Tourist taking picture tumbles into Yellowstone park canyon.

[elleng]

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Rangers in Yellowstone National Park have rescued a New York tourist who stumbled backward into a canyon while trying to take a picture.

A statement released Monday says the 71-year-old man tumbled about 25 feet on May 10 before he stopped his fall by bracing his body and feet against a small crevice in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.

Two park rangers threw the man a rope that they secured to a tree and a sign. A park rescue team then pulled the man back to the rim using ropes and pulleys.

Officials say the man was extremely lucky that he stopped in the crevice because he was at the top of a 200-foot drop.

The man, whose name has not been released, was treated for a possible hip injury.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4d1c51b829ac493e8bf29f4375bed5e1/tourist-taking-picture-tumbles-yellowstone-park-canyon

DEAR friends, PLEASE BE CAREFUL!

[Hoppy]

1. About 30 years ago, the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger posted an article

about a guy bitten by an Eastern Timber Rattlesnake in the Delaware Watergap National Recreation Area.

Our hero encountered the snake sunning on a rock. He wanted a photo but the snake was facing north. So he reached down to "adjust" the snake and was bitten.

He was taken to hospital and then fined $2,000 for tampering with an endangered species.

[elleng]

2. OUCH!

[liberal N proud]

3. Was this idiot with the moron who was gored earlier this week?

http://news.sky.com/story/1485739/teenage-tourist-gored-by-bison-at-yellowstone




Yellowstone is not an amusement park!

[Stevenmarc]

4. Being a NY'er I can empathize with the bison.

Nt