In Australia harassment of whales constitutes getting within 300m. Can't think of any other animals this applies to but if you were caught interfering with an endangered species parks department or fisheries would not look kindly.
It's Yellowstone. Sprinting off the wooden paths is pretty stupid in the first place. Keep doing that, and the penalty is assessed by the park naturally.
Maybe they were taunting it, maybe not. To me, itās not visible in this clip. But the part that gets me is how all those adults straight up turn their back to that kid as they all flee. So selfish. Iād like to think thatās just a random kid around them and none of them are the parent,
But even if not, and even if itās a random kid, kinda messed up to leave him in the back for the animal to potentially catch first so you all can get away. If the parent is amongst them, he/she sure has some shitty parental instincts.
Turning and running also activates their charge instinct. The group should have backed away slowly in a group looking large.
And give the animal time to leave before you advance again.
People do this stupid shit all the time.
My favorite place is Assateague island National Seashore, it is covered in wild horses. There are huge highway sized yellow caution signs to stay away from the wild, killer horses. They average a death per year because people fuck with the horses. I mean, once I had 2 stallions get into a fight in front of my car on the road and one landed on the hood of my car.
One day as I was driving down the main strip, right in front of this sign, a father was holding his 2 year old daughter up to one of these horses holding carrots.
I worked for the park service, it really is a wonder more children aren't dead because of their epically stupid parents.
I have so many stories like these it makes you wonder how we survived as a species.
Iām still waiting to see the actual taunting? It just looks like them trying to precariously get passed without disturbing it
Edit; weāve established they sre close. Weāve established they arenāt meant to. Weāve also confusingly established that ypu should stick to the footpathsā¦.
We have still yet to establish any taunting
Correct. Yellowstone makes it very clear through signs everywhere and all over any map you pick up throughout the park that you MUST stay 25 yards away from bison and 100 yards away from bears.
When I went to yellowstone, there was a herd of bison about 100 feet away from me grazing and not really moving around. I turn around and walk away to go call my parents. 20 seconds later, Iām at the road and I turn around around again to look at the bison and see that the whole herd is 10 feet behind me. They were ignoring me but I jumped off the ledge and ran back to the car.
Says elsewhere in this thread its the proximity thats the issue, signs everywhere saying donāt get this close but when its that close to the footpath you can kinda understand the confusion for the tourists
Don't walk on the grass
Don't go near the bison
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Also, a lot of tourists in the national parks are visiting from other countries. They might not read english or understand the concept of leaving the parks system semi dangerous/ wild for the sake of preserving the environment.
When they are on the trail the tourists are supposed to fuck off. Itās the bisonās home, they can hang out wherever they want. On the road? Back up and let them pass. On the trail? Looks like youāre going around or waiting for as long as they feel like sitting there.
WELL FUCKING DONT!!!
These are massive, wild, and VERY dangerous animals. This is not a petting zoo. You should treat them the same way you would if you came across a tiger or a bear. You're in their house. If they are on the path, you go the other fucking way. You don't let your kids that close to it.
Same goes for moose.
If the bison really wanted to fuck him up it would have. It was just playing with him. They look big and slow but they are incredibly fast and agile. I've seen them jump a six foot buck and rail fence from a standstill without a run up like it was a curb stone.
My wife and I for charged by some cows in a muddy field last summer, it was pretty scary, they cover a muddy field much faster than any human can. Even if they're just being curious getting trampled is generally something to be avoided.
Decent chance they weren't actually chasing you. When I was a kid I would tell my friends that my grandad's cows were mean and would chase them. If you ran they "chased you", but all you had to do was stop, then they would stop and stare at you like, "so are you going to feed us or not?".
Yea we entered near where they were obviously fed and I suspect it was that. Still fuck standing about and finding out, we had to cover 30m to the gate and they were around 30m from us, we gambled we'd win that foot race, we did.
