Yellowstone tourist upset that grizzly bears weren't trained well enough.
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When I worked at the restaurant in Yellowstone I had a table ask me what time they put the animals back in their cages. I told them we asked the tourists to be in their hotels by 9:00 p.m..
This explains a lot about my visit to Yellowstone. Soooo many people would go up to the animals and try to pet them or take pictures with them. I saw a guy walking up to a bison that was standing next to the road. He got within about 5 or 6 feet before we decided we didn’t want to see a man die and decided to nope out of there. Then, a little while later, we saw a line of about 10 cars stopped on the side of the road. We look out the window and see tons of people chasing three grizzly cubs with what I assume to be their momma standing off in the distance watching her cubs being chased towards her. We decided it was probably best to leave before momma got mad.
I don’t get how people can know so little about a place they likely paid a lot of money to visit, and it’s not like the park doesn’t try to warn people, they give out tons of fliers when you get there telling you the animals are wild and can be dangerous.
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I don’t get how people can know so little about a place they likely paid a lot of money to visit, and it’s not like the park doesn’t try to warn people, they give out tons of fliers when you get there telling you the animals are wild and can be dangerous.
It's not even a new thing.
Twenty-five/thirty years ago, my 8th grade teacher told us a story of being stuck in a buffalo jam. As they were sitting there, waiting for the herd to finish moseying across the road, one huge bull turned and started ambling along the cars, looking in through the windows. A couple cars in front of Mr. B___, this woman rolled her window down and held some sort of treat out toward it.
The bull, naturally, ate the treat. And the next one. And the next one. This woman is feeding him and posing, and her husband is snapping pictures, and they're just so obviously having the time of their lives.
And then they ran out of treats. And the buffalo wasn't done eating treats.
There's this move you see calves do where they headbutt the mom to get them to let down more milk. This bull proceeded to ask for more treats in approved bovine fashion - 1000+ lbs of muscle and horn against a little compact car.
They had to call a wrecker after he finally ambled off.
It's amazing that we haven't extincted ourselves.