This guy is not the smartest creature in the river.
The National Park Service wants to fine him.
Apparently the government owns nature and they have control over what you can and can’t do in said nature.
The man was part of a group of three people who NPS said entered a closed area of Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska earlier this month. Explore.org’s popular Bear Cam captured the man as he waded into water knee-deep while five bears fed in the river nearby. After snapping his selfie, the man remained in the river for approximately 90 more seconds, taking photos and observing the bears before he returned to the shore.
Visitors must stay more than 50 yards away from a bear using a “concentrated food source,” according to park regulations. Disruptions in feeding could impact the bears’ ability to survive through the winter and could also lead to an altercation, park officials said.
Roger that.
ht/ jd hasty
He’s as dumb as the idiots who went biking in WTFistan, and got killed by ISIS.
On one of the outhouses at the National Bison Range just outside of Dixon, Mt. there is this sign to be aware of grizzly bears and black bears as they’ve been spotted roaming the area and to stay close to your vehicle as possible. I may have to rethink where I stop to take a nap if this is the case. I can pee elsewhere just to be safe from now on.
“Apparently the government owns nature and they have control over what you can and can’t do in said nature.”
Considering the disruption it could cause to the natural development of the bears’ ability to survive, and, should the bears have attacked him, the costs of recovering his remains, storing them, and shipping them to a funeral home, all of which would most likely be charged to the National Parks Service, a fine is an excellent means of discouraging potential Darwin Awards recipients from screwing around with dangerous wild life.
People can’t seem to resist tempting the fates. Tim Treadwell was one who thought he had a deep understanding of bears and discovered the hard way he was a few lessons short.
When Vanity and Narcissism become condiments for a Bear sammich.
I’ve had a low opinion of the National Park Service since their bad behavior and barrycades during the government shutdown. They showed what good little fascists they could be if called upon. Next thing you know, they’ll request $100,000,000 for a vast network of cameras throughout their fiefdoms, to track your every move in their forest.
Not condoning what the idiot did with the bears, but jeez, can’t a guy be oblivious in oblivion anymore without Big Brother peeping? And there’s probably a couple acres of undisturbed cartel pot fields just around the bend from the bears.
We have that cam bookmarked at work.
I’d loved to see him get “et”.
That’s funny.
Ya just can’t fix stupid. That statement fits both the National Park service and this future Darwin candidate. Hasn’t this clown ever heard of telephoto lenses?
Hey Boo Boo, that’s one big picnic basket.
Taking a selfie so close to these guys is incredibly dangerous. This time of year, male bears are fighting for the best feeding spots and mothers still have (older) cubs in tow (usually on the banks, waiting for their turn on the river). You wouldn’t see them until they were a fur blur charging you. He was lucky this time.
Did he have a right to do what he did? Yes, but like a lot of people these days, he didn’t take any responsibility for what could have been a very sad outcome — for himself, the bears, or future park visitors who would probably be banned from even safe viewing. The Nat’l Park Service does a pretty good job in the west of keeping things as they are. Then someone decides to take a swim in a thermal pool, a selfie on a delicate rock outcrop or at the rim of the Grand Canyon, or harass a buffalo or elk. Someone gets killed and then there’s an outcry for walls, fences, signs, more officers. People try to turn the parks into zoos all because some selfish ass doesn’t think.
Did anyone report the missing pic-i-nic baskets?
Will MJA’s picnic table be vacant today?
What AbigailAdams said.
TRF
*picks teefs*
Tourists are harder to peel and have the wrong kind of fat.
“Let me take a selfie” has replaced “hold my beer” as the preferred prelude to a stupid act.
I have a healthy respect for wildlife. My younger sister was born in Yellowstone Park. We lived in Gardiner, my mother worked at the Gateway Hospital. I think it is called the Mammoth Clinic now. Mom says that when I was a toddler I used to like to hang out at the hospital and personally inspect the mauling and/or goring victims that were brought in. They used to have a couple/week when they allowed visitors to feed big game animals.
Wait, shouldn’t taxpayer money instead be used to pay bonuses to guys like him?
You know, reward ’em so they keep going back again and again. Until they are converted into bear poo.
Thin out the human herd, helping them to auto-eliminate themselves from the low end of the IQ bell curve thereby shifting the whole bell curve toward the higher IQ end. And by so doing increase the average IQ of the human race. Then hope we do the right thing with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=CVS1UfCfxlU
Ah yes, the good old kick the grizzly bear in the nuts trick just so you can get the salmon away from the grizzly bear. If anything that would only piss Mr. Grizzly off even more. I would hope he has a big caliber gun with him like a 45 caliber or bigger to put down that bear.