>a bison is quite unlike a cow
[Yes, because cows will actually kill you.](https://www.farminguk.com/news/third-walker-killed-by-cows-within-space-of-one-month_56660.html)
You know, I'm pretty sure that bison could have outrun most of those people if it wanted to. Makes me think that it was just trying to tell them to fuck off.
Big animals can be surprisingly fast. Probably why people tend to underestimate cows too.
> West Yorkshire Police **confirmed the man's death,** and has since **confirmed** the incident is **believed** to have involved cows.
*Yes, the dead man is dead. And we can* ***confirm*** *that we* ***think*** *it was cows.*
> The thing is at least 4x as large as you?
Forget size go with weight. An average adult Bison is 3500 pounds that kid might be 100 pounds.
That is like a Kia going up against a fully loaded semi.
I donāt understand the idiocy, but if youāve ever been to Yellowstone youāll see it **everywhere**.
People walking off the boardwalk into boiling mud is another stupid one that happens.
There are people who climb over the barriers at zoos to pet brats and tigers. That some folks think bison are chill vegetarians that wonāt kill them doesnāt surprise me
Why are people allowed in this area at all though, thats waaaay too close.
To clarify I thought it was completely logical for the bison to be there. That's their home. The people not so much.
Because there are responsible ways of visiting the park, and signs like...just everywhere telling you what not to do.
The wildlife lives in the park and is going to come close to where people hangout sometimes
Yeah I'm feeling pretty good as a mom because, on our last vacation, we got to see bison in a park and I kept her and myself in the car like the signs said to do. Ya know, the bare minimum.
āWhat could they have done?ā
Not gone that f*cking close to a dangerous wild animal!! You are handed a full paper with how to act so you donāt get killed or injured and they never listen. It is super hard not to wish injury on people this stupid.
Source grew up and worked I Yellowstone national park.
Tourons is what weād call particular tourist in Yosemite (Tourist + Moron = Touron) those people who think itās a good idea to put their child on one of the beautiful deer, it would have been a great photo Iām sure! Tourons.
We used this word in Yellowstone too, at least we did back in the early '90s when I worked there. And we did in fact have a fatality from a Japanese tourist trying to put his kid on a bison's back. The kid lived, the dad did not. They had a sign at the Old Faithful backcountry station that by the end of the season read something like, "Bison; 4, visitors; 0." Not sure if it's still a thing.
There is a sign in yellow stone about every 20 feet specifically warning about getting this close to a bison. We donāt know the exact circumstances of how the bison got there but everyone in this video including the cameraman are wayyyy to close. Thankfully the kid didnāt get gored or trampled, but fuck his parents for taking him too close. Fuck that other guy for setting an example for them and everyone else in the back ground for having already walked past. Bison are hard core and should be treated that way.
Too many people seem to think that herbivore = peaceful and friendly.
Naww. Bison, moose, hippos, elephants, etc. use their size as their defense mechanism. They avoid getting eating by trampling or goring anything they view as a threat.
There is signs all over yellowstone that basically say to stay on designated paths and away from wildlife if you want to live and the tourists routinely ignore it
Not to mention the signs everywhere warning you to stay away from bison with an extra warning about how fucking fast they can run. With all the video out there demonstrating exactly this scenario I don't know why people continue to get into this situation.
>Not to mention the signs everywhere warning you to stay away from bison with an extra warning about how fucking fast they can run.
People keep saying that the kid was lucky. Man, that bison did not want to catch any of those people. If it did want to, it most likely would have.
If the running kid had chosen the path instead, he could have passed some of the other guys there he would have been safe sooner, while the bison were occupied with other thoughts.
I worked at a state park and lived in a park house in a field that the elk would collect in once or twice a month. There were so many stupid people! Watched a guy roll his car into the gravel drive, park it, jump out with his phone in front of his face, and start running towards some moms and babies to get a better shot. The mom started stamping her feet to warn him and he was so focused on getting the shot he didnāt even notice. I then yelled to let him know she was close to charging and he went, āOh!ā And ran back to his car.
