Bison gores woman in Yellowstone National
Park, tosses her ten feet in the air
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
6/1/2022 9:08:01 AM
Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. — A bison gored a 25-year-old woman in Yellowstone National Park. The bison was walking near a boardwalk at Black Sand Basin, just north of Old Faithful, when the woman approached it on Monday, according to a park statement. She got within 10 feet before the animal gored her and tossed her 10 feet in the air. The woman, from Grove City, Ohio, sustained a puncture wound and other injuries. Park emergency medical providers responded and transported her via ambulance to a hospital in Idaho. Park officials say it's the first reported bison goring this year.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rama41 6/1/2022 9:10:25 AM (No. 1172249)
Ten feet in the air? Does anyone know the record?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/1/2022 9:13:01 AM (No. 1172252)
I wouldn't get within 10' of someone's old cow or other large animal, let alone a bison.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
thomthomp 6/1/2022 9:18:07 AM (No. 1172255)
"Park regulations require visitors to remain more than 25 yards away from bison."
That's 75 feet, not 10.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Pnstrpilot 6/1/2022 9:19:23 AM (No. 1172257)
Bless the beast and the children.....remember that old'e but goodie (1970's)...perhaps she was just reenacting Billy Mummy's character and assumed the Bison would understand...
There is a reason behind the warnings reference "wild" animals at State/Federal parks...ignore at your own risk....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
red1066 6/1/2022 9:21:34 AM (No. 1172260)
These people must think it's like Disney World. Nothing is real. These are wild animals, and a bison can weigh about two tons. There are probably a dozen videos one can watch that show these stupid people being tossed into trees by bison while they try and get a photo.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
0658 6/1/2022 9:22:11 AM (No. 1172263)
Reminds me of the old saying "Play with the Bull (Bison in this case) and you get the horns"'.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/1/2022 9:22:20 AM (No. 1172264)
Stupidity is a terminal disease. It’s amazing she didn’t die right there.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/1/2022 9:36:31 AM (No. 1172299)
If there is a video, it will be out for us to see and admire. What part of stupid is it to approach a bison in this manner. Is it the "stu" or the "pid"? I would refer to her as a "touron" - a tourist and moron.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/1/2022 9:37:27 AM (No. 1172301)
Do not pet the fluffy cows.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/1/2022 9:56:43 AM (No. 1172328)
Oh well.
People who have never been around large domesticated animals (much less wild ones), that is animals humans have some sort of regular contact with and actively husband, have no clue what a really big hunk of frightened muscle, hooves, teeth, and horns can do to an itty bitty human body. I was raised with horses and married into a cattle family. You never let your guard down, ever.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 6/1/2022 9:59:14 AM (No. 1172333)
Dont want to be around the Buff when they are playing “Gore and Toss” with people!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Californian 6/1/2022 10:02:31 AM (No. 1172337)
Follow up headline, "Victim of vicious attack gets $5m settlement from Yellowstone park".
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 6/1/2022 10:11:29 AM (No. 1172348)
Bison - 1, tourist - 0.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hershey 6/1/2022 10:14:56 AM (No. 1172351)
You never want to mess with Mother Nature, or her animals....odds are the tourist wanted a selfie...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
PChristopher 6/1/2022 10:16:26 AM (No. 1172353)
Well, if somebody came into my home acting like they owned the place, darned if I wouldn't gore them, too!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ruhn 6/1/2022 10:16:33 AM (No. 1172354)
FTA: “Park officials say it's the first reported bison goring this year.”
So…Yellowstone National Park tracks “bison gorings” annually?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
ramona 6/1/2022 10:17:54 AM (No. 1172359)
The national parks summer staff refer to these people as "tourons." A family member spent a couple summers working at a lodge in Glacier and he told us about the visitor who asked how much the mountains weigh. There seems to be no end to idiots who don't read the signs or seemingly take even a moment to learn about the magnificent animals and nature features they have traveled there to see.
Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/1/2022 10:22:52 AM (No. 1172364)
But, most importantly, did she get the picture? She must have gotten a shot as she was coming down!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
granny5 6/1/2022 10:23:14 AM (No. 1172365)
There are signs all over the park, plus there's a warning in the pamphlet you get when you enter the park showing someone being thrown by a bison. People are just stupid. I've seen Japanese tourists walk right up to a bison to get a better picture. It's nuts!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
southernboy 6/1/2022 10:26:18 AM (No. 1172371)
I witnessed a woman at Yellowstone running through a field in waist-high grass toward a bear with a movie camera to her face. She got within 25 yards before she got her "money-shot."
