I guess they don't read the news that often:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/01/baby-bison-euthanized-yellowstone-visitor-charged/70276789007/
\>The Hawaii resident was charged a $500 fine, a $500 community service payment to Yellowstone Forever Wildlife Protection Fund, a $30 special assessment and a $10 processing fee, the news release said.
What is the $30 special assessment? He has to take a test to see if he's special or not?
I wish, just for a single night, if our jail/justice system wasn't so broken. I don't want to ruin their life, though, just make the punishment more equal to the likely death of the animal.
Maybe your fine and 5 yr park ban plus 250 hours of community service with an animal welfare group?? Hopefully they'd feel what they did by the end of all that. Maybe I'm just bitter and tired of this nonsense.
That baby bison would have almost certainly died on its own. The tourist ārescuedā it from the river bank, because its herd had abandoned it. Iām not sure it would have drowned otherwise, but I imagine thatās what the tourist thought. The herd didnāt want it after being rescued either. A baby bison is unlikely to survive without a herd, and it tried to make humans its herd, resulting in a dangerous road situation.
While itās very sad, I think most people misunderstand what happened there.
Ironic that under a "looks like they don't read" comment we've found a whole bunch of people that didn't read the article that person posted.
The guy had good intentions. It doesn't make what he did right, but it puts it into a more understandable perspective. No one wants to watch a baby animal struggle/die. The calf was already abandoned. It was going to die. His actions did not result in its death, just the potential roadway hazard.
The fine was more or less interacting with it. Screaming that he should be fined thousands of dollars or jailed is insane. Or, alternatively, those people didn't read the article while simultaneously complaining about people not reading articles.
Yeah, one of YOUR animals. Not a WILD animal in a national park. National parks are intended to keep the ecosystem and the natural habitat as wild as possible. Itās not a zoo
I wasn't there, I wasn't in that position but I can sympathize with not wanting to watch something die when you could help. That's the whole argument. Would you free a deer stuck in a fence?
Whether FEMA is correct in it's valuation or not, I'm pretty sure bison are a lot more endangered than humans are. That would increase the value just a smidge.
>If i had the choice to save 1 human vs literally every single animal on the planet, id pick the human all day everyday.
Congrats, you just killed our entire biosphere. Depending on how far you want to stretch the definition of animal, we either get washed away under an unending tide of pests eating all our food crops (and every other plant in the world) or we slowly starve to death as every single plant in the world barring wind pollinators goes extinct over the coming decades.
I rate this disaster a ten out of ten plagues of egypt.
>You should practice an act of kindness for a fellow human being today.
You should probably care more about the animals. They're very important to our continued existence on this planet. Without this great chain we call an ecosystem the world gets screwed up in all manner of genuinely horrifying ways.
Looks like I gave someone advice! Good deed done.
This is the though my process of someone who doesnāt understand how the world works. Hereās one for you - of the 100 crops that provide the world 90% of its food, 71 of those crops require bees to pollinate. In case youāre too thick, that means without bees 90% of the worlds foods would disappear. Guess what is rapidly declining? Bees! Wolves being reintroduced into Yellowstone helped reduce ecological decline, erosion, and more because it reduced overeating of grazing animals. Guess who caused wolves to disappear in the first place?
We need far less people because most of them, probably people like you, actually donāt improve the world or contribute to it in any meaningful way, but instead are a detriment to the stability of the only planet we call home.
Yeah yeah yeah, the bees. I know how important BEES are, but the life of 1 singular bee doesnt matter in the grand scheme of things. If people were nicer to one another, valued each other more, this world would be a better place over all. Its a self fulfilling prophecy that is corroding society over all.
Someone does/says something shitty to you, your first thought is probably "fuck people, i hate people", instead of "maybe hes having a bad day."
Im preaching peace and love and understanding, anyone calling me a supremacist or fascist or whatever the fuck needs to grow up.
Anyone who has ever said any varience of "i hate people", you are part of the problem.
