71-year-old woman is second visitor to
be attacked by a bison in Yellowstone
National Park this week
CBS News,
by
EMILY MAE CZACHOR
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
6/30/2022 8:14:09 PM
A visitor was gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday. It was the second such attack in the park in three days. The tourist, a 71-year-old woman from West Chester, Pennsylvania, reportedly approached the animal by accident while she and her daughter returned to their car after hiking near the park's central lake, according to the National Park Service. The bull, or male, bison then charged. (Snip) On Monday, startling video footage captured a bison charging at, and then goring, a Yellowstone visitor. That attack happened as a 34-year-old man from Colorado Springs, Colorado, and his family
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/30/2022 8:32:24 PM (No. 1202452)
On a fishing trip to Yellowstone some many years ago we got caught in a traffic backup. Seems there were several bison near the road and people had stopped and got out of their car to take pictures close up. I took a couple out the window of the rental car and drove on to the Lamar River to fish. If you want to see why half the people in this country voted for Brandon then look to people like this. Clueless morons.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Merlin251 6/30/2022 8:34:01 PM (No. 1202456)
Rule number 1: Give Buffaloes a very wide berth.
Rule number 2: See rule number 1!!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
southernboy 6/30/2022 9:35:17 PM (No. 1202495)
At Yellowstone, a few years back, I sat in my vehicle behind a SUV from which a man and woman had thrown open the doors, left their children unsupervised and ran within 50 feet of a bear standing in a field. She holding a camera with a foot-long lens to her face and her husband running a movie camera.
Fortunately for the children, apparently the bear had just eaten and was neither hungry nor angry.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jalo1951 6/30/2022 9:44:07 PM (No. 1202506)
Big signs telling idiots, I mean visitors, to stay in their cars far, far away from WILD animals. You are on their turf and they will defend that turf and themselves.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/30/2022 10:19:38 PM (No. 1202520)
How does one accidentally approach a bison? It's like walking half-way up your sidewalk and not seeing your house.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 6/30/2022 10:35:13 PM (No. 1202537)
Very liberal bastion West Chester Pa. Biteme probably got almost all the white suburban college age women vote in West Chester.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Axeman 6/30/2022 11:32:02 PM (No. 1202580)
I've been through Yellowstone a few times. Hint: go as soon as you can after the snow melts, before school gets out.
You can always tell there is a wild animal somewhere by the traffic jam.
Bison are really BIG animals! An adolescent bison is bigger than a bull cattle. They get much bigger. That hump on their back is from the muscles it takes to toss that enormous head around!
A full grown male grisly bear may be able to down an average bison, no way a big one.
Elk can easily stomp a human to death quickly.
Black bears are not big, cute, Labradors.
The geyser pools will boil skin off instantly. People who fall in are dissolved. They sometimes find metal parts. Sometimes not. Who is going looking?
But it a fabulous place to go and all Americans should visit it at least once in their lives.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
smokincol 7/1/2022 12:03:33 AM (No. 1202599)
these people will not listen to the Park Rangers when they tell them to stay away from these animals, they'd only have to tell me once
I am not a strong advocate for having humans anywhere near Yellowstone and I really feel the park should be closed, permanently, and land given back to the Indians and the wild animals, the government should never have paved the roads and made it easier for humans to enter the reservation, especially the stupid people who think they can outrun a Bison or a Bear
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Omen55 7/1/2022 12:47:46 AM (No. 1202629)
Yellowstone is not a petting zoo!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 7/1/2022 12:53:25 AM (No. 1202634)
On several occasions, I have walked briskly away from a moron who was approaching a buffalo bull like it was a statue. I didn't want to get involved in either trying to rescue or provide first aid for the idiots, so I just walked away.
Morons abound.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Safari Man 7/1/2022 1:12:52 AM (No. 1202658)
Just 198 more times and we can celebrate that bison-tennial.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
pensom2 7/1/2022 1:33:09 AM (No. 1202664)
I agree with all the posters above. HOWEVER, it appears that at least two of these encounters took place when the victims were walking on a boardwalk near Old Faithful. One might think a boardwalk over water would be a protected space. I think they need to keep the bison away from this particular tourist attraction. Pretty tough to run away on a curvy boardwalk over hot geyser water.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 7/1/2022 5:23:14 AM (No. 1202726)
Lived in Montana for 33 yrs and we always looked forward to The Dumb Tourist Funnies. The signs at Yellowstone are big enough so it's pure stupidity. People fail to realize this isn't some petting zoo. Billy Buffalo is not your friend.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
5 handicap 7/1/2022 5:30:29 AM (No. 1202728)
Darwin doing his thing... These imbeciles, who were gored, have only their own STUPIDITY to blame!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 7/1/2022 7:39:53 AM (No. 1202794)
The encounter didn't look accidental to me.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
PageTurner 7/1/2022 7:54:34 AM (No. 1202806)
Sounds like they need some culling.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/1/2022 8:14:49 AM (No. 1202825)
I repeat, do not pet the fluffy cows.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Stencil 7/1/2022 9:04:32 AM (No. 1202878)
Put them in cages.
The people, that is.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/1/2022 11:46:04 AM (No. 1203072)
Hey morons, Bison's are NOT PETS, they are Wild Animals and thereby Unpredictable. Pet at your own risk...See Ya! Darwin Awards, are you watching?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 7/1/2022 11:50:40 AM (No. 1203078)
Dumb@ss.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
cold porridge 7/1/2022 12:51:08 PM (No. 1203172)
"The bull, or male, bison then charged"..... How do they know what a "male" bison is, and how do they know the bison doesn't identify as a female bison?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 7/1/2022 12:52:16 PM (No. 1203176)
Re 12....your theory sounds reasonable. But watch the video. In one the bison is clearly agitated and rushing around, clearly threatening, and yet the two adults holding the hands of a small child just STAND THERE and do absolutely nothing for at least 5-8 seconds. They could have EASILY scooped up the child and hurried away and been 25-50 feet farther away and moving more before the bison decided to attack.
And he likely would NOT have attacked if they had immediately MOVED away.
This is not rocket science, and it is NOT a zoo, petting or otherwise. There are no bars, you are expected to be smart enough to stay at some distance from the WILD animals. Wild - they OWN the place, YOU are the visitor, and YOU need to be careful. But that requires brains, which seems to be in extremely short supply for many people.
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How many times is this going to happen? If you see a 2,000 pound shaggy animal don't step in front of him.