authorities are looking for this tourist who approached Yellowstone grizzly bear for a photo

[Demovictory9]

Authorities are hunting for a clueless tourist who came within feet of a massive grizzly bear just to snag a souvenir photo in Yellowstone National Park.

The intense viral footage — shot earlier this month by another tourist in a parking lot at Roaring Mountain inside the Wyoming park — shows an unidentified woman holding her phone as she stands close to the female grizzly.

The grizzly charges at the woman, appearing ready to pounce, before turning away. Nearby witnesses were left breathless after the frightening encounter, video shows.

“Oh my God, oh my God,” one startled woman said. “Holy f-ck!”

“I got that on video!” another shocked witness said.

National Park Service rangers want to identify the woman as part of an investigation into the May 10 incident for disregarding rules to stay at least 100 yards away from bears, Yellowstone Park officials said this week.

https://nypost.com/2021/05/28/tourist-sought-for-approaching-bear-with-phone-at-yellowstone/

[Skittles]

1. and we wonder how people were dumb enough to vote for Trump

[2naSalit]

5. I had no doubts about that part...

And after working in that park in uniform, I can tell you, this happens at lest a hundred times a day with one animal pr thermal feature or another every day, even if they know a ranger is right there.

[Skittles]

10. I honestly think these people should be studied

it's just fucking SAD

[Whiskeytide]

2. Have they looked inside the bear? n/t

[Budi]

4. Reply of the day. Right here.

[Demovictory9]

7. DUzy!

[Hoyt]

3. Bet she . . . . As stupid and dangerous as that is, I doubt they'd get a conviction.

Most folks would stay away, but she’d get off claiming she did not know about the law. She is on a maintained observation area. Might get fined, though.

But, I guess Park needs to go after her for appearances.

[2naSalit]

6. The park needs to...

go after as many offenders as possible and fine their asses and administer other consequences. The lack of respect for the wildlife is astonishing and needs to be addressed. The safety precautions for the park are issued at the entrance and there are many opportunities to learn about these things if they ere interested in them.

[Hoyt]

8. They need to remove the rock observation areas.

[2naSalit]

9. Those are supposed to keep the tourists...

off the certain features. You can never tell when a bear is going to show up, or a bison for that matter. People are stupid and if you don't give them places to pull over and look, they'll get out of their vehicle in the middle of the road with the doors open to go look at a coyote, meanwhile a thousand other people are trapped and half of them will get out to look too. In. the. middle. of. the. road.

Seriously, I had to move away to get away from asshole tourist invasion that never quits anymore. Now I fear I may have to leave the region.

[Hoyt]

11. If they don't want people getting close, don't make it easy for them to get close.

I get people ought to be smarter. But as the past 4 years have proven, they aren’t.

Doesn’t matter to me, I’m not traveling through a crowded park.

[2naSalit]

13. I haven't been back...

Since I stopped working for gov't agencies, but it's getting pretty bad outside the park as well. I guess I didn't get far enough away. I used to love that place, studied for years to be able to work and live there and I was run off by maga types.

[Blue Owl]

12. How long until MTG compares the National Park Officials to Holocaust oppressors?

[2naSalit]

14. Not long, I'm sure.

[smirkymonkey]

16. 3..2..1...

[keithbvadu2]

15. Smells like pepper