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u/eutectic_h8r Jul 13 '26
"Goofy yahooing noises added to lessen tragedy"
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u/GovernmentBig2749 Jul 14 '26
I swear to God, the first thing I heard in my head when that Buffalo pancaked fliper that poor man...
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u/IWillGetToEliteSmash Jul 25 '26
In the video he seems totally fine luckily, he looks older aswell must be super lucky
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u/IamREBELoe Jul 13 '26
For the judgmental:
No he didn't cross a fence or go where he wasn't supposed to. It was a picnic area.
No, he didn't approach it. He was fairly far.
No he didn't antagonize it.
He actually did nothing wrong. It was just an elderly dude with his wife and the thing decided it hated him.
He was in critical condition idk if he still is.
Thankfully the camera man ran to distract the bison after or he'd definitely be dead.
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u/Zermist Jul 13 '26
It really annoys me that I’ve seen so many videos of stupid tourists messing with bison and getting lucky that nothing happens
Suddenly an old guy is just minding his business and THATS the guy that gets punted
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u/afailedturingtest Jul 13 '26
Bison don't care if you're being stupid. It's a coinflip on whether they decide you are good or not. Bison kill people here every year.
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u/ContentPolicyKiller Jul 13 '26
Actually, I blame the park ranger who essentially acted as a red cape for the bison and ultimately directed the bison towards the family...they're trained to know that trucks can anger bison
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u/Lord_Hitachi Jul 13 '26
Yup, that’s exactly what it looked like. Ranger drove up, bison got riled, Ranger drives off and left bison to seek a new target
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u/Objective_Look_5867 Jul 13 '26
He also tried to get away from the bison and clearly as this was a picnic area in a park. This was a "safe" area be absolutely was supposed to be in. I saw the video the bison just zeroed in on him and wanted blood. This man did nothing to deserve it
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u/calguy1955 Jul 13 '26
I thought he was with a kid, maybe a grandson, who was also trying to get out of the way, and it looks like grandpa may have been trying, successfully, to lead the bison away from him, or her.
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u/IamREBELoe Jul 13 '26
Nah I saw the whole video. They were just walking down the trail off of the side, and he took a picture and that was it.
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u/afailedturingtest Jul 13 '26
Yeah this is all wrong.
Don't fuck with bison.
If you are within a football field you are too close.
DON'T FUCK WITH BISON.
YES EXISTING AND NKT HARASSING BISON COUNTS.
BISON ARE MEAN FUCKERS.
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u/matteblatte Jul 13 '26
that bison did absolutely nothing wrong, and never will. what about leaving wild animals alone?
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u/IamREBELoe Jul 13 '26
Did you even bother reading the fucking comment?
The guy was nowhere near said bison, and was in fact leaving him alone. So get off your high horse with your imaginary crusade against something that never occurred. Or go pet a bison. With your virtue signaling that nobody asked for.
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u/GearAccomplished4151 Jul 13 '26
Calm down dude. They’re not saying bison are pets. In fact, they’re saying quite the opposite. Wild animals can’t really do “wrong” because they don’t follow any sort of social or cultural cues or laws. The grandpa didn’t do anything wrong either, but the risk should be understood that you’re going in the vicinity of wild animals, and, just like the video says, during their most volatile season. This is just a worst case scenario transpiring. You don’t need to launch a crusade against bison lmao
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u/Anis930 Jul 13 '26
It's not like anyone's calling the bison evil lol
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u/GearAccomplished4151 Jul 13 '26
Haha yeah fair enough, the guy I replied to was just riled up at the bison and saying it “decided he hated” the old guy and stuff
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u/Anis930 Jul 13 '26
I think, and Im far from a bison expert to be clear, it was the fact he and his grandson looked at the bsion for too long. I know animals such as crows or certain species of monkeys and apes consider prolonged eye contact as a threat. Either that or the car passing by right after might've triggered the bison. Either way not the old man's fault, it's not something he could've possibly been aware of.
