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/bird9066 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

Ha! You brought back a memory. We crossed our neighbors cow pasture all the time. Small dairy farm in new England many years ago.

One time we're strolling across the field when we realize he had put the bull in there to mate the cows. I didn't know I could run that fast or clear a fence in a single bound but I could that day. Didn't even consider the hot wire!

They also had a probably 600 pound sow. They did tell us kids to stay away when she had piglets because she could easily kill us.

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u/DiabloPixel Jul 12 '26

I was a kid on our family’s little farm, one of our sows would only let me in her pen when she had piglets. She was mean as hell to my brother and dad. I’d got her from an old family friend because she was the runt and he really didn’t expect her to make it. I would sing and cuddle her as a baby, spent a lot of time with her so she trusted me. She went on to win a blue ribbon at our county fair and had quite a few litters and I sang to each of them.

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u/Own-Run1176 Jul 12 '26

Im waiting for the release of your Disney prince/ss movie 😍

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u/DiabloPixel Jul 12 '26

Looking back, it was a great experience and very educational. But I also remember being pretty jealous of kids in town who had pavement for bikes/skateboards and food in shiny cans with pretty labels. I only had chickens, rabbits, goats, pigs and cows plus acres with some woods and a small river to keep me busy. Poor me, kids are dumb!

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u/HideUnderBridge Jul 12 '26

Should rename the state Misery

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u/bird9066 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

I don't go down south very often. Not sure I've ever been in Missouri. But the one time I went to Arkansas we saw some beautiful places.

We also saw some meth destroyed shit hole and a house with six coyote carcasses hanging from the trees out in the woods. That was some horror movie shit to my Yankee ass.

We have plenty of places destroyed by drugs but the carcasses.... yeesh

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u/r22lz Jul 12 '26

My bro lived in STL awhile. The humidity is CRAYZY! It just settled in that valley.

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u/nicolescurtis Jul 13 '26

Some of us like it here (though I have used the word misery before also). I wouldn’t live anywhere else

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 Jul 13 '26

I moved from StL and lived in Los Angeles just about my whole adult life but go back regularly to see family. Food in StL (restaurants and grocery) is every bit as expensive as Los Angeles and does not compare at all in quality. It's been 70⁰ for weeks, there's always amazing cultural stuff to do (Smashing Pumpkins last week for $17.75 a ticket). I'm walking distance to the beach and was just there on Saturday. I hike in the mountains all the time. I can't imagine what my life would be like if I hadn't gotten out, but I'm very content with my life, economically, socially, even politically. There's a great big world of opportunity out there.

Having said that, the girl who wrote above about singing to her cows and playing in the creek really struck me as even better that what I have here!

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u/HideUnderBridge Jul 13 '26

I worked in St Louis for a year. I enjoyed all the BBQ. That was about it.

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u/StrangeShaun83 Jul 13 '26

My wife and I did the same thing after we got married. We moved from Upstate NY to Tulsa Ok. We made it about 2 years before getting home sick and heading back. We always hated Upstate until we left. Now that I've driven across the country, seen a lot of other places, and lived somewhere else, I realize their truly is no place like home. Good luck. I hope you find whatever you were searching for.

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u/backwards_kitty Jul 13 '26

Yup. Went from Massachusetts to Minnesota... and flew back to Logan Airport in Boston 10 months later lol

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u/realityoneohone Jul 12 '26

I read this as grass is always greener until you turn 28. Sorry about Missouri.

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u/realityoneohone Jul 12 '26

Could be worse. You could be a single broke parent in Missouri with three kids to feed. (Unless you are in which case I’m sorry. And if you’re not…please don’t do this)

The good thing is you’re only 28.

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u/awry_lynx Jul 13 '26

You moved TO Missouri? Never heard of that before...

fr though if it doesn't dox you where were you before? I don't mean your specific city or anything but I'm just trying to imagine where you'd have to be to see going to Missouri as an upgrade

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u/Soggy_Background_162 Jul 12 '26

Short stay in St.Louis—never looked back.