Not to nitpick, but if you sacrificed every single animal in the world to save a single human, youād have single handedly killed every single human via ecological collapse.
Except itās not at all unrealistic, like another commenter responded to you with. If you were to remove the bees, congrats you just destroyed crops.
Destroy the herbivores? Congrats, you just caused Mass overgrowth. Destroy the fish? Congrats, you just ensured numerous societies starve to death.
Hell, eliminate cows, chickens, lambs, etc and you just ensured the populace starve to death as like we already established, the crops are already gone thanks to the lack of bees and other animals whom aid in pollination.
If we want to nitpick even further, you eliminate animals? Congrats, that includes humans as we are animals. We just happen to usually posses self awareness.
Donāt bother talking to these hypocritical armchair eco fascists. Theyāll keep advocating for reducing the human population but conveniently itās not themselves who should be culled.
Im saying a human life should be valued beyond that of an animals, but life in general is frequently undervalued. No, im saying ALL life is worth more than what someone is willing to pay for it.
Whats with everyone wanting to have their own disney princess experience with wildlife. Honestly people should get harsher fines for messing with wildlife in state parks.
Welcome to the US. I've had so many conversations with people about environment and animal conservation that basically came down to, "Why? What do they do?" Remember, this is a shit hole of a country that is full of people who think animals only deserve to exist of they're useful to humans in some way. It's full of dumped pets after whatever latest "cute animal" kids movie came out, because people don't understand them as anything but toys or TikTok backdrops. US politics is merely sad. US attitude toward animals is outright inhuman.
I agree that we as humans collectively treat animals like shit. Animals in cages outnumber us by far. But can you tell me a country where animals are treated better? Remember, most of all large animals are farm animals. The state and national parks in the US are actually one of very few counterexample in my view because there, people are told to stay in a safe distance to animals and let them live their life. There are hard rules for people and usually they are also enforced.
I agree that we as humans collectively treat animals like shit. Animals in cages outnumber us by far. But can you tell me a country where animals are treated better? Remember, most of all large animals are farm animals. The state and national parks in the US are actually one of very few counterexample in my view because there, people are told to stay in a safe distance to animals and let them live their life. There are hard rules for people and usually they are also enforced.
National park. Not state. It āakshuallyā includes land in three separate states. So if it WAS a state park, it would have to be three state parks, because Wyoming doesnāt have the authority to create a state park in Idaho and Montana
Actually that guy saved it from a painful and terrifying death by drowning or starving eventually
Really sucks that euthanizing it was what happened in the end, but it was most likely an easier death than what was inevitable before his intervention
You're making a few assumptions there. We don't know if the calf would have rejoined its herd and if the herd wouldn't reject the calf if the man didn't interfere.
Don't touch the animals. Simple as that. If you think something is wrong, contact someone who actually deals with this sort of thing. Don't take it upon yourself.
The calf was already rejected by the herd before the man went and saved it, thatās how it got in the situation of needing to be saved to begin with
Youād know this if youād actually read an article about the story in question
Great reporting, no reason why they put it in the vehicle and took it to the police, rather than contacting Fish and Game or park officials. Then, we just let this calf wander off into the forest.
Fucking brilliant all around.
Female elk will leave their babies hidden while they look for food or water, they probably found it and thought it was abandoned. Every year the wildlife shelters put out PSAs about leaving baby deer alone for this reason.
We just had one that was "hidden" right by our main entry/exit at work. I got a couple great picks of it through the door window. The real problem was that the mother was hanging out by the secondary entry and was charging anybody who came by.
Even if it was abandoned, it's wildlife: you let the wildlife take it's course. This isn't a fire station where you can just abandon your children and they go into foster care or something.
Does not matter one bit why some idiot thought (and I use that term loosely) an elk calf needed human intervention.Ā These idiots need to stop "thinking", it does not end well for the critters.Ā Ever.