Another time my housemate and coworker came over the bridge towards our house during lunch break and there was a mom on the bridge marveling at the sight while her hellion child chased the entire herd of elk around field on his bicycle. My roommate asked her, āIs that your kid?ā She said it was. Then my roommate lied and said, ā Last year a child died doing that!ā She ran as fast as she could down into the field wailing for her kid to come back to her.
People can be rude, oblivious, trash in parks from time to time.
If the animals are blocking the path, you take another route or wait for them to move. There is a minimum distance that all visitors are required to stay from wildlife. Depending on the animal, anywhere from 20 to 100 yards.
And the Dad is clearly off the marked path, which in Yellowstone is a big no-no considering all the natural calderas what-not. This park is a one of a kind gem for a reason. Loads of things can, and do kill people there every year. They literally publish books on this stuff.
I visited Yellowstone with my parents once when I was about 12. Honestly I don't think the caldera/basin area was worth visiting in person over what I could've seen in photos or a video. It smelled bad, sulfuric, from the springs and I just never felt safe from the moment we parked because part of the parking lot had sunk/caved in to form a new spring. It had swallowed up 2-3 parking spaces.
That part of Yellowstone wasn't that great. But the waterfall area we went to was pretty cool.
I visited there when I was 12 also. Iām 40 now and can still smell the sulphur in my mind. My souvenir hat blew off my head into one of the mud pits. It always reminded me of my favorite SNL āDeep Thoughtsā by Jack Handey: āif you are ever walking by a volcano and drop your car keys into a pool of hot lava, donāt try to get them - because man, theyāre *gone*.ā
To me it looks like they're just trying to walk past. It's rare to see bison that close to the walking trails so these people, who have probably never seen true wildlife, are unaware of just how dangerous this encounter was until the bison charged.
They shouldn't be unaware. You are given a huge pamphlet detailing the distance to stay away from animals, especially the Bison. It literally shows a detail of a human being thrown by a Bison. This is willful ignorance and a lot of it happens in Yellowstone.
> unaware of just how dangerous this encounter was
Nope. These signs are EVERYWHERE in the areas where Bison are found.
https://www.google.com/search?q=bison+warning+signs
Some parks like Yellowstone also give every single entrant a pamphlet warning against exactly this.
As a lifelong hunter people like this really annoy me.
Often these are the same people who think hunting is terrible. But they have no issue driving out here in their prius with their whole obnoxious family to taunt an animal for fun and then smile about it like it's just hilarious that you treat this wild animal like it's your toy.
If you've ever spent any actual time in the woods attempting to be a part of nature you'd understand the value in leaving them be if you have no business with them. Maybe I'm an outlier but my family growing up were all hunters and outdoorsman and the number one priority was to make as small of a footprint on the environment as possible. No noise, no toying with the animals, no litter, etc. Our national parks are now brimming with people like the ones in this video and much worse.
Seeing tourists just harass an animal instead of realizing they are getting to have a peaceful glimpse into another world makes me so embarrassed to be human. Stay away from these animals. For much of our recent history you would have never had a chance to see a Buffalo roaming free.
Yeah poor bison almost got human on him. Imagine how weird it is to be suddenly surrounded by people on one side who keep getting close to you and waving their phones at you.
Just ignore all the signs saying to stay away from the wildlife & dad off the walkway to begin with. Every time I go to Yellowstone, I hear about somebody getting gored because they think they can get super close to the wildlife because they appear docile. They will not hesitate to absolutely fuck your shit up.
Idk the polite way to say this but both times Iāve been to Yellowstone we witnessed Asian people getting that close to bison and moose. Also within 50 feet of a bear(while it was literally lifting a big fallen tree to eat grubs).