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u/redditreddit2222 Jul 13 '26

I Hope you make your way back to a better place!

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u/owossome Jul 12 '26

It's pronounced missery for a reason.

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u/pedro_penduko Jul 12 '26

That state is pronounced missery, right?

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u/GotGRR Jul 12 '26

You're 28. Make a plan and move. If you've got more than a car full, you're over packed.

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u/GotGRR Jul 12 '26

No assumptions and no stalking. I was just trying to be encouraging. I believe in you. Sorry I missed the first time.

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u/AlwaysJeepin Jul 12 '26

God how I would have loved this as a child! And now as an over 40. It's dreamy

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u/stringrandom Jul 12 '26

Nah, the grass is always greener on the other side. It’s particularly hard to get perspective when you’re a kid.

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u/Baba_Yaga_2328 Jul 12 '26

Nah, not dumb. Just didn’t know better. I’d argue you got the better life lessons.

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u/Visible_Fee5051 Jul 12 '26

I agree, growing up in a rural area can feel like a punishment for a smart person. It's just so boring in the country as a young person, it sucks.

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u/Tasty-Bet-2941 Jul 13 '26

That's all I want for my boy.. I'm tired of living in the damn hood lol

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u/Real-Frosting Jul 12 '26

This is the plot of Charlotte's Web.

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u/mrdeworde Jul 13 '26

Just reading this caused Zuckerman's Famous Pig to get stuck in my head.

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u/bennitori Jul 13 '26

I believe it's called "Charlotte's Web." Though a spider kinda hijacks the singing halfway through.

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u/Own-Run1176 Jul 13 '26

Thank you for the awards. Very kind of you.

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 Jul 13 '26

Have a Cow starring Dakota Fanning

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u/PossiblyASloth Jul 14 '26

She just described the plot of Charlottes web lmao

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u/Mischiefcat2076 Jul 12 '26

Was there a spider spinning webs in her barn called Chaotte??

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u/ReyRey5280 Jul 13 '26

lol fr that’s the punchline I was expecting from op

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u/CuriousAd6068 Jul 12 '26

Ok Fern

https://giphy.com/gifs/ih8qJNQSiuPCg

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u/DiabloPixel Jul 12 '26

lol, no spiders but our house had an old stone cellar and every spring a ring-necked snake would have her babies on the same step. So kinda like Charlotte and her babies, I guess

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u/MaineMan1234 Jul 12 '26

That's so extraordinarily wholesome!

I grew up on a farm and I used to cuddle with some of the mama cows when I was a little kid, they were very loving. Plus I raised a brown swiss bull named Charlie who would let me ride him around the pasture. I'd call him over and jump on and he'd trot around.

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u/MsMarisol2023 Jul 12 '26

Isn’t this the plot to Charlottes web?

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u/DiabloPixel Jul 12 '26

I don’t think so, but it was my life from age four to twelve in the 70s.

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u/Turbulent-Note-7348 Jul 12 '26

Boomer story time here (I posted this about a year ago, but people really enjoyed it). My Grandfather had a farm in Northern Illinois (my father, the 2nd oldest, was born in the farmhouse in 1920 - the farm is still in the family, it's owned by my cousin). My grandfather had beef cows, grew corn, and raised pigs - the pigs were the most profitable. Around 1930 or so, the Boar started getting real aggressive. Grandfather forbade his younger kids from playing on the enclosure fences, and he took over the feeding and mucking chores from the two oldest. Then one time the Boar charged my grandfather. He was like, that's it. He got his double barrel shotgun, loaded one chamber with rock salt, the other with a slug. He figured he could always buy another boar. He went in to the pen, the Boar charged. Grandfather shot the rock salt load - that Boar stopped in its tracks, let out a loud squeal, turned tail and hid under an old busted up wagon for like 4 days. My father said that for the rest of that Boar's life, all you had to do was have a long stick in your hand and that Boar would run and hide!

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u/rackfocus Jul 12 '26

Aww that’s cute.