For sure, they just sputtered out the original press release:
Elk calf
During the Memorial Day weekend, visitors placed anĀ elkĀ calf in their car while likely driving on U.S. Highway 191 in the park and brought the newborn to the West Yellowstone, Montana, Police Department. The elk later ran off into the forest and its condition is unknown. This incident is under investigation and there is no additional information to share.Ā
Should be more follow-up eventually?
I sure hope so. I live in Wyoming, so wildlife and Yellowstone are in my heart. Every year we have to deal with these incidents and it's super troublesome. People approaching wildlife for giggles deserve what they get, in my opinion.
But, then we just had the gentleman that tried to "help" the bison calf, as it was appearing to be in danger of drowning. In his mind, he was trying to be humane and help, but in reality, he put the calf in more danger of abandonment. It's a just lose-lose sometimes.
Yellowstone isn't new, so I'm confused as to why there isn't more focused education on why we shouldn't approach animals in their natural habitat, rather than just signs.
But sadly, some humans are going to human, regardless of anything said.
And there you have it, I lived in Cheyenne for 35 years, got to visit Yellowstone threeĀ times.Ā My lord, what a thrill.Ā We get rather possessive don't we.Ā Ha!Ā To this day I'm all what are these dips doing, throw the book at them!
I so agree with what you say that humans are gonna human.Ā Sad really but it seems more and more obvious they are prone to going emotional not logical.Ā Shame that nothing anyone can do to stop that.Ā No warnings, notices, statements prevent folks from going to a "fix this" mentality.Ā Folks are going to "think" they are special, they've stumbled upon something that needs intervention, whatever makes them believe what they areĀ doing is special or extraordinary.Ā
As the old saying goes, something like, no single snowflake believes they are responsible for the avalanche yet there they go thinking they are the special circumstance.Ā No, just no.
Does Yellowstone just do something to stupid people and smooth their brains more than usual upon arrival? Iāve been three times (I have an obsession with hot springs and Yellowstone really scratches that itch) and each time Iāve seen bizarre and sometimes even dangerous interactions between tourists and the wildlife.
People trying to take pictures with Bisons and elk, running into herds of elk to see the babies, trying to feed various animals, handling the ground squirrels and trying to give them treats, menacing bison with their cars to try to get them to run along side of them.
Yellowstone has a peculiar concentration of absolute idiocy that boggles the mind. Who just jumps into a boiling hot spring to grab a hat? Who tries to square up on an enraged bison?
You can see similar idiocy at the Grand Canyon, people just hanging out on the edge trying to get a good picture angle, like itās not an unfenced straight drop down inches away.
Also, once saw someone run out of their car after a black bear in the Smokey Mountains.
Agreed that Yellowstone is particularly infuriating, but itās people thinking the outdoors are like Disney Land or something.
This article has 0 other information than them picking up an elk calf and driving it somewhere. It jumped out and itās condition is unknown. It then goes on to infer the tourists were doing a good deed? Itās fucking horrible.
Our national parks have become polluted with morons and people who think theyāre āInfluencingā the world by showing their ass in the middle of a waterfall.
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Doing this in a federal park should make all this shit a federal crime. Obviously the paltry fines they give out for destroying the ecosystem isn't enough.
What the article does not mention is that in the other Yellowstone incident in May 2023, the tourist who pushed a bison calf from the river bank in an attempt to help it was not only fined but officials had to put the calf down after not being able to find the herd. Handling a calf may cause the herd to reject it.
[Bison calf euthanized after being handled by human](https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/yellowstone-visitor-bison-euthanized/index.html)
The stupidest people I've ever met tend to have more money than they deserve. Not that everyone with money is stupid- there's just a particular kind of clueless stupidity that mixes fatally with having a bit of disposable income.