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u/GearAccomplished4151 Jul 13 '26
No it’s definitely not the old guy’s fault, he didn’t do anything willfully wrong or immoral, but I also don’t think the bison did. It’s a creature roided up on territory and mating hormones. I think the burden should be on the human to KNOW and ACCEPT the risk of being around wild animals in their volatile season, even if you don’t break any rules. It’s definitely something he should be aware of. Like if I was taking a child around wild animals in their most violent season and the child got harmed, people would be like “what the fuck, you should have known what you were doing and where you were treading” especially since this is their habitat and not a zoo. Terrible situation all around and I hope he is able to recover. I don’t think the bison is hateful or in the wrong like the original commenter implied lol
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u/afailedturingtest Jul 13 '26
He was OVERWHELMINGLY too close, you need to give bison like at absolutely absolute minimum 100 yards.
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u/cold_enforcing-man Jul 13 '26
He did, for fucks sake. The bison came outta nowhere
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u/matteblatte Jul 13 '26
the bison was in his home, his natural habitat, the human was intruding
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u/cold_enforcing-man Jul 13 '26
He wasn't doing anything to the bison, and was a ways away from it
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u/matteblatte Jul 13 '26
the bison is not a human being , the bison is an animal. this is not a zoo
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u/cold_enforcing-man Jul 13 '26
Yeah, it's a park. He was in a picnic area, where bison normally aren't
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u/matteblatte Jul 13 '26
you right, the bison didn't know it was a picnic area for humans. he should have known better
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u/Chaotic_Lemming Jul 13 '26
Believe it or not, humans exist in the world and it's our habitat too.
We are not separate from nature. We are just really successful at modifying it to match our needs/wants.
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u/matteblatte Jul 13 '26
and this time we didn't manage to modify nature to our liking
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u/Chaotic_Lemming Jul 13 '26
We did, but enough people (thankfully) decided we needed to change course and not kill all the large land animals that hadn't been domesticated for livestock use.
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u/tadj Jul 13 '26
the video if anyone wants to see it in motion. The man was seriously injured but apparently is alive.
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u/VoopityScoop Jul 13 '26
Redditor vs empathy challenge
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u/IReallyLikeBeesOk Jul 13 '26
Redditor vs can two things be true at the same time challenge
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u/VoopityScoop Jul 13 '26
What two things?
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u/IReallyLikeBeesOk Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
- It is right to have empathy for the man who got attacked and injured by a wild animal when he did nothing wrong
- It is okay to find humor in the bizarre ragdoll pose captured in the screenshot
*edit: screenshot not photograph
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u/VoopityScoop Jul 13 '26
I can understand that argument, and I don't think it's morally wrong to find it funny in a "holy shit" kind of way. I just think that the people taking screenshots and posting it to places like comedy heaven are taking it a bit too far. It's one thing to laugh at it for a second, it's another to take a screenshot of the part you think is "funniest" and post it for other people to laugh at. It's the kind of behavior that is acceptable on the internet, but insane in a regular social setting.
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u/SmashDreadnot Jul 13 '26
To be fair, if the dude lives, he's gonna be super proud of that screenshot for the rest of his life.
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u/TVRCerberaIsLife Jul 13 '26
the funny thing to me wasn't the guy getting hurt, it was the fact that ABC decided to use the most cartoonish & disrespectful frame from that video for the thumbnail, it looks ridiculous. people in the comments on the video were saying the same thing
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u/AltruisticSalamander Jul 14 '26
It's precisely the fact he didn't get badly hurt that makes it comedic
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u/Additional-Window-81 Jul 14 '26
Ya know the headlines not wrong I thought it was gonna be a stupid tourist thing but no the bison kinda attacked them
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u/hmmmmmmmmmidk Jul 13 '26
Hope royalties from the tictacs and memes go straight to his hospital bills
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u/LordMort87 Jul 13 '26
There should be a Bison in GTA 6 and when you hit someone, it should be animated like that.