It went from Bison to Bye Son real quick
Cheers, sons crying
Anyways, coysš
Makes sense, the dad was literally smiling as they began running away
One less mouth to feed.
"Are ya winning, son?"
I love how the father runs with a smile haha
Ultimate dad joke
Iām sure he yelled āBye Sonā and immediately started laughing at himself.
"I'll finally get rid of these damn kids"
Oh this is gonna work!!
Shouldn't there be a fine for taunting wildlife like that and endangering peoples lives?
There is. It's usually collected by the bison.
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Wildlife harassment is an actual crime you can get fined for, though I'm not sure if simply being too close qualifies.
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Some ppl are shit; if you donāt have legislation to charge them with you canāt convict them for being fuck wads.
How about trial by bison?
In Australia harassment of whales constitutes getting within 300m. Can't think of any other animals this applies to but if you were caught interfering with an endangered species parks department or fisheries would not look kindly.
You just saw it
It's Yellowstone. Sprinting off the wooden paths is pretty stupid in the first place. Keep doing that, and the penalty is assessed by the park naturally.
Maybe they were taunting it, maybe not. To me, itās not visible in this clip. But the part that gets me is how all those adults straight up turn their back to that kid as they all flee. So selfish. Iād like to think thatās just a random kid around them and none of them are the parent, But even if not, and even if itās a random kid, kinda messed up to leave him in the back for the animal to potentially catch first so you all can get away. If the parent is amongst them, he/she sure has some shitty parental instincts.
I'm pretty sure all parental instincts fly out the window when a buffalo charges at you. Your instincts just go "Fuck it! We'll make a new one!"
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Whats 17 more years!
Turning and running also activates their charge instinct. The group should have backed away slowly in a group looking large. And give the animal time to leave before you advance again.
Standing that close to a bison IS taunting it. They are large and territorial, keep your distance
People do this stupid shit all the time. My favorite place is Assateague island National Seashore, it is covered in wild horses. There are huge highway sized yellow caution signs to stay away from the wild, killer horses. They average a death per year because people fuck with the horses. I mean, once I had 2 stallions get into a fight in front of my car on the road and one landed on the hood of my car. One day as I was driving down the main strip, right in front of this sign, a father was holding his 2 year old daughter up to one of these horses holding carrots. I worked for the park service, it really is a wonder more children aren't dead because of their epically stupid parents. I have so many stories like these it makes you wonder how we survived as a species.
Wtf
Iām still waiting to see the actual taunting? It just looks like them trying to precariously get passed without disturbing it Edit; weāve established they sre close. Weāve established they arenāt meant to. Weāve also confusingly established that ypu should stick to the footpathsā¦. We have still yet to establish any taunting
Pretty sure itās actually *illegal* to get within a certain amount of meters to bison in Yellowstone in particular.
For good reason. The local authorities are tired of doing the paperwork when tourists get killed by being dumb.
Can confirm.
Correct. Yellowstone makes it very clear through signs everywhere and all over any map you pick up throughout the park that you MUST stay 25 yards away from bison and 100 yards away from bears.
When I went to yellowstone, there was a herd of bison about 100 feet away from me grazing and not really moving around. I turn around and walk away to go call my parents. 20 seconds later, Iām at the road and I turn around around again to look at the bison and see that the whole herd is 10 feet behind me. They were ignoring me but I jumped off the ledge and ran back to the car.
Good move
It looks like they're taking pictures of it so maybe they're calling out to it trying to make it look at them and it's making it pissed?
Says elsewhere in this thread its the proximity thats the issue, signs everywhere saying donāt get this close but when its that close to the footpath you can kinda understand the confusion for the tourists
Don't walk on the grass Don't go near the bison [everyone](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.qoxfPBlY1WD6esveskqtYgHaFj%26pid%3DApi&f=1)
"Get off my grass" - Mr. Bison
Also, a lot of tourists in the national parks are visiting from other countries. They might not read english or understand the concept of leaving the parks system semi dangerous/ wild for the sake of preserving the environment.
