KSL: YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Video shot by a tourist over the weekend in Yellowstone National Park is yet another recent example of why it’s important to keep a safe distance from wildlife.
Jody Tibbitts, a tour guide with Jackson Hole Wildlife Safaris, was showing a Florida family around the park when they noticed a woman with a camera inching closer and closer to an elk.
“She was practically stomping up to it,” Tibbitts tells EastIdahoNews.com. “Honestly I’d say she was probably 25 feet away from the elk as opposed to the 25 yards (mandated by Yellowstone National Park).”
Manny Perez, a man in the tour group, grabbed his cell phone and started recording as Tibbitts tried to warn the woman to stay back.
“Ma’am, ma’am, could you please?,” Tibbitts is heard in the background as the elk starts to charge.
The Immutable and Irrevocable Law of Unintended Consequences strikes (pun intended) again.
Stoopid SHOULD hurt.
OT, Active shooter UCLA. Great timing with all these damn gun bills.
A tour guide. Not a videographer.
Terrible tracking of the Elk.
Missed the ‘money’ shot!
Those damn Russian and French judges! That toss was clearly a 10!
Hard to tell if the woman was actually tossed, or just tripped while backing up. If the guy had been holding the cell phone correctly for video, we would know for sure.
😐
Elk – 1
Dummy – 0
izlamo delenda est …
Was there a Zapruder reference somewhere?
Vietvet
I read that she fell and the Elk stopped it’s advance on her.
(sshhhh. . .. be vewy vewy qwiet. . .. i’m hunting elk. . . . . hehehehehe)
We get a lot of stupid tourons (tourist-morons) doing the same thing with black bears, in the Great Smoky Mountains NP. Darwin Award candidiates ALL!
Contestant 1 – “I’ll take Retarded Fuck-ups for $1200, Alex.”
Alex – “It’s the most proper way to film a live event from a distance on your smart phone.”
Contestant 1 – “What is landscape?”
Alex – “Correct. It’s great when we have a non-retarded person in our line-up.”
Awww come on, let the tourists pet a bison. Natural Selection wants it that way.
I hunt elk. I once had a herd of about 40 elk walk past me and some of them were less than ten yards away while passing. I sat frozen and they never knew I was there. I knew not to spook them for fear of getting stomped to pieces. I did manage to get a 5×5 as they moved away at a safe distance with my M-1 Garand. Elk is delicious by the way.
My sister sometimes finds them in her yard. She does have some in her freezer also. 🙂
I have a pair of elkskin welding gloves … they don’t make me weld any better than cowhide, though …
izlamo delenda est …