Stupid Tourist Tricks
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It's off to a fast start already this year! A list of incidents involving people trying to obtain the coveted Darwin Award. I will keep you up to date of all the stupid tourist tricks. This yesterday: We thought it was cold! (this is a first) LMAO http://www.ktvq.com/story/31975424/y...ed-it-was-cold https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...Lv9bnHmZwlPe12 How this lady lived and was not gored is beyond me: Buy a Powerball ticket lady: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfk1O9_quxs This from last week: Amazing no one got taken out: http://www.krtv.com/story/31915893/v...nal-park-video Much of the time, this is what happens: Fat guy vs Bison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNvTHOrTf_Y At this rate, it should be a record year for goring incidents, Chinese tourists seem particularly clueless. So far no goring's, but it's coming. If you have any from your area, post them up. |
Where were the tourists from that picked up the bison? My friends on Facebook from Montana were having a field with it. So hilarious.
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I'd like to see them try and save a grizzly cub they think is cold.
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Then there is this idiot. Rock climbing at 3am
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Bison wizz! ROFL |
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I mean you know there is going to be numerous goring's "because bison look slow, stupid, seem tame and after all, it is a National park" AKA a big petting zoo in some people's minds. "Worst case scenario, we could outrun that big fat thing, break out the selfie stick and lets stand next to it!" What's even more amazing to me is the people that stalk a grizzly for the close up shot and get the Tim Treadwell treatment. |
Heh. Reminds of the tourists who get out of their cars to feed the Bighorn sheep here, particularly on Mt. Evans. It's a loooong way down, flatlander.
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This brings back a lot of memories. Used to give park tours through Yellowstone and I don't miss it one bit. Tourists are the worst there. We had quite a few guests that actually thought that bear spray was like bug spray that they should spray on themselves as some sort of bear repellant. I really wish I didn't have to correct them sometimes just to see them do it
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These guys are lucky that Mama Bison wasn't around or they probably wouldn't have been in any state to drive away.
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My hometown of Hays, Kansas has a city park with a bison enclosure.
The park was home to many all nighters & more than one occasion some drunk thinks he can ride one. They ended up replacing the fence to keep the drunks from snuggling up next to one during a chilly morning. |
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One of the excursions on our cruise for our honeymoon was a bus tour of Catalina island. It wasn't bad. Got to see the sights, some interesting shit. A little perplexing because the island is all about returning it to original ecology after the pigs and goat infestation and the bald eagle ddt thing but they're TOTALLY cool with buffalo even though they aren't indigenous. Anyway. There were a bunch of Chinese tourists and they totally melted down about the buffalo. They were little specs on the horizon and they were freaking out. Making the dude back up and shit. I'd never seen anything like it. So then the next year we went to Rushmore and down through the preserves there. And there were Chinese tourists blocking mother****ing traffic to take pictures of ... You guessed it. ****ing buffalo. Wife and I were epic pissed. So now it's a running joke between us that any time there is stupid shit happening we tell each other there must be buffalo around LOL. Hell of it is there is a feedlot here that, at least at the time had 15,000 or so buffalo being fed out. Plus there is a herd on grass of a hundred or so. There is no way I could give less of a shit about buffalo. Unless of course I get to see one light one of these ****ers up. |
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I wonder if that would keep the bears away.
Nahhh, it's more like sauce on a hot wing to humans. |
Love videos like this.
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Well now this just plain sucks.
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Anyway, we are on the bus which is overcrowded with mainly Asian tourists. The bus stops suddenly because there is a deer along the roadway. I thought the bus was going to tip over the way they all rushed over to that side of the bus to see the deer. We sat there for quite awhile while they snapped pictures and cooed over this scraggly mule deer. :shake: Then, when we were leaving the Grand Canyon NP, traffic suddenly comes to a halt because there are some elk along the roadway and this guy just stops his car in the middle of the road to see them. He then jumps out of the car with what I assume is his 7-8 year old daughter so they can try to pet this full sized elk. :facepalm: |
Some people don't understand that animals don't need us to rescue them. They did fine without us getting in the way, and will continue to if we leave them alone.
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I refuse to say anything bad about tourists since the majority of my income comes from them. I will keep my mouth shut but the stories are great.
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Chinese people are doing their best to keep the worst national tourist mantle. |
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Missouri has a decent population. |
I ran across this story yesterday while eating lunch and swear the Christ the first thing that came across my mind was the Yellowstone Park stories you were telling me. And now this thread.
Custer State Park visitor hurt by buffalo CUSTER STATE PARK – Custer State Park officials say a visitor was hospitalized Thursday after suffering injuries while getting too close to a buffalo. Officials say the visitor was injured along Wildlife Loop Road and was flown to a Rapid City hospital. Park Superintendent Matt Snyder says buffalo are wild animals, and visitors are urged to keep a safe distance. Officials didn’t release the person’s name or the extent of the injuries. Park rangers are continuing to look into the incident. http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/d3f5...28-buffalo.PNG Custer County South Dakota Emergency Management said on its Facebook page: "DO NOT TRY TO PET THE BUFFALO! A 50 year old woman from Missouri did not heed the warning signs from a 5 year old bull buffalo today in Custer State Park and was gored. She was lifeflighted to Rapid City Regional hospital." |
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A place I worked at in the summers always had buffalo on their property and those things are just 100 different kinds of stupid but they're also protective as hell. They had to go grab a sick calf once and mamma buffalo ****ed their truck right up as they sprinted back to the truck, put the calf in the bed and got put enough distance between themselves and her to get through the gate and out. If a couple of tourists were close enough to pick that thing up and put it in their SUV, it almost had to have been rejected already. We had some pretty scary shit go down with those buffalo. One of them flipped a truck over just trying to scratch itself on the fender; hooked a shoulder and tipped the thing over like it was a matchbox car. We had another one jump down into a watering trough with us (the trough was on the downside of a fairly steep hill). I suspect it had no idea we were down there and we definitely didn't realize it had come near us. It hopped down and had us cornered. I gave it a baseball swing with a broom and it startled just enough for us to scramble around it, down the trough and out. Look in the eyes on those things and there's really nothing there. They can hurt people on accident because they're just really really big and really really dumb. |
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There's a video on YouTube of someone messing with a buffalo, and it ends with the dude being flipped up into a tree.
