Stupid Tourists

[Subdeacon Joe]

One carrying a kid!

 

 

 

[PowderRiverCowboy]

 

[Alpo]

I was planning to post this in the funny photos thread, but it seems like it belongs here.

 

[Alpo]

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

Do a search for 'bison selfie' and prepare to embrace the stupid.

 

 

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

I call it Disney Syndrome.

 

Urbanites and suburbanites don't interact with non domesticated animals, so they learn about them from TV and movies.

 

Nobody watches Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom style shows anymore- but every snot bandit can do the dialogue from every Disney film. 

[Rip Snorter]

Darwin Lives!

[J-BAR #18287]

1 hour ago, Rip Snorter said:

Darwin Lives!

 

Actually, he evolved

[Eyesa Horg]

I watched the one over a minute long, several vids of of brain dead dumbasses. If not gored, my preference, they should be arrested, jailed, and fined. See how fun their vacation is now !!

[Sixgun Sheridan]

There's actually now a name for these folks: Tourons.

 

Tourist + Moron

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

27 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

I watched the one over a minute long, several vids of of brain dead dumbasses. If not gored, my preference, they should be arrested, jailed, and fined. See how fun their vacation is now !!

Sad thing is, when- not if- they get clawed, chewed on or stomped into a puddle of goo, the animal suffers for their dumbassery.

[Lone Spur Jake SASS #7728]

Maybe the penalty for dumbasses who survive should be, "For the next 30 days you will have to feed such animal as you tried to play with, by feeding such animal with your hand to their mouth 3 times a day".  "If you survive the 30 days, you will be able to put on fresh underwear and go home".

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I worked in Yellowstone for a summer in 1960....washing dishes, but still.....

 

We saw it every day, mostly more than once.  Saw some people get hurt and a lot of near misses, a number of cars damaged, a tent or two demolished, and a bear shot by the rangers after she was so injured she couldn't survive.

[Presidio]

Took a Family Vacation to Yellowstone in July 2022.  I didn't believe all the stories I had heard before, until I saw it 1/2 a dozen times a day for two days, of these "Tourons" trying to interact with the wildlife.

 

Parents letting their kids playing around the hot springs off of the boardwalks, getting within an arms reach of bison and elk, driving slowly along side a bison so they reach out and touch them, leaving exposed leftover foods around picnic areas and camp sights. 

 

The list is not only endless - it's evolving.

 

And the only thing I could think each time was " And they're still breeding? "

 

What aggravated me the most, is when an animal has to suffer and/or be put down because of these idiot interactions.

 

 

[Texas Maverick]

Leave em be, this is a great way to rid the world of the idiots by reducing their gene pool.

 

TM

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

problem with that is they is breeding faster than nature can take em out 

 

  CB 

[Warden Callaway]

Raised on the farm and I've been exposed to all kinds of domestic animals. Even old Bossie can hurt you, even if unintentionally.  Turkey and geese can be down right mean.  Don't fall in the hog pin, they could eat you.  Strange dogs. 

[DocWard]

On 9/12/2023 at 5:43 PM, Smuteye John SASS#24774 said:

Do a search for 'bison selfie' and prepare to embrace the stupid.

 

 

 

Look more closely. I'm betting these are "domesticated" bison, used to having people around. In the top photo there appears to be what might be a grain trough, and the bottom photo, appears to be loose hay, along with someone working in the background.

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

2 minutes ago, DocWard said:

 

Look more closely. I'm betting these are "domesticated" bison, used to having people around. In the top photo there appears to be what might be a grain trough, and the bottom photo, appears to be loose hay, along with someone working in the background.

Guy down the road had bison and later beefalo (cow-bison crosses).

 

 

Both were bughouse nuts and mean.  The County made him get rid of his last one after it got out one time too many and beat up a county service truck- with the crew in it.

[DocWard]

11 minutes ago, Smuteye John SASS#24774 said:

Guy down the road had bison and later beefalo (cow-bison crosses).

 

 

Both were bughouse nuts and mean.  The County made him get rid of his last one after it got out one time too many and beat up a county service truck- with the crew in it.

 

There are several farms raising them in the county I live in and surrounding counties. I've not heard of any real issues, but that doesn't mean there aren't. Of course, I've seen horses and cattle get out and be... Challenging, to say the least.

[Trailrider #896]

If someone wants to feed a buffalo without getting hurt, there is a bison ranch on the border of Colorado and Wyoming, off I-25, where you can ride a special train, which stops and the semi-tame buffs will come up to the sides of the open cars, and you can feed them bits.  They've got other critters you can see from the train, as well.  

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

22 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

I worked in Yellowstone for a summer in 1960....washing dishes, but still.....

 

We saw it every day, mostly more than once.  Saw some people get hurt and a lot of near misses, a number of cars damaged, a tent or two demolished, and a bear shot by the rangers after she was so injured she couldn't survive.

My son worked there in the early 2000s. These days they put the bears down who break into staff camps. Once they get a taste of human food and trash, they come back for more. His group was told that if they didn’t mind their camp and bear boxes, and a bear had to be put down, the bear’s death was on them. IIRC, the responsible staff members were let go.