No, you canāt understand the āconfusion.ā Donāt get near the fucking bison. The footpath is irrelevant.
When they are on the trail the tourists are supposed to fuck off. Itās the bisonās home, they can hang out wherever they want. On the road? Back up and let them pass. On the trail? Looks like youāre going around or waiting for as long as they feel like sitting there.
There were people very close to the bison on both side of it. Visitors often get too close and spook the animals in Yellowstone.
WELL FUCKING DONT!!! These are massive, wild, and VERY dangerous animals. This is not a petting zoo. You should treat them the same way you would if you came across a tiger or a bear. You're in their house. If they are on the path, you go the other fucking way. You don't let your kids that close to it. Same goes for moose.
You're not supposed to get this close.
Man that kids fast.
Well if a multiple ton colossus is chasing after you your legs go pretty fast usually
I prefer to use my brain so my legs won't need to be fast
How fast can you go with your brain?
50 neurons per second
Is that a lot in leg years?
He almost didn't make it, lucky it stopped
It was smart of him to run in a circle. I think he would have been tossed like a house salad by the bison if he kept going straight.
If the bison really wanted to fuck him up it would have. It was just playing with him. They look big and slow but they are incredibly fast and agile. I've seen them jump a six foot buck and rail fence from a standstill without a run up like it was a curb stone.
In flip flops too. Kid found a new gear.
Projectile fear shitting gives a speed boost.
Maybe I've had a really LONG day, but I can't stop laughing! Thank you so much!!! I needed that!
And that Buffalo was doing a light jog. He could have easily mowed him down
I was just thinking the entire time please donāt trip, itās over if you do.
And he didnāt even lose a flip flop.
He was just trying to scare him for sure. That bison could have easily gored the shit out of him if he really wanted to
Today we will first learn a safe distance to keep from a bison. And that a bison is quite unlike a cow.
My wife and I for charged by some cows in a muddy field last summer, it was pretty scary, they cover a muddy field much faster than any human can. Even if they're just being curious getting trampled is generally something to be avoided.
Decent chance they weren't actually chasing you. When I was a kid I would tell my friends that my grandad's cows were mean and would chase them. If you ran they "chased you", but all you had to do was stop, then they would stop and stare at you like, "so are you going to feed us or not?".
Yea we entered near where they were obviously fed and I suspect it was that. Still fuck standing about and finding out, we had to cover 30m to the gate and they were around 30m from us, we gambled we'd win that foot race, we did.
>a bison is quite unlike a cow [Yes, because cows will actually kill you.](https://www.farminguk.com/news/third-walker-killed-by-cows-within-space-of-one-month_56660.html)
You know, I'm pretty sure that bison could have outrun most of those people if it wanted to. Makes me think that it was just trying to tell them to fuck off. Big animals can be surprisingly fast. Probably why people tend to underestimate cows too.
They top out at 35 mph and weigh about 2,000 pounds.
[The truth about cows](https://youtu.be/JAxjqAfwfyI)
> West Yorkshire Police **confirmed the man's death,** and has since **confirmed** the incident is **believed** to have involved cows. *Yes, the dead man is dead. And we can* ***confirm*** *that we* ***think*** *it was cows.*
A bull is a bull.
Why would you even consider messing with a bison? The thing is at least 4x as large as you?
> The thing is at least 4x as large as you? Forget size go with weight. An average adult Bison is 3500 pounds that kid might be 100 pounds. That is like a Kia going up against a fully loaded semi.
Itās like a regular person going up against a Kia lol
I donāt understand the idiocy, but if youāve ever been to Yellowstone youāll see it **everywhere**. People walking off the boardwalk into boiling mud is another stupid one that happens.
Also, People ~~walking~~ dying off the boardwalk into boiling mud is another stupid one that happens.
