Family got out of car at Safari park

[MineralMan]

19. Some folks are just incredibly stupid...

Morons abound.

I was at Yosemite one winter. There's a meadow at the south end of the park, right by the road, near the turnoff to the Badger Pass ski area, where many many deer gather. People feed them things like apples, so they're unafraid of humans. Signs say not to do that, but nobody pays any attention to it. I was there with my wife, watching the deer one time from inside our car, when a family drove up. They all got out of their car and started feeding the deer. Pretty soon, they were surrounded by deer. To my horror, the man, probably the father, picked up a toddler and tried to sit it on a big buck's back. The buck wasn't having any of that, as you'd expect, and reared up. The kid ended up on the ground, and dad got hooked by an antler. At that point, I got out of my car and, when the deer were a little ways from the family, ran toward the deer, shouting and clapping my hands loudly. They scattered instantly.

When I reached the family, I found that none of them were hurt much, although dad had a small wound on his bicep that was bleeding. I calmly said to the family, "Maybe it would be better if you got back in your car." They did. After that, I had some somewhat stronger words for the father.