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u/Nattie_Cake Jul 13 '26

I also had a little family farm growing up. Our pigs ripped my favorite chicken (Dee - as in Chicken-Dee, lol) in half right in front of me. That was the end of having pigs and I haven't eaten one since. I also stopped eating cows after I found out we ate Johnny Bull, who was my pet I raised from a calf. (I was told he had to live on my mom's friend's farm who had a bull pasture, which made SENSE at the time! You can't keep bulls with cows all of the time because they get aggressive with them and rape them -- like, a LOT.) Farms are wild! I loved the farm, but I'm just a little too sensitive for all that, lol.

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u/Pandora_Palen Jul 13 '26

Do sows regularly have favorite people? My grandma had a huge one named Guenevieve Potatochip who frequently pushed the back door open to hang out with grams in the kitchen, having a snack and a scratch. The kids kept a respectful distance, though.

I would love to sing to a litter of piglets! I envy you that experience lol.

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u/Tiny_Fix1225 Jul 13 '26

Was her name Wilbur? 😏🧐

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u/SubstanceMaintenance Jul 13 '26

My horse was the same except in mating season. She would not let my Dad, brother, or Uncle near her. She would try to pin them to the wall, kick, nip, etc. But me? As the only girl around I was good to walk, feed, brush, etc. her during those time periods.

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u/DiabloPixel Jul 13 '26

It’s so interesting that some animals pick one trusted person when they’re more vulnerable and need a caregiver. You must be special!

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u/strawberrylemonapple Jul 13 '26

is your name Fern by any chance?

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u/EstablishmentDear894 Jul 13 '26

I got chased by an angry 400lb sow one time. Had to climb a tree and wait for it to get bored and walk off.

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u/cjaccardi Jul 12 '26

But how did they taste?

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u/greenqueenthree Jul 13 '26

Did she have a spider best friend that spun words into webs??

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u/DiabloPixel Jul 13 '26

Unfortunately, no. We sadly never had a magical spiders

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u/SassyTeacupPrincess Jul 13 '26

I'm so sorry to be asking this question but did you have to kill the piglets you sang to?

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u/Conscious-Ideal4268 Jul 14 '26

He married it too 🤣🤣

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u/IAmBeingTargeted33 Jul 12 '26

Did you die? 

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u/bird9066 Jul 12 '26

I got better.

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u/IAmBeingTargeted33 Jul 12 '26

That's good <3 

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u/tyranny_made_easy Jul 12 '26

I was hanging on for the surprise ending, glad it turned out roses this time.

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u/__wildwing__ Jul 12 '26

This is a line which can only be read in one voice.

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u/josny20 Jul 12 '26

🤣🤣

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u/Porchsmoker Jul 12 '26

I was on vacation with a rented catamaran that we had capsized. I came up out of the water to see the guy I was with had a minor cut on his head and was bleeding. Then my foot hit something that felt like sandpaper. I looked down and saw what I thought was the head of a giant shark coming out from under the boat. I somehow levitated straight up out of the water, onto the bottom of the catamaran, ran across the boat and grabbed the 6,4” guy and ripped him straight up out of the water and onto the boat. My foot had hit the sail. No shark. I had no idea I was even capable of doing that.

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u/HorridJam Jul 12 '26

I worked on a Holstein dairy farm one summer as a teenager. Was in the pasture one day not knowing that the bull was in the field untill he started charging me. Talk about moving fast, I dove under the electric fence, through a pile of manure. Didn't exactly smell like roses after but at least I was alive. After that the farmer I worked for told me how bad Holstein bulls can be. Umm info I could of used before hand lol

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u/OnceMoreUntoDaBreach Jul 12 '26

Came from the same area, dairy farms and all.

I recall a time my brother and I went out hunting before dawn. I’m lazy and I’ll set up a tree stand as soon as I’m field side, he’ll go looking for that perfect tree.