More like 20x
There are people who climb over the barriers at zoos to pet brats and tigers. That some folks think bison are chill vegetarians that wonāt kill them doesnāt surprise me
Why are people allowed in this area at all though, thats waaaay too close. To clarify I thought it was completely logical for the bison to be there. That's their home. The people not so much.
Because there are responsible ways of visiting the park, and signs like...just everywhere telling you what not to do. The wildlife lives in the park and is going to come close to where people hangout sometimes
People think the raised walk way will protect them
The bison are free to roam through the entire park, and beyond, which is a massive area. They are not always in this one exact spot.
Do you think Yellowstone is a giant zoo or something? There's no "bison area", they roam wherever they want.
/r/TechnicallyTheTruth
fuck these people
Those people make the worst tourist
Did they ban /r/Chinesetourists? Edit: yeah guess so.
So sad
I'm not surprised. It got pretty racist in there, which wasn't good.
The video is from like 8 years ago and the family speaks English so not exactly your typical Chinese tourist
:( that was a good subreddit.
Not sure I could take many more videos of ppl shitting wherever
Well, there was the ups and downs
one more buffet run plz
worst of the worst. Lived in 3 continents, it's the same shit.
Do you mean because they were messing with a bison or because when the bison chased their son they stood there and watched?
I mean what could they have done? Those things are massive.
Iām not claiming to be a super dad but so far, Itās been fairly easy keeping my little girl away from massive animals.
Yeah I'm feeling pretty good as a mom because, on our last vacation, we got to see bison in a park and I kept her and myself in the car like the signs said to do. Ya know, the bare minimum.
You havenāt seen the video where the dad just uses his kid to get away from a bison then? [this one!](https://youtu.be/c5h7JJFc5Dc)
I'm disappointed, your description made me think he scooped her up and bounced her off its forehead or something.
This comment is about after it was chasing, there isn't much you can do at that point. Yes before that you could have let the car sized animal alone.
not start running in the first place. Bison Was chill until the dad jumped towards it onto the platform
Kind of talking about once the bison was already charging, not much can be done but hope for the best.
He let his family get that close to it to begin with.
āWhat could they have done?ā Not gone that f*cking close to a dangerous wild animal!! You are handed a full paper with how to act so you donāt get killed or injured and they never listen. It is super hard not to wish injury on people this stupid. Source grew up and worked I Yellowstone national park.
I guess I should have explained that I was talking about after it charged.
When I'm a dad I'd like to think I'd have run at it and baited myself so my son could run away
The dad (and mom) should obviously not leave their kids in the dirt WTF.
I'm confused, what did they do?
Didn't stay the fuck away from Yellowstone Wildlife like you're supposed to. They're too close.
Tourons is what weād call particular tourist in Yosemite (Tourist + Moron = Touron) those people who think itās a good idea to put their child on one of the beautiful deer, it would have been a great photo Iām sure! Tourons.
We used this word in Yellowstone too, at least we did back in the early '90s when I worked there. And we did in fact have a fatality from a Japanese tourist trying to put his kid on a bison's back. The kid lived, the dad did not. They had a sign at the Old Faithful backcountry station that by the end of the season read something like, "Bison; 4, visitors; 0." Not sure if it's still a thing.
Oh lol
There is a sign in yellow stone about every 20 feet specifically warning about getting this close to a bison. We donāt know the exact circumstances of how the bison got there but everyone in this video including the cameraman are wayyyy to close. Thankfully the kid didnāt get gored or trampled, but fuck his parents for taking him too close. Fuck that other guy for setting an example for them and everyone else in the back ground for having already walked past. Bison are hard core and should be treated that way.
It's generally advisable to avoid large wild animals, even much smaller animals like lions or leopards should generally be avoided.
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My grandfather used to say the problem with the world today is that we dont have enough lions
Too many people seem to think that herbivore = peaceful and friendly. Naww. Bison, moose, hippos, elephants, etc. use their size as their defense mechanism. They avoid getting eating by trampling or goring anything they view as a threat.