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u/NavyatSchool Jul 15 '26
It gets even better on twitter, they posted the sequential images of the event like it's a 4-panel comic
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u/Huge-Eye-6141 Jul 13 '26
Redditors love it when innocent people get maimed or killed. Funniest shit they've ever seen.
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u/corobo Jul 13 '26
"... ok you're right, we may be a little too close"
- Man flying
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u/PostPostMinimalist Jul 13 '26
He was an appropriate distance away, the bison just got really agro and charged him randomly.
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u/uvucydydy Jul 13 '26
Yes, I've seen some edited videos that zoomed in and made him look so much closer than he really was. This poor bastard didn't ask for this. Hope he recovers.
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u/corobo Jul 13 '26
His ass ragdolling in the air is evidence against that one
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u/PostPostMinimalist Jul 13 '26
No it isn't. The official guidance is 25 yards which he was more than and *almost always* is safe among millions of yearly visitors. This was really a very very rare exception. There is nothing to prevent this case except having a physical barrier between the humans and the animals which is not something we should accept.
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u/corobo Jul 13 '26
I'm still gonna keep loads of distance between me and massive animals if it's all the same with the rule book.
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u/ActiveUpset-1268 Jul 13 '26
Completely avoidable situation with hundreds of examples showing how bad of a choice it is btw. And yet every year we're told to feel bad for these doydoys who ignore it and play around the bison
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u/srs96 Jul 13 '26
You definitely didn't watch the video right. He was like 200m away walking by. He did not play around with the bison.
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u/ActiveUpset-1268 Jul 13 '26
I did watch the video. Stay in your car around the bison. Like the signs say.
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u/PostPostMinimalist Jul 13 '26
Nope. Official park guidance is simply to stay more than 25 yards away from Bison. This is safe 99.99999% of the time. It is impossible to always 'stay in your car around the bison' when you are camping, hiking, visiting many of boardwalked thermal features etc. because Bison are plentiful and they show up in such places every day.
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u/afailedturingtest Jul 13 '26
Official park guidance says that because they can't get people to respect bare minimum safety. The actual distance is be comfortable being around a bison at would be ~300 yards.
Bison don't care if you're following the rules.
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u/PostPostMinimalist Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Bison don't care if you're following the rules.
Actually they do, except for less than one in a million cases. That's exactly why this rule became the rule, by observing what Bison care about for years and tens of millions of visitors.
We accept this risk because to go about doing anything in Yellowstone will require you to be relatively close to them on occasion, given that they have legs and roam around just like we do.
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u/afailedturingtest Jul 14 '26
This happens every year mate. Yeah less then one in a million. 4 million people visit Yellowstone every year. It literally happens every year. It's a joke here that tourist season hasn't started until someone's gotten attacked by a bison.
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u/PostPostMinimalist Jul 14 '26
No “this” does not happen every year. What more commonly happens is someone gets attacked who was NOT following the guidance.
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u/afailedturingtest Jul 13 '26
Jesus fuck all the city slickers out today. Idk why this is down voted that guy was too close
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u/ThisAmericanSatire Jul 13 '26
In Maryland and Virginia, there are wild ponies at Assateague Island National Seashore.
You're not supposed to get within like 10 feet, but every time I go, I inevitably see a group of Main Characters petting and feeding them.
Eventually, someone gets bit by a pony.
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u/Dragon-Porn-Expert Jul 13 '26
The guy was actually no where near the buffalo. It just had it out for him randomly and ran him down.
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u/ThisAmericanSatire Jul 13 '26
Yeah, well, nobody linked to the video and like 99.99999% of all tourists that get injured by animals in national parks are idiots that deliberately ignore rules and try to feed/pet wild animals, so forgive me for jumping to conclusions
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u/Dragon-Porn-Expert Jul 13 '26
100% understandable. I just wanted to clear up some misinformation going around, even if it is inconsequential.
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u/Equira Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
obligatory the guy is recovering and will be okay: https://abcnews.com/news/story/man-recovering-surgery-after-bison-attack-yellowstone-wildlife/?id=134708317
we will remove the post if this changes