Seriously? Source? One would think there might be a bison rancher who would have taken it.
Itâs an update in the original article.
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âŚAnd this exemplifies the need to update our language continuously, so that we can have fresh, more emphatic terms to express the many wondrous facets of human stupidity.
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I donât think thatâs being fair. Especially not to the bison.
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I live near a big national park â I love to hike in before sunrise and catch it from a peak. Also, there are so many trailheads that the busses couldnât serve them efficiently. Maybe a mixed-access, like some parks allow - cars during off-hours and for backpackers, but only busses during peak hours without a permit.
But this is a totally separate thing than the idiot-tourist problem; even with busses, people will still trap squirrels in their bags and shove a camera in the face of an elk. Itâs not related to car access, and the solution to one should not be conflated with the solution to the other.
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Shit damn! That little cow looks like it need a haircut. Iâd have loaded it in my car too, and straight off to the barber shop.
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A friend of mine worked the antarctic cruise ships, he said almost every trip theyâd have someone trying to smuggle a penguin back on board the ship. Because penguins make great pets I guess?
I also like the stack of bones and skulls that decorate the exit of the Paris catacombs because people also try to steal those too.
People; a stupidly dangerous species!
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City folk sure are funny.
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You know who else was from another country? Hitler. So thereâs that.
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As a Sailor, I saw many of my comrades try to smuggle a âWomanâ on board, lonely out there on the SeasâŚ
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If you read the original East Idaho News story http://www.eastidahonews.com/2016/05/yellowstone-tourists-worried-bison-calf-is-cold-so-they-put-it-in-their-car/, the guy who took the photo and reported the idiots was the one from Victor.
OTOH, the perps were described as âfather-and-son tourists ⌠from another countryâ. Now somebodyâs going to say we need a wall to protect our American buffalo!
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Actually, Buffalo would be a great place to build a wall!
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Why? Thereâs no such thing as American buffalo. Although, we do have bison.
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A friend of mine worked the antarctic cruise ships, he said almost every trip theyâd have someone trying to smuggle a penguin back on board the ship. Because penguins make great pets I guess?
[/quote]Iâm almost tempted to say they should be forced to live with their decision - stick them with providing a good home for an antarctic-adapted aquatic waterfowl that isnât domesticated, let alone housebroken. All they need to do is set their house temperature to average about one degree celsius, provide a few thousand gallons of seawater at a similar temperature, and feed the bird its fairly expensive diet of raw fish (possibly living raw fish). And donât let them mistreat the bird nor renounce their decision âŚ
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What is it with Yellowstone?
Hereâs a story of I was there I was at the observation area for Old Faithful (because thatâs basically compulsory when you visit Yellowstone). If you havenât been there before, Iâll describe the observation area. Itâs a series of nice benches and places to stand that are a good 100 meters or so away from the actual geyser. Thereâs signs pretty much everywhere saying to not step any further than that area warning you that it can and has killed people and that itâs a delicate ecological area that shouldnât be disturbed.
Sooooo, what do we see? A group of chuckleheads walking right up to the god damn mouth of the geyser. They were of course soon accosted by several very cranky park rangers.
I talked to one of the park rangers after the indicent and he said that they were going to be ejected, given a substantial (multiple thousands of dollars) fine, and would have to appear before a federal magistrate.
My response? âGood.â
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Has anyone started an online petition to change the name of the city of Buffalo?
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Entitled dumbasses. At best theyâre just too stupid to have driverâs licenses because they canât recognize obvious features of the terrain (signs), and at worst theyâre entitled assholes who think the rules just donât apply to them.
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Indeed. I hope they learned an expensive and painful lesson about why you donât mess around in national park lands. If you get caught committing a crime, itâs a federal offense.
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In this case, itâs