Yellowstone tries humor to warn against dangerous critters

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Yellowstone National Park asks tourists to maintain a safe distance from other tourists and – as always – potentially dangerous animals.

On Friday the park unveiled a clever graphic intended to drive home its message. The chart shows a tourist standing and waving next to other tourists in a “wrong” manner, and six feet away in a “right” manner. It then shows the same figure standing next to a bear (wrong) and 100 yards from a bear (right), and next to a moose (wrong) and 25 yards from a moose (right).

The final portion of the graphic, however, is the punch line. It shows the waving figure standing next to a bison in one frame (wrong) and running from three charging bison in the next frame, beneath the heading,“Good luck,” and above the sub-heading: “Shouldn’t have been waving….”



This comes in the aftermath of a late-June incident involving a 72-year-old woman who was gored after violating park guidelines and repeatedly approaching within 10 feet of a bison. In May a woman was rammed by a bison after she violated the park’s 25-yard distance regulation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/yellowstone-tries-humor-to-warn-against-dangerous-critters/ar-BB16YnlQ?li=BBnb7Kz

[Wounded Bear]

1. Too many people don't understand the concept of "wild animal"...

[Sherman A1]

2. +1

[FirstLight]

5. seriously, I worked for the Park Service here in Tahoe

and people woould ask stupid questions like "can't you train your aminals better?" Like it was fucking Disneyland!

[Harker]

8. But... but... it's a park!

Wild animals should know their place.

[3Hotdogs]

19. Yeah, selfish 4legged fukers.

I got some in my yard.... Lillies, about 40 of them last night. This morning, all but 3. Gone. 4 Neighborhood deer.

Then there's the blueberries. Fukin Mockingbirds. 3 of 'em "own" our yard.

[Harker]

21. Blueberries just about ready for picking here.

I have.the crows cowed. They act innocent, but I know what they're really up to.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. They feel so entitled that they think wildlife will obey. . . . nt

[soothsayer]

3. Slightly cringeworthy if it's in response to the goring

But I totally love it!

[PTWB]

6. Ehh.

People need to give wild creatures appropriate space. It is unfortunate that a woman who intentionally chose to violate the safety conventions was gored, but you know what they say about playing stupid games.

[Hekate]

4. Perfect! People need graphics -- very graphic ones!

[Lucky Luciano]

7. This reporter had the right idea with bison! His eyes tell us a lot! LOL

[CaptYossarian]

9. The buffalo picture makes me think of the movie "Top Secret".

[Auggie]

11. Uh, the safest distance between me and a bear is about 10,000 miles

[soldierant]

24. Problem is, if you get 10,000 miles away from THIS bear

that puts you well within 10,000 miles of THAT bear. Unless you're in the middle of the ocean, 10,000 miles from the nearest land.

[Auggie]

32. I'm okay with that

[eppur_se_muova]

33. Look out for sharks -- the "bears of the sea". nt

[Delmette2.0]

12. About 30 years ago I took my boys to Yellowstone.

We stopped because there were bison not close but in a meadow. I made the boys stay close to the car and we just watched. Then some guy started walking out toward a bison and calling out Moo, Moo. Like it was a fucking cow. I grew up in rural Montana and I know even cows don't respond to humans calling out Moo. I told my sons to get in the car, we were leaving. They were not happy, but I didn't want to see the man being gored and the bison looking for more targets.

Every year someone is gored or falls into a hot spring.i'm really not all that surprised that people will ignore warnings and not protect them selves from nature or COVID19.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Sounds like a Darwin candidate

[Delmette2.0]

16. I tracked the news for a few days.

There was nothing about any incident with a bison.

[plimsoll]

15. Nothing says get closer than

1500 lbs of horned muscle.

[Delmette2.0]

17. Yeah, and invading the animals territory.

And the 1,500 pounds of pissed off bison can run faster than you.

[Jimbo S]

26. Going on a tangent

Saturday night watching old home movies from 1975 that my late father-in-law filmed in Michigan's upper peninsula. From the car he caught a couple of bears on film...along with a couple humans getting a closer look.

[Delmette2.0]

31. I almost hate to admit what I realized from my family home movies.

It was 1957, I was 5 years old and the youngest of 5 children. We were in Glacier Park and Dad got out of the car with the movie camera. In the movie was our car, closer to Dad were two bears that he was filming! Yikes! He had no where to go if a bear decided to charge him. Granted he was a strong tough young man 32 years old and made it through 4 years of WWII. My heart still pounds at the risk he took.

[backscatter712]

14. Reminds me of an Australian public safety PSA campaign (also adopted by Denver's RTD)

[Delmette2.0]

20. That is great, perfect!

[SiliconValley_Dem]

18. I believe bison are the park's number 1 killer

ahead of bears, thermal features, etc

[backscatter712]

22. Yep. Male buffalo, moose, elk, and so on are called "bulls" for a reason.

Just like a "domesticated" cow bull, they're full of testosterone, and their temper's on a hair trigger.

Always a bad idea to be stupid around a roid-raging animal that's bigger than you are and has natural weapons like hooves, horns, or antlers.

Though you reminded me of the tourons at Yellowstone that ignore the big danger signs and wander off the boardwalk around the geysers - end up being turned into soup...

[Historic NY]

23. A few days ago the tourists with the bear selfies video

people are stupid in one hard swipe a bear can open a person up like a can opener.

[SergeStorms]

25. Thanks, I needed a laugh today.

You know people will continue to harass wildlife though, you know.....because......"freedumb".

[hunter]

27. Bison thrived in a world of wolves, giant bears, and saber tooth cats.

Don't mess with them.



wikipedia

[2naSalit]

29. I've seen them stare down bears.

[Demovictory9]

30. I think people want to touch that lush looking pelt

[eppur_se_muova]

34. Native Americans knew that the leather from that hump made a tough shield that would stop arrows.

So both offensively and defensively, bison >> human.

[2naSalit]

28. ABout time!

I think they should have a standard note on all signs that say: Pass at your own risk.

I have no argument against most of the comments made above. I worked there over several years and have seen some of the stupidest shit. I have also, while in uniform, been charged and caught in a stampede on different events... visitors are not quite so aware of their surroundings in the ways they should be and they are relying on those nonskills learned on social media to guide them.

[Beringia]

35. My sister let her daughter get close to a bear

For a pic once on a road near a park. There were lots of tourists taking pics. I told her how dangerous that was. But no response. And my sister is usually so safe about her kids. I remember once too how my sister walked right up to a horse at some rural event with a lot of horses like she was so cool and the horse got spooked and reacted aggressively. My sister got so surprised. Some people have no sense about animal nature, no animal sense