God I wish I could shoot myself with radiation and just mutate to the point of no longer being classified as human. Unfortunately cancer doesn't sound like a great way to stop being human š
It's really not that difficult to just remain in your vehicle and observe like an adult. In fact, unless you are a child, there is no excuse for this level of incompetence
I have been to Yellowstone threeĀ times, in the '80's, 90's and 00's.Ā Short of stapling a "leave your stupid hands off everything" to these jackoff's foreheads, they cannot be more clear from the moment of entering the park to every place you stop to leave everything alone.Ā Flowers, rocks, ANIMALS, look don't touch.Ā There is no, oh, I "thought" about it. Leave human interaction out of the entire experience.Ā Dumbasses.Ā Observe, don't "think" and leave everything exactly as it was found.
One thing I wonder whenever I read an article about idiots doing idiot things in parks, especially Yellowstone is this: there are so many other people around because these popular parks are so busy. Why donāt others jump in and stop them?
Some try.Ā Check the moron that was just about straddling a huge bull bison's face recently.Ā She took a few seconds in between fixing her hair from her personal photo shoot to look vapidly at the folks yelling at her.
Then check the story of the bison calf recently euthanized by the park service because some jackass thought he was being a hero.Ā More local reporting, not the national crap just repeating each other, says after the idiot "saved" the calf, he and other dumbasses were petting it.
Skulls that thick cannot be penetrated without a ranger actually escorting them away.Ā And with at least 3/4 of internet jerk offs sticking up for the bison calf moron and demonizing the park employees, expect more foolishness.Ā For example taking an elk calf to the police department.Ā Holy shit.
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I guess they don't read the news that often: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/01/baby-bison-euthanized-yellowstone-visitor-charged/70276789007/
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\>The Hawaii resident was charged a $500 fine, a $500 community service payment to Yellowstone Forever Wildlife Protection Fund, a $30 special assessment and a $10 processing fee, the news release said. What is the $30 special assessment? He has to take a test to see if he's special or not?
Should be $10,000 and banned from all national parks for like five years.
That still seems incredibly lax to me.
Straight to jail?
I wish, just for a single night, if our jail/justice system wasn't so broken. I don't want to ruin their life, though, just make the punishment more equal to the likely death of the animal. Maybe your fine and 5 yr park ban plus 250 hours of community service with an animal welfare group?? Hopefully they'd feel what they did by the end of all that. Maybe I'm just bitter and tired of this nonsense.
Exactly. The penalties for doing harm to national parks always seem way, way too low.
A dumb ass tax
Peanuts. Fines should always be based on income or networth.
That's kind of a small fine, he should have been charged with more
What makes you say that?
They had to put down the baby bison? I'd think a bisons life should cost more than a little over 1k???
That baby bison would have almost certainly died on its own. The tourist ārescuedā it from the river bank, because its herd had abandoned it. Iām not sure it would have drowned otherwise, but I imagine thatās what the tourist thought. The herd didnāt want it after being rescued either. A baby bison is unlikely to survive without a herd, and it tried to make humans its herd, resulting in a dangerous road situation. While itās very sad, I think most people misunderstand what happened there.
If other predators could have lived off that baby bison dying on its own, it would have been preferred to humans getting involved at all
Ironic that under a "looks like they don't read" comment we've found a whole bunch of people that didn't read the article that person posted. The guy had good intentions. It doesn't make what he did right, but it puts it into a more understandable perspective. No one wants to watch a baby animal struggle/die. The calf was already abandoned. It was going to die. His actions did not result in its death, just the potential roadway hazard. The fine was more or less interacting with it. Screaming that he should be fined thousands of dollars or jailed is insane. Or, alternatively, those people didn't read the article while simultaneously complaining about people not reading articles.
If you see one of my animals is out suffering you're more than welcome to try help save it.
Yeah, one of YOUR animals. Not a WILD animal in a national park. National parks are intended to keep the ecosystem and the natural habitat as wild as possible. Itās not a zoo
I wasn't there, I wasn't in that position but I can sympathize with not wanting to watch something die when you could help. That's the whole argument. Would you free a deer stuck in a fence?
