Dallas says:

I see why sheeple tourists want to get close and have their children ride them for a photo op but there are plenty of signs.

Two yrs ago at Yellowstone I was shocked watching sheeple getting out of their car (with their young sheep) to photograph a black bear with 3 cubs crossing the highway – as rangers were shouting at them at a distance.

Hopefully this video gets played on Fox News and prevents a tragedy from happening in the future.

Winston says:

“That is why we have the second amendment. The right to arm bears!”

Yes, and I have a stuffed pair of bear arms hanging on the den wall… which I have a right to, dammit.

I’ve been to Yellowstone twice and both times there were two bison relatively close to the public trails winding through the upper terrace area of Mammoth Hot Springs. They really liked that location for some reason. I was alert and ready to run like hell if needed and most certainly didn’t mess with them or loiter anywhere near them.

The video of the incident was too crappy to make out enough detail, but someone either threw a dead branch at the bison or it was something that got caught up in its tail and was thrown into the air to hit the bison’s back.

yankinwaoz says:

Winston said “I was alert and ready to run like hell if needed”

Really? You think you can outrun a wild animal?

Buzz says:

There are too many people. We need to thin the herd.

New signs: Feed The Bears. Et cetera.

Sure, it will be dramatic and rough at first, but think about how rich all Americans will be when we pare this population down to, say, 100 million instead of 320. Everybody will be three times richer, and the number of cars on the freeway will be drastically less.

All we have to do is allow only those things that traditionally were designed to protect individuals from their own potentially fatal reciprocal actions.

Mr. Fusion says:

OK, so they were stupid and there are a lot of stupid people out there. It appears that everyone missed the stupidest part of the whole video.

The woman needs surgery on her knee and her insurance won’t cover it. The man doesn’t get to see the orthopedic surgeon until a week after the incident. While you can’t fix stupid, you can fix injured bodies. This is the treatment private insurance has given us yet for some reason some people think this is superior to a public option.

Ya ya, some wing nut will scream how public insurance would have him wait for hours, yada yada yada. American health insurance, the world’s envy.

canuck says:

1st – CBS sucks – bison and buffalo are NOT the same animal. Get your facts straight.

2nd – #12 – Lawyer? Sue? Seriously? Who’s going to sue who here? The idiots are going to try and sue a bison?

3rd – #29 – I am glad to be a Canadian – firstly because we have medicare that would cover ALL of those injuries, regardless of how stupid people are. Secondly – we are (most of us, anyway) aware of what “wild animal” means – keep the hell away from it! Don’t try to pet it, don’t try to hug it, don’t… don’t… JUST DON’T!

And let’s not forget about the Chinese kid that got mauled by a panda after he scaled a wall just because it looked “cute” and he wanted to give it a hug… sheesh….

Seriously, people?