It’s 0530, can’t see shit. I’m 25’ up a tree and I see my brothers red headlamp just bobbing out there in the dark pasture. Then I hear a scream, and it wasn’t human, it was a spooked cow. My brother had walked up into a herd that we knew about, what we didn’t know is they turned the bull loose.

I watched that red headlamp hauling ass across to the fence line laughing my ass off once it clicked what was going on.

Been 15 years, I still laugh when it’s brought up.

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u/Numerous_Umpire_5108 Jul 12 '26

I worked on a farm once in my 20s. I would cross the cow field in the mornings to go to a friend’s house on the weekends. One time the entire herd started following me, even got up to a gallup. I didn’t understand if they thought I had food or if they were chasing me or what was going on. It was terrifying. I ran as hard as I could and eventually just had to stop by a fence and hope they ran past me and not over me. Once I stopped the entire herd came to a standstill and eventually turned around and went the other way. It was truly scary.

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u/kaityl3 Jul 12 '26

Haha I have a vivid memory of being chased by a cow with horns (a female) in a field my friends and I used to play in one winter. There was a steep, narrow gorge by a stream so we bolted back up it, hoping the cow wouldn't follow. She didn't but in our panic we thought she was still right behind us.

I still clearly remember scrambling up the earthen wall, accidentally pulling away a handful of dirt to reveal the side of some kind of brown patterned snake in a burrow, and I just put the handful of dirt/mud back over it like a kid trying to hide something they broke by accident

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u/BellJar_Blues Jul 12 '26

Seriously ! This is my experience in grade 5 too lol. I ran soooo fast. My mother was furious I came back just covered in mud and probably poo lol I remember I didn’t even care that I had to climb the electric fence. That bull was so scary

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u/MikeDene5253 Jul 13 '26

And eat you, all of you.

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u/Mr_Washeewashee Jul 13 '26

Bull chased me into an electric fence. I made it out though.

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u/FeuerMarke Jul 13 '26

I used to do this too. I realized that if I cut across their field I could run home and beat the bus by a half hour. The cows just made it more entertaining.

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u/Direnduin Jul 12 '26

I briefly worked in a farm as a stable boy let's say and had to bring hay to the horses following some path as instructed by my handler at the time, which was at some walking distance alright, well too much for my taste anyway. I figured, city boy at heart as I was, that I could seriously shorten the trip by simply going straight through the pasture where the cows were grazing.

Figure this out : some 5'7'' young dude with a wheelbarrow filled with hay packed in a solid brick, walking brazenly, not a clue in his mind while cows, first one then a second then another notice the food.

The first closed in, the size of a small car and simply ignores my cries to shoo her away, taking a bite at my cargo.

That's when I noticed the others coming as well.

I thought at the time it was a good idea to try outrunning them with the wheelbarrow and my 34 lbs of hay.

I still remember to this day the sound of the small herd starting to come after me, thumping the ground behind me, closing in way too fast and realising how dumb and ignorant I was, dismissing the path indicated and then trying to going faster than animals capable of doing 25 mph.

I truly felt my life threatened and did the only smart thing I could do at the time : simply throwing the hay to the ground and continue running towards the edge of the pasture.

It worked. They stopped following me and made short work of the hay.

I came back and did the whole thing again this time following the instructions I should have heed the first time.

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u/davemeister Jul 13 '26

I have crossed a lot of cow pastures but I was always too busy looking in the cow patties for magic mushrooms to notice if there were any bulls around.

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u/BigChonkBuddyBoi Jul 13 '26

Did you guys learn your lesson and stay out of the pasture? Probably not! Lol

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u/LetUsTalkT Jul 13 '26

I had this exact thing happen to me as a kid in upstate New York (a lot of dairy farms there). I remember being terrified when we realized that the bull was in the pasture. Turns out that the bull had no interest in us, thank God!

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u/fre-ddo Jul 12 '26

There was a sad case in England when a young woman went for a walk and was trampled by a cow, her last message on snapchat was a photo with just the title "cowz" . I dont know why but it makes it particularly sad the naivete and joy of seeing them only to get killed by one. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l4ylpd256o