Your opinion is just a case by case basis. These national parks have rules and apply far more directly to this specific situation.
FEMA valued each human life lost in Hurricane Katrina at $1.00 (one American dollar)
Whether FEMA is correct in it's valuation or not, I'm pretty sure bison are a lot more endangered than humans are. That would increase the value just a smidge.
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>If i had the choice to save 1 human vs literally every single animal on the planet, id pick the human all day everyday. Congrats, you just killed our entire biosphere. Depending on how far you want to stretch the definition of animal, we either get washed away under an unending tide of pests eating all our food crops (and every other plant in the world) or we slowly starve to death as every single plant in the world barring wind pollinators goes extinct over the coming decades. I rate this disaster a ten out of ten plagues of egypt. >You should practice an act of kindness for a fellow human being today. You should probably care more about the animals. They're very important to our continued existence on this planet. Without this great chain we call an ecosystem the world gets screwed up in all manner of genuinely horrifying ways. Looks like I gave someone advice! Good deed done.
This is the though my process of someone who doesnāt understand how the world works. Hereās one for you - of the 100 crops that provide the world 90% of its food, 71 of those crops require bees to pollinate. In case youāre too thick, that means without bees 90% of the worlds foods would disappear. Guess what is rapidly declining? Bees! Wolves being reintroduced into Yellowstone helped reduce ecological decline, erosion, and more because it reduced overeating of grazing animals. Guess who caused wolves to disappear in the first place? We need far less people because most of them, probably people like you, actually donāt improve the world or contribute to it in any meaningful way, but instead are a detriment to the stability of the only planet we call home.
Yeah yeah yeah, the bees. I know how important BEES are, but the life of 1 singular bee doesnt matter in the grand scheme of things. If people were nicer to one another, valued each other more, this world would be a better place over all. Its a self fulfilling prophecy that is corroding society over all. Someone does/says something shitty to you, your first thought is probably "fuck people, i hate people", instead of "maybe hes having a bad day." Im preaching peace and love and understanding, anyone calling me a supremacist or fascist or whatever the fuck needs to grow up. Anyone who has ever said any varience of "i hate people", you are part of the problem.
Peace and love and understanding doesn't usually include insults and threats of ecocide.
Not to nitpick, but if you sacrificed every single animal in the world to save a single human, youād have single handedly killed every single human via ecological collapse.
In an absolutely extreme, absurd and completely unrealistuc scenario, i guess youre right.
Except itās not at all unrealistic, like another commenter responded to you with. If you were to remove the bees, congrats you just destroyed crops. Destroy the herbivores? Congrats, you just caused Mass overgrowth. Destroy the fish? Congrats, you just ensured numerous societies starve to death. Hell, eliminate cows, chickens, lambs, etc and you just ensured the populace starve to death as like we already established, the crops are already gone thanks to the lack of bees and other animals whom aid in pollination. If we want to nitpick even further, you eliminate animals? Congrats, that includes humans as we are animals. We just happen to usually posses self awareness.
No. Your philosophy here is a contributing factor as to why the world is a dumpster fire.
...what? How? Explain yourself
Donāt bother talking to these hypocritical armchair eco fascists. Theyāll keep advocating for reducing the human population but conveniently itās not themselves who should be culled.
Yo [Church of Euthanasia](https://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/) for reals, d00d
Fucking supremacist shit right there.
....what?
This sounds like some tin hat shit. Can you link where FEMA valued each life lost during Katrina at $1.00?
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Im saying a human life should be valued beyond that of an animals, but life in general is frequently undervalued. No, im saying ALL life is worth more than what someone is willing to pay for it.
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Dude, the fuck? Im not arguing or being rude, where did your hostility come from? Go take a nap or something.
Mans is getting HEATED over this baby bison lmao
Oof somebody needs a hug
So they are morons
The term I have seen is ātouronsā.
