people who go off the paths and don't realize the geo thermal danger. With the buffalo, I have seen so many antics at the park. We have sat in disbelief in our car as we watched people sprinting back to their cars, their children hysterically crying, because they got out to 'check out' the wildlife more closely. As you drive through Yellowstone you come close to many herds. It's unbelievable how people will behave. It may be that this was a one in a million event. My heart goes out to her and her family. It is so sad.

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

You can't expect a national news organization to get the story correct. Journalism is hard with all the spelling and grammar!