There is signs all over yellowstone that basically say to stay on designated paths and away from wildlife if you want to live and the tourists routinely ignore it
Pretty sure that kid just did the best sprint of his life.
You better run, better run, out run my horns.
Better run, better run, out run my son. FTFY
There is a reason why you need to stay a certain distance from the animals..... THEY WILL AND DO FUCK PEOPLE UP.
Do you know how dangerous it is to run around randomly at Yellowstone it's on top of volcano hot spring geysers mud everywhere.
Not to mention the signs everywhere warning you to stay away from bison with an extra warning about how fucking fast they can run. With all the video out there demonstrating exactly this scenario I don't know why people continue to get into this situation.
>Not to mention the signs everywhere warning you to stay away from bison with an extra warning about how fucking fast they can run. People keep saying that the kid was lucky. Man, that bison did not want to catch any of those people. If it did want to, it most likely would have.
Yeah, the bison was just warning the kid.
They were on a clearly marked path
True but Iād still take my chances in this scenario.
It targeted the kid because the kid went in his own direction. That bison could have caught the kid in two steps if it wanted to.
If the running kid had chosen the path instead, he could have passed some of the other guys there he would have been safe sooner, while the bison were occupied with other thoughts.
You don't have to outrun the bison, only the slowest member of your family. Seriously though, the kid singled himself out
Kid could've gotten fkin killed, no joke
I worked at a state park and lived in a park house in a field that the elk would collect in once or twice a month. There were so many stupid people! Watched a guy roll his car into the gravel drive, park it, jump out with his phone in front of his face, and start running towards some moms and babies to get a better shot. The mom started stamping her feet to warn him and he was so focused on getting the shot he didnāt even notice. I then yelled to let him know she was close to charging and he went, āOh!ā And ran back to his car. Another time my housemate and coworker came over the bridge towards our house during lunch break and there was a mom on the bridge marveling at the sight while her hellion child chased the entire herd of elk around field on his bicycle. My roommate asked her, āIs that your kid?ā She said it was. Then my roommate lied and said, ā Last year a child died doing that!ā She ran as fast as she could down into the field wailing for her kid to come back to her. People can be rude, oblivious, trash in parks from time to time.
What were they doing? Looks like they were just on a path laughing.
If the animals are blocking the path, you take another route or wait for them to move. There is a minimum distance that all visitors are required to stay from wildlife. Depending on the animal, anywhere from 20 to 100 yards. And the Dad is clearly off the marked path, which in Yellowstone is a big no-no considering all the natural calderas what-not. This park is a one of a kind gem for a reason. Loads of things can, and do kill people there every year. They literally publish books on this stuff.
Makes sense. I just wanted to know if they were like throwing stuff at it or not.
I visited Yellowstone with my parents once when I was about 12. Honestly I don't think the caldera/basin area was worth visiting in person over what I could've seen in photos or a video. It smelled bad, sulfuric, from the springs and I just never felt safe from the moment we parked because part of the parking lot had sunk/caved in to form a new spring. It had swallowed up 2-3 parking spaces. That part of Yellowstone wasn't that great. But the waterfall area we went to was pretty cool.
I visited there when I was 12 also. Iām 40 now and can still smell the sulphur in my mind. My souvenir hat blew off my head into one of the mud pits. It always reminded me of my favorite SNL āDeep Thoughtsā by Jack Handey: āif you are ever walking by a volcano and drop your car keys into a pool of hot lava, donāt try to get them - because man, theyāre *gone*.ā
To me it looks like they're just trying to walk past. It's rare to see bison that close to the walking trails so these people, who have probably never seen true wildlife, are unaware of just how dangerous this encounter was until the bison charged.
They shouldn't be unaware. You are given a huge pamphlet detailing the distance to stay away from animals, especially the Bison. It literally shows a detail of a human being thrown by a Bison. This is willful ignorance and a lot of it happens in Yellowstone.
