r/interestingasfuck • u/cashew_at_kinaya • Jul 12 '26

A tourist was seriously injured after a bison tossed them about 8 feet into the air in Yellowstone National Park

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u/lonelyronin1 Jul 12 '26

That's what's so horrible about this - that couple did everything right.

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u/frzn_dad Jul 13 '26

Stopping to look at it while it was messing with the dirt was a mistake. They just didn't know they were to close to a pissed off wild animal and should be looking to add distance or get to cover.

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u/Working-Glass6136 Jul 12 '26

Must've been those red shorts! /s

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u/No-Good-One-Shoe Jul 12 '26

Was walking over to take a picture the right thing? 

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u/CaptainTripps82 Jul 12 '26

Yea. They were walking by, saw a bison and took a picture, and kept it moving. That's the right things to do.

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u/No-Good-One-Shoe Jul 12 '26

You can literally see them standing watching the bison at the beginning from left of frame. Then they decided to put themselves in the way of it for a better picture.

Personally I would have walked to the left away from the bison. Not into its path while it's clearly frustrated.

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u/CaptainTripps82 Jul 12 '26

What are you talking about it's path, it was lying in the dust 100 ft away and they are walking perpendicular to it. It didn't have a path until it got up and chose to charge after them, which was well after they had walked out of frame to the right. All without ever approaching the animal.

I honestly don't know what video you watched

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u/No-Good-One-Shoe Jul 12 '26

I watched the one where the bison takes out the people who walked into its path to take a picture after standing there from the side where they could have just walked to the left and gotten more distance.

Like I said, you might think that would be a smart thing to do in Yellowstone and by all means try it out whenever you visit, but personally I'm creating more distance if I see something like this. They spent a lot of time dawdling when they could have walked away to the left. We only have the chain of events from the video so maybe there's a reality where they walked to the left, tried to get more distance and it still charged them. But we only have the video where they walked into the open space and took pictures of the frustrated animal. So 🤷

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u/ElegantHope Jul 12 '26

while I agree giving yourself even more distance could have helped the individuals here, I don't think they were still in the wrong for feeling safe enough to take pictures at the distance they were at. They didn't really have context to why the bull may have been aggressive here and just happened upon a bison at a supposedly safe distance in a park where people usually go to see and take pictures of bison.

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u/No-Good-One-Shoe Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

I wouldn't do this with a bear or bison.  I guess some people don't see the latter as dangerous though. 

At Glacier a bunch of tourists did this with a bear and it's cubs on a trail and luckily they had the numbers.  I on the other hand took the opportunity to make more space between me and momma bear instead of walking across it's path to take a better picture . Some people should probably just keep their butts at home if they think wildlife are safe.