"Bison injures woman posing for selfie at Yellowstone"

<p>So, the big question is: Did she get the shot?<br>

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bison-injures-woman-posing-for-selfie-at-yellowstone/ar-AAdlv0i?ocid=EIE9HP</p>

<p>Hope the bison wasn't hurt.</p>

She was practicing for Pamplona.

 

Cape Buffalos are of similar size and can be nasty and unforgiving.

 

 

<p>On the lower reaches of the web you will find lots of "Selfies taken immediately before the person was killed" galleries and in Russia a surviving selfies guide has been issued http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-33425805 <br>

So, it doesn't surprise me that yet another person has come a cropper.<br>

By the way, in the last 12 months I've noticed a major change in what the Italian street hawkers are selling. They still sell rubbish umbrellas or shades and the fake luggage is still there, but now they sell selfie sticks too.</p>

<p>I keep saying, bison just don't like compact cameras or phones. Its a quality thing with them. With a Hasselblad she'd have been fine, or maybe a Canon Dslr (so long as it was FF).</p>

<p>Seriously just a few years ago in Yellowstone I saw a Japanese tourist edging towards a bison- maybe 12 feet away- holding the hand of a child of about 2. Maybe trying for a quiet stroke for the boy? And I've seen someone in Canada walking towards a brown bear whilst looking at the animal through his viewfinder. It must be really difficult to tell the difference between a large wild animal and a petting zoo!</p>

Ever been near an aggressive bison. I hav. Luckily there was a fence. Unbelievably fast and powerful. I did not think the

fence would hold.

<p>If you're dumb enough to turn your back to a wild animal only a few feet away, you get what you deserve.</p>

<p>It used to be that most people were capable of consistently taking pictures without their stupid face in it. Now that skill seems to be a rarity.</p>

<p>I was out in California a while ago, and at several points ran into other tourists with selfie sticks. I thought this one was a good example: conspicuously missing from the shot at the left is the view at the right.</p><div></div>

<p>...as phone detaches itself from selfie stick, falls off cliff into ocean.</p>

<p>There are a lot of people with more camera than sense at Yellowstone. I remember someone with a Canon 100-400, zoomed all the way out, stalking a bison. He got as close as maybe 20 ft to get his photo. Maybe he was getting a close-up of its eye? Another person with a huge 500'ish lens (Nikon photographer) was maybe 30 ft from a bear. I think the point was (1) to show off expensive gear and/or feel good about owning it, and (2) to document one's own bravery/stupidity, staring danger in the face and laughing, so to speak. Or maybe the big lenses doubled as clubs, to be used for beating off the angry beasts.</p>

So many people travel in large part to have their picture in front of some famous place and to document for themselves and the world that they were there. Once it's done it's on to the next one, gotta keep moving!

<p>Many years ago, at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, hiking back towards where my car was parked, a grizzly strolled down the hill and sat down on the trail some fifty yards away from me - blocking my "exit". I am sure I was noticed but am glad the bear refrained from any closer investigation. I kept still, waiting - and eventually the bear got up and went the way it had come. I stormed down the trail - getting the hell out of Dodge - and met a group of juvenile hikers going the way I had come. I stopped and warned them of the bear I had just encountered - only to hear from one of the hikers addressing another: "cool, get the camera" after which they quickly progressed on their way. For the hiker's sake, I hope he didn't find the bear - I certainly didn't wait around to find out.</p>

 

See me at Yellowstone meadows ma.... See me and a real live bison.... See the bison getting closeup, ma just like Bessie on the farm. See me on my back looking shocked.... See me in the ER with my ribs taped. This is Instagram documentation of the Days of Our Lives. Yellowstone bears, when I worked on a crew in college summer, would come to cars to get snacks . Bears are smart, and unpredictable. Yellowstone bison are not so smart herd animals and always unpredictable. Moose as well I am told ..Uncooperative ungulates. Hate to invoke Darwin's Law but I wonder ..Rangers have a tougher job still. Protecting herds, predators, and' goofers.'

<p>Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the biggest fool of all?</p>

<p>Give 'em room and use the zoom! Some people go to Yellowstone and think they are in a safari park with semi-tame animals.</p>

<p>Funny... until one throws you into a tree like a ragdoll. <br />Video- <a href="

<p>While at Yellowstone I witnessed parents urging their pre-teen children to get closer to a pair of bear cubs. The children obliged. Mamma bear was close by, too.</p>

<p>The parents were pursuing a Darwin Award by proxy.</p>

<p>A late friend was a docent at Piedras Blancas with the elephant seals. At one time he saw a parent sitting a child on a large elephant seal. Fortunately everyone survived. An animal that size will squash you just by rolling over to see what's going on. Lord what mortals these fools be.</p>

<p>Remember the scene in Chevy Chase's "European Vacation" where they hand their video camera to a stranger to take their picture in front of a landmark? The stranger and camera disappeared, but the recorded video (intimate content) ended up on television.</p>

<p>I recall watching someone in the Smokies trying to coax a bear into their car for a photo op. On another occasion, a bear sat on the hood and bounced up and down while the two ladies inside screamed. (A black bear can peel a car door open like a ripe banana. Garbage cans in the park are made of 1/4" steel plate.)</p>

<p>I keep my distance from wild animals. If that doesn't work, I stay in the car. As a last resort, there's an ounce or two of lead at 1600 fps.</p>

<p>This might be the most expensive selfie attempt ever.<br /> $153,000.00 hospital bill after attempted selfie with rattlesnake, earlier this month. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/snake-bite-victim-153g-hospital-bill-article-1.2300979</p>

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<p>If you're dumb enough to turn your back to a wild animal only a few feet away, you get what you deserve.</p>

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<p>I guess I'm the only one or one of the very few here who's done some dumb things in my life and was lucky enough not to get hurt. Not quite sure what I deserved for being an imperfect human being.</p>

<p>In the 80's during my first visit to Y'stone. I recall reading about a German man that was badly injured, and his young son was killed while trying to pose the child atop a bison!<br>

At both Glacier NP and Y'stone, I've seen people approach rams, elk, mt goats, etc as if they were at a petting zoo, with predicable results. <br>

As comedian Ron White says, "you can't fix stupid".</p>

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<p>you can't fix stupid</p>

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<p>Or insensitive, apparently.</p>

<p>Anders "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the biggest fool of all?"</p>

<p>Doesn't quite work, Anders, because in the fairy tale the mirror surprisingly shows another that indeed is "fairer than the asker", according to the mirror the asker no longer the fairest. So in your adaptation, the mirror wouldn't reflect the asker any longer, would instead show a greater fool.</p>

<p>Had she "got the shot" it would in my opinion have gone viral and the OP would have contained that link instead of the Robert Graves AP photo, nice as it is.</p>

<p>Of course, there's metaphor in this a story broadly suggestive of our times, bison woman's behavior analogous to all of ours combined and along comes nature to offer what all should have known was coming, in doubt is with how much purchase and when.</p>

<p>"guess I'm the only one or one of the very few here who's done some dumb things in my life"</p>

<p>Its a about respect Fred this planet is not all about us...there are other life forms...unfortunately we think everything and anything is about us, Wild animals are just playthings which are there for our entrainment....</p>

<p>Poor folk are there for our exploitation along with animals or anything weaker than ourselves.... to be exploited .</p>

<p>Really that simple to understand Fred....we do a same old photograph... no need for a thousand words.</p>

<p>Ear your burger mate be happy and watch your telly.<br>

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