MicroWaveWoman gored by Bison at Yellowstone
Action Swear this happens every year. Someone either gets gored by a bison or tries to go swimming in a geothermal pool and gets boiled alive and dissolved.
pizza_rollsI feel like this has happened several times in the last year
【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】Says right in the article the last time a person got too close to a bison and was seriously injured was June 2022.
Immersive_MatthewI heard a park ranger say once “There is an overlap between the smartest animals and the dumbest people.”
Tom Scott was discussing this in his latest video on Bear Proof garbage containers. they’re designed to keep bears out, but some clueless people can’t open them either.
Clueless people or well-disguised bears?
It’s the great circle. The smartest bears get to eat the garbage and the dumber bears get to eat the dumb people who can’t figure out how to throw their garbage away and keep it in their tent instead.
TheCrispyDudWell considering I don't live in bear country I'm sure I'd struggle the first time encountering one of those cans.
They’re literally just dumpsters with a little airlock chamber on top so that trash stink can’t escape and attract animals. If you’ve mailed a package at the post office and had to use one of those weird chutes, you can figure out a bear can.
Weird chute, like the vacuum tubes you see at banks and retail stores? If so that's kind of cool, y'know, for trash that is.
Tom Scott said that in his video yesterday too. Weird how I’ve seen this same phrase twice in less than a day.
lechatronPossible Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. The real fun one is if this is your first time hearing of the phenomenon and you see it again in the next couple days.
The name itself is self redundant.
cedarmesaIs saying self redundant…redundant?
Yeah the guy obviously stole the quote from the Tom Scott video
I also mentioned in that thread idiots getting fucked by buffalo.
So yeah.
CubesThis does happen fairly often at Yellowstone, so it’s not widely reported when it does. It actually happened very close to me when I was there last year because a bison was laying very near a popular walkway near old faithful, but people still didn’t stop walking by it 🙃
FredselfishBeen to Yellowstone many times. People don’t understand that the Bison look friendly almost looks as if you could pet them.
But they are aggressive and will kill you stay the fuck away.
Yet this does happen every year.
wazoobonkerbrainSomeone either gets gored by a bison or tries to go swimming in a geothermal pool and gets boiled alive and then dissolved.
Even worse, sometimes both of those things happen at the same time. This one lady, she went to pet the cute bison and it gored her and then she fell into the hot spring and disintegrated. At least I suppose that happened.
KSP AtlasThe bison have learned how to dispose of evidence
mr_robotI visited Yellowstone last year. The National Parks Service has an excellent walkway system which allows visitors to get a close-up view of the hot springs. All along the walkways are signs that say something along the lines of “Step off this walkway and you will be boiled alive.”
The sheer number of people visiting these areas on an average day and the quality of workmanship put into the park walkways gives people a false sense of security. A few times I had to remind myself that where you are standing could kill you. Imagine being in a crowd of people seeing and experiencing something beautiful. Nobody there is unhappy, everyone is strolling taking pictures and enjoying the hot springs. But in reality, it is a bunch of people standing on heat resistant walkways above a boiling lakes of death.
You see the signs, but I can completely understand how idiots and children would ignore them and get themselves killed. It’s just not something you think about in the moment.
Also, people taking photos of bison are incredibly cavalier about distance and safety. It makes sense that attacks and deaths are common enough not to make headlines.