It was only due to the bears' good nature she wasn't mauled.
Idiot!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Debrawr 6/1/2022 10:54:18 AM (No. 1172404)
While cresting a hill on Catalina Island, I accidentally encountered two Bison about 20 feet away. I froze, and was lucky they slowly turned and walked away. I can't imagine how stupid someone has to be to deliberately approach one of these animals.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 6/1/2022 11:00:09 AM (No. 1172412)
I've walked that boardwalk at Black Sand Basin many times over the last 50 years, and there are often bison there this time of year because it is warm from the steam, and the air is still cold. Fewer there in July and August, but they come back in September and winter over around the hot springs and geysers.
And if there are bison there, you stay well back, if you have any brains. If you don't have any brains you walk up to the bison, thinking that Yellowstone is a petting zoo, even though there are signs everywhere telling you to stay well back. On two occasions, I have watched fools getting closer and closer to bison, and left the area, not wanting to have to assist some wounded idiot.
Life is an ongoing intelligence test. She got an "F" for the day. Lucky to not be dead.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
cold porridge 6/1/2022 11:26:23 AM (No. 1172443)
She sounds like a democrat to me.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/1/2022 11:34:56 AM (No. 1172461)
Yep, I'll bet she thought the Bison was docile...come here boy, I'll Pet you!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
volksford 6/1/2022 11:42:25 AM (No. 1172476)
I have always had a rule concerning large animals .... I don't mess with them , they don't mess with me.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
NYBruin 6/1/2022 11:51:03 AM (No. 1172483)
Number 19: "Gora, gora, gora!!"
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
farmwife 6/1/2022 11:55:03 AM (No. 1172487)
I read a few minutes ago that the woman has died.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Ragman73 6/1/2022 11:59:07 AM (No. 1172489)
Is there no limit to the stupidity of people in this country? Remember Siegfried and Roy in Las Vegas? Even though these gentlemen were professionals, things "went sideways" one day. Why take any chances with a wild animal?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/1/2022 12:16:13 PM (No. 1172502)
Confirmed, #27. Several news sources just reported the woman has died.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
SALady 6/1/2022 12:32:31 PM (No. 1172522)
Anyone getting within 10 feet of a wild bison is clearly auditioning for a "Darwin Award"!!!!!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
zoidberg 6/1/2022 12:51:46 PM (No. 1172538)
Let's Go Bison!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
formerNYer 6/1/2022 1:06:08 PM (No. 1172549)
I was in Yellowstone years ago and I saw people actually running towards a bison and then truneing their back so someone could take a picture - a week later after getting home I heard some gored by a bison, it didn't surprise me. It's called thinning the heard.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
DVC 6/1/2022 7:53:00 PM (No. 1172930)
One report this afternoon said, "Despite multiple reports that the woman has died, she is alive in the hospital."
Not sure which is correct, but I must say, I do not remember death from a bison attack in Yellowstone, at least off of the top of my head. Lots of tossing, a few goring, some stomping, but their horns are pretty short and so a puncture from a horn isn't going to be more than probably 2-6" deep....certainly 6" is enough to be very bad, perhaps fatal, no doubt, but not like being gored by a Spanish fighting bull which can easily go all the way through and have six inches sticking out the back.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/2/2022 1:19:01 AM (No. 1173199)
New Sport, Pet Bison, Learn to Fly!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
mifla 6/2/2022 6:28:41 AM (No. 1173297)
Wild animals are called wild for a reason.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Birddog 6/2/2022 8:17:42 PM (No. 1174185)
At joint Press conference Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer joined together to announce that they will soon be sending New regulations to the Presidents desk...
"There is no reason for Americans to have to live with this type of violence, No Other Country in the World has these kinds of events, there is no reason other than Racist Republicans pandering to their special interest Bison Lobby that Fully weaponized Assault Cows continue to inflict unconscionable damage upon innocent women...Mark our Warning, they will be come for children, LBGQRSTXYZ people and BIPOC transgenders NEXT!"
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