I don’t know how many times my fingers are going to have to hit these same keys…
When you’re at a national park, or anywhere there’s herds of 2,000 pound horned beasts roaming freely, please, for the love of all things good, keep your distance.
How many times do we have to see a person pinned to the ground or a child tossed through the air before we understand these are not pets or farm animals?
I completely understand the draw of wanting to see these creatures up close, I truly do, but you’ve got to use your brain and realize that you can get a full experience with bison by standing at least 25 yards away, which is the rule imposed by the National Park Service.
Well, let’s take a look at another example of tourists at their worst, shall we?
We don’t know exactly where this takes place, but the short video shows a group of children and their parents standing what looks to be 20 feet or less from a massive bison. Fortunately, he seems to be content, but things can change for seemingly no reason, especially when there’s kids involved, so you’ve got to blame the parents for this occurring in the first place.
While I can go on and on about the dangers of the situation, I couldn’t help but bust out laughing when the bison raised his tail and dropped an enormous, steaming pile of poop right on the sidewalk. Nothing gets a crowd of kids worked up like some poop and one of the dad’s hit us with a classic dad line.
“Thank you so much! Glad we finished lunch.”
Safe to say, this is going to be a core memory for those kids.
In all seriousness though, please don’t get that close to a wild bison. All it takes is one swoop of the head for things to turn tragic and it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Plus, you won’t have to smell the foulness that comes out of their backside, which seems like a big upside to me.