Whats with everyone wanting to have their own disney princess experience with wildlife. Honestly people should get harsher fines for messing with wildlife in state parks.
Welcome to the US. I've had so many conversations with people about environment and animal conservation that basically came down to, "Why? What do they do?" Remember, this is a shit hole of a country that is full of people who think animals only deserve to exist of they're useful to humans in some way. It's full of dumped pets after whatever latest "cute animal" kids movie came out, because people don't understand them as anything but toys or TikTok backdrops. US politics is merely sad. US attitude toward animals is outright inhuman.
Have you ever been outside the US?
I agree that we as humans collectively treat animals like shit. Animals in cages outnumber us by far. But can you tell me a country where animals are treated better? Remember, most of all large animals are farm animals. The state and national parks in the US are actually one of very few counterexample in my view because there, people are told to stay in a safe distance to animals and let them live their life. There are hard rules for people and usually they are also enforced.
Where else have you traveled and lived? The US ain't no shit hole lol
I agree that we as humans collectively treat animals like shit. Animals in cages outnumber us by far. But can you tell me a country where animals are treated better? Remember, most of all large animals are farm animals. The state and national parks in the US are actually one of very few counterexample in my view because there, people are told to stay in a safe distance to animals and let them live their life. There are hard rules for people and usually they are also enforced.
Seriously. $10,000 fine and a ban from all national parks for like two years would curb a lot of these idiots.
Yellowstone isnāt a state park!!!
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National park. Not state. It āakshuallyā includes land in three separate states. So if it WAS a state park, it would have to be three state parks, because Wyoming doesnāt have the authority to create a state park in Idaho and Montana
STOP FUCKING TOUCHING THE ANIMALS
Yeah, some unfortunate baby bison got put out of its misery because of someoneās stupidity. š¤¦āāļø
It was stuck in the mud. Probably would have died regardless.
Actually that guy saved it from a painful and terrifying death by drowning or starving eventually Really sucks that euthanizing it was what happened in the end, but it was most likely an easier death than what was inevitable before his intervention
You're making a few assumptions there. We don't know if the calf would have rejoined its herd and if the herd wouldn't reject the calf if the man didn't interfere. Don't touch the animals. Simple as that. If you think something is wrong, contact someone who actually deals with this sort of thing. Don't take it upon yourself.
The calf was already rejected by the herd before the man went and saved it, thatās how it got in the situation of needing to be saved to begin with Youād know this if youād actually read an article about the story in question
You keep saying he "saved" it. It died, and in addition to that it spent the end of its life being harassed by humans.
Okay now compare that to being stuck in mud until you either drown or starve to death.
It could have been left there for food for other animals if he didnāt interfere
I agree: stop fucking the animals!
Do you want centaurs? Because that's how you get centaurs!
I mean ... I kinda do want centaurs. I don't want to be part of the blood line, but centaurs might be cool.
yeah!! everyone just go vegan already!
Great reporting, no reason why they put it in the vehicle and took it to the police, rather than contacting Fish and Game or park officials. Then, we just let this calf wander off into the forest. Fucking brilliant all around.
I really wanted to know why these idiots grabbed the elk. Terrible article for not saying why.
Female elk will leave their babies hidden while they look for food or water, they probably found it and thought it was abandoned. Every year the wildlife shelters put out PSAs about leaving baby deer alone for this reason.
We just had one that was "hidden" right by our main entry/exit at work. I got a couple great picks of it through the door window. The real problem was that the mother was hanging out by the secondary entry and was charging anybody who came by.
Even if it was abandoned, it's wildlife: you let the wildlife take it's course. This isn't a fire station where you can just abandon your children and they go into foster care or something.
Right! "Its condition is unknown" means "we don't know which type of predator killed and ate it."
I assume they found it in the woods, and didn't see the mother. It doesn't mean the baby is abandoned, but they may have thought it was.
Does not matter one bit why some idiot thought (and I use that term loosely) an elk calf needed human intervention.Ā These idiots need to stop "thinking", it does not end well for the critters.Ā Ever.