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Snapped this pic of a Darwin Award candidate at Yellowstone last year. He was not Chinese btw.
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News has been circulating on social media about people putting a bison calf in their car. The story is true, and its sad conclusion highlights the importance of keeping a safe distance from park wildlife. Here’s the full account: Last week, visitors were cited for placing a newborn bison calf in their vehicle and transporting it to a park facility because of their misplaced concern for the animal's welfare. In terms of human safety, this was a dangerous activity because adult animals are very protective of their young and will act aggressively to defend them. In addition, interference by people can cause mothers to reject their offspring. In this case, park rangers tried repeatedly to reunite the newborn bison calf with the herd. These efforts failed. The bison calf was later euthanized because it was abandoned and causing a dangerous situation by continually approaching people and cars along the roadway. In a recent viral video, a visitor approached within an arm's length of an adult bison in the Old Faithful area. Another video featured visitors posing for pictures with bison at extremely unsafe and illegal distances. Last year, five visitors were seriously injured when they approached bison too closely. Bison injure more visitors to Yellowstone than any other animal. Approaching wild animals can drastically affect their well-being and, in this case, their survival. Park regulations require that you stay at least 25 yards (23 m) away from all wildlife (including bison, elk and deer) and at least 100 yards (91 m) away from bears and wolves. Disregarding these regulations can result in fines, injury, and even death. The safety of these animals, as well as human safety, depends on everyone using good judgment and following these simple rules. |
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a bronco? |
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If he falls in, it'll take a thousand years for him to be digested. |
About twenty years ago me and the GF, at the time, took a trip to Yellowstone. There was an epic snowfall that year. So we did a snowmobile tour of a small area of the park. Given the snow fall the roads/paths had been plowed. The Bison were smart enough to use said roads/paths for their use. So deep into our tour we come around a turn and sure enough there are Bison on the road in single file walking. We had to pass within 6 feet of these massive animals only to have one swing his head and grunt at me. Made me a little concerned...the same tour later on, we on our way to a hot spring and had come to a stop. I look over I see a bush and hiding in there was a female Moose and her baby, I had another concern.
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There are organizations that probably would have gladly taken this bison; why automatically put it down? |
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http://www.ktvq.com/story/31988823/w...-not-relocated |
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These guys are lucky to be alive as well. More guys that visited Yellowstone and left their brains at home. http://www.ktvq.com/story/31986483/m...-national-park |
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Didn't the Chinese government have to start running public info campaigns recently telling their citizens it's not ok to defecate in public when visiting other countries? I'm not joking I think that's a real story.
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Looks like the Bison wrangler was a French Canadian from Quebec.......figures.
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You'd of thought they could of found a buffalo ranch somewhere close that needed a new bloodline that could of taken care of it.
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http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/galler...2.html/?page=1
What do you know...they're Canadian too. Quote:
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I have a rule. If grass is growing there it is safe :D |
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So I stick to the rules :D |
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It's infuriating. |
So yellowstone folks - educate me here.
I presume the reason we do not walk on the spring is because it would interfere with the algae blooms that give the spring its color? I mean, to me it looks like a fairly benign, if hot, body of water that probably isn't going to be badly disturbed by human presence. At least not any more so than countless other natural features in the nation that we allow people to go traipsing about. I think of Yosemite in particular as a place just full of stuff where people are allowed to go just about anywhere that won't kill them (and sometimes places that will). Algae blooms are pretty much impossible to really damage so long as the nutrients that feed them remain in the water. Seeing as how those nutrients are likely coming from deep within the earth, i figure we can't do much to disturb that. I'm sure I'm incredibly wrong here, I'm just curious as to why I'm wrong and what it is I don't understand. |
Both groups are Canadians.
Shocker. There's a reason I ****ing hate Canada and it starts with the people! |
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I totally get not wanting a tide of tourists just walking through there, but it seems unlikely to me that these guys could've actually done any real damage. Hell, it seems unlikely to me that they couldn't take a couple of groups out there daily to 'see the spring' and guide them apart from the liability issues associated with taking anyone onto a shifting mud surface. This just seems like a lot of people are upset about all the damage these guys could've done but I really don't think they could do much; algae's sturdy shit. |
I try very hard NOT to look like a tourist.
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This is just my guess. |
http://abcnews.go.com/US/teen-gored-...ry?id=31095299
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But yeah, they'll do that. Don't **** with buffalo. |
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That said, the bison and elk completely ignored the signs and seemed to be fine. |
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I'm sure bison and elk get taken by sinkholes more than you think.
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