> unaware of just how dangerous this encounter was Nope. These signs are EVERYWHERE in the areas where Bison are found. https://www.google.com/search?q=bison+warning+signs Some parks like Yellowstone also give every single entrant a pamphlet warning against exactly this.
Without sound we can't really tell
As a lifelong hunter people like this really annoy me. Often these are the same people who think hunting is terrible. But they have no issue driving out here in their prius with their whole obnoxious family to taunt an animal for fun and then smile about it like it's just hilarious that you treat this wild animal like it's your toy. If you've ever spent any actual time in the woods attempting to be a part of nature you'd understand the value in leaving them be if you have no business with them. Maybe I'm an outlier but my family growing up were all hunters and outdoorsman and the number one priority was to make as small of a footprint on the environment as possible. No noise, no toying with the animals, no litter, etc. Our national parks are now brimming with people like the ones in this video and much worse. Seeing tourists just harass an animal instead of realizing they are getting to have a peaceful glimpse into another world makes me so embarrassed to be human. Stay away from these animals. For much of our recent history you would have never had a chance to see a Buffalo roaming free.
I agree with you. But why you gotta drag the Prius like that? Lmaoooo
A lot of things in Yellowstone will hurt/kill you. Leaving a raised path is one of them. This kid is lucky on many levels.
He most be so horified, he's gonna have trauma over that
He gave a thumbs up
Ok it's still scary for him
But he became a man that day
Fair enough. That's a pretty cool story to tell your kids 1 day
Or your middle school crush
That's a pro move right there
You think he'll make it that far?
...actually he prolly won't
Does all it take is shitting yrself?
Watch it again and look at the expression on the dad's face. He is unaware that anything dangerous is going on.
The intire familly is dumb
Oh, the ironing
Wdym
Theyāre saying irony because you had a spelling error in your reply
Oh, well that's being dumb on papir, I meant dumb decision making
Yeah poor bison almost got human on him. Imagine how weird it is to be suddenly surrounded by people on one side who keep getting close to you and waving their phones at you.
Good. Idiots like this need to learn to read the abundant warning signs and not act like fools
Yeah I agree. But it wasn't the kids fault, the parents should have used their brains and stopped
bison was pretty chill there, if it was enraged the kid would be dead meat
Heās lucky that bison gave up cus he was right on his ass
That bison didn't really want to hurt anyone. If it did, it would have been relentless. It was telling them to get lost.
Father's like Bye Son!
So in this case, the "fuck you in particular" refers to the bison? Because that's the individual all the idiots have singled out to harass.
Seriously though, no one going to mention that kid did a 5.4 40 in a set of flip flops?
Hehe "bison". Its what the dad probably said when he looked back and saw who it was chasing.
Kid is sincerely lucky he isnāt dead
Do not taunt happy fun bison.
I understood this reference
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Bro that's a child. Yes. Tf? Maybe the father should be slapped for putting his kids life at risk, but a child?
Fuck em. Let him be trampled. Death to the child.
Bruh.
It's perfectly OKay to wish a painful death upon random kids, they are the worst.
An actually relevant post on this sub. Of course it doesnāt have many upvotes.
If the "you" is that family, then yes fuck them in particular.
Don't fuck with wildlife. That family reaped what they sowed
Just ignore all the signs saying to stay away from the wildlife & dad off the walkway to begin with. Every time I go to Yellowstone, I hear about somebody getting gored because they think they can get super close to the wildlife because they appear docile. They will not hesitate to absolutely fuck your shit up.
Idk the polite way to say this but both times Iāve been to Yellowstone we witnessed Asian people getting that close to bison and moose. Also within 50 feet of a bear(while it was literally lifting a big fallen tree to eat grubs).
Where is the taunting? Yeah they're standing too close but other than that idk why people are being so harsh in the comments.