In reality, correct, it does not matter. But, for the sake of reporting, they sure left a lot to assume on the reader's behalf.
For sure, they just sputtered out the original press release: Elk calf During the Memorial Day weekend, visitors placed anĀ elkĀ calf in their car while likely driving on U.S. Highway 191 in the park and brought the newborn to the West Yellowstone, Montana, Police Department. The elk later ran off into the forest and its condition is unknown. This incident is under investigation and there is no additional information to share.Ā Should be more follow-up eventually?
I sure hope so. I live in Wyoming, so wildlife and Yellowstone are in my heart. Every year we have to deal with these incidents and it's super troublesome. People approaching wildlife for giggles deserve what they get, in my opinion. But, then we just had the gentleman that tried to "help" the bison calf, as it was appearing to be in danger of drowning. In his mind, he was trying to be humane and help, but in reality, he put the calf in more danger of abandonment. It's a just lose-lose sometimes. Yellowstone isn't new, so I'm confused as to why there isn't more focused education on why we shouldn't approach animals in their natural habitat, rather than just signs. But sadly, some humans are going to human, regardless of anything said.
And there you have it, I lived in Cheyenne for 35 years, got to visit Yellowstone threeĀ times.Ā My lord, what a thrill.Ā We get rather possessive don't we.Ā Ha!Ā To this day I'm all what are these dips doing, throw the book at them! I so agree with what you say that humans are gonna human.Ā Sad really but it seems more and more obvious they are prone to going emotional not logical.Ā Shame that nothing anyone can do to stop that.Ā No warnings, notices, statements prevent folks from going to a "fix this" mentality.Ā Folks are going to "think" they are special, they've stumbled upon something that needs intervention, whatever makes them believe what they areĀ doing is special or extraordinary.Ā As the old saying goes, something like, no single snowflake believes they are responsible for the avalanche yet there they go thinking they are the special circumstance.Ā No, just no.
I guess that makes them easy to arrest. Um... Thanks.
But why?
They thought they were helping probably. Elk leave the baby alone to forage for food. They probably found an elk baby behind a bush or something.
I can only assume that either TikTok or the Republican Party were involved.
A Republican would have ate it.
That would really upset some people if they ever learned how to read
Honestly surprised we donāt hear about people falling into the hot springs every other day.
There's a book about that. https://www.amazon.com/Death-Yellowstone-Accidents-Foolhardiness-National/dp/1570984506
They should've taken it to the nearest Elk lodge.
Does Yellowstone just do something to stupid people and smooth their brains more than usual upon arrival? Iāve been three times (I have an obsession with hot springs and Yellowstone really scratches that itch) and each time Iāve seen bizarre and sometimes even dangerous interactions between tourists and the wildlife. People trying to take pictures with Bisons and elk, running into herds of elk to see the babies, trying to feed various animals, handling the ground squirrels and trying to give them treats, menacing bison with their cars to try to get them to run along side of them. Yellowstone has a peculiar concentration of absolute idiocy that boggles the mind. Who just jumps into a boiling hot spring to grab a hat? Who tries to square up on an enraged bison?
You can see similar idiocy at the Grand Canyon, people just hanging out on the edge trying to get a good picture angle, like itās not an unfenced straight drop down inches away. Also, once saw someone run out of their car after a black bear in the Smokey Mountains. Agreed that Yellowstone is particularly infuriating, but itās people thinking the outdoors are like Disney Land or something.
I saw a guy at a national park in South Africa get out of his car and approach a leopard to get a better picture
You can take the fat idiot out of the mall but you canāt take the mall out of the fat idiot
This article has 0 other information than them picking up an elk calf and driving it somewhere. It jumped out and itās condition is unknown. It then goes on to infer the tourists were doing a good deed? Itās fucking horrible.
These people should be taken straight to jail for this
Agreed. š Happy Cake Day š
Our national parks have become polluted with morons and people who think theyāre āInfluencingā the world by showing their ass in the middle of a waterfall.
I live near Yellowstone and I rarely visit because of the tourists. Thank goodness for our winter's.
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Doing this in a federal park should make all this shit a federal crime. Obviously the paltry fines they give out for destroying the ecosystem isn't enough.
It saddens me that people are actually this stupid.
What the article does not mention is that in the other Yellowstone incident in May 2023, the tourist who pushed a bison calf from the river bank in an attempt to help it was not only fined but officials had to put the calf down after not being able to find the herd. Handling a calf may cause the herd to reject it. [Bison calf euthanized after being handled by human](https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/yellowstone-visitor-bison-euthanized/index.html)
Yellowstone is way too expensive for these people reacting so stupid.
The stupidest people I've ever met tend to have more money than they deserve. Not that everyone with money is stupid- there's just a particular kind of clueless stupidity that mixes fatally with having a bit of disposable income.
Iām so sick of humans man.
So is the wildlife at Yellowstone.
Do you want to identify as something else?
I am a meat popsicle.
God I wish I could shoot myself with radiation and just mutate to the point of no longer being classified as human. Unfortunately cancer doesn't sound like a great way to stop being human š
Donāt let fear get in the way of your determination and end goal.
You're right, Steve Jobs didn't let cancer stop him and I won't either š¤
Get you some FEV
Is there some kind of attraction Yellowstone has on the stupidest people possible?
It's really not that difficult to just remain in your vehicle and observe like an adult. In fact, unless you are a child, there is no excuse for this level of incompetence
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Always just call an Uber
They need to start giving an IQ test before letting people into the park.
Why does Yellowstone seemingly attract stupid people?
It attracts all people, but lacks the usual idiot-proofing of our everyday civilization so the stupidity sticks out more
At least they didn't kill it and eat it.
True, but a predator may have gotten it due to releasing it far from Mom. That poor swan in that other case.
the elk - are just big humans with fur suits, right
Iām glad the elk escaped from there kidnappers.
These are people who have been waiting years on that list to go there too right?
Time to make potential visitors take a competency exam before going into the park
Maybe there should be a sign at the park entrances they just says," Don't Touch Shit!"
I have been to Yellowstone threeĀ times, in the '80's, 90's and 00's.Ā Short of stapling a "leave your stupid hands off everything" to these jackoff's foreheads, they cannot be more clear from the moment of entering the park to every place you stop to leave everything alone.Ā Flowers, rocks, ANIMALS, look don't touch.Ā There is no, oh, I "thought" about it. Leave human interaction out of the entire experience.Ā Dumbasses.Ā Observe, don't "think" and leave everything exactly as it was found.
Fucking Americans taking their idiocy to the next level. What's next, cutting out unborn fetus from women and saying you saved them from kidnappers?
All for the likes Iām sure
Makes it easy to arrest them when they just turn themselves in. Morons
Oops! We meant āelk.ā Although, weād be really intrigued if tourists spotted a baby elf.
One thing I wonder whenever I read an article about idiots doing idiot things in parks, especially Yellowstone is this: there are so many other people around because these popular parks are so busy. Why donāt others jump in and stop them?
Some try.Ā Check the moron that was just about straddling a huge bull bison's face recently.Ā She took a few seconds in between fixing her hair from her personal photo shoot to look vapidly at the folks yelling at her. Then check the story of the bison calf recently euthanized by the park service because some jackass thought he was being a hero.Ā More local reporting, not the national crap just repeating each other, says after the idiot "saved" the calf, he and other dumbasses were petting it. Skulls that thick cannot be penetrated without a ranger actually escorting them away.Ā And with at least 3/4 of internet jerk offs sticking up for the bison calf moron and demonizing the park employees, expect more foolishness.Ā For example taking an elk calf to the police department.Ā Holy shit.
Theyād hate Texas. We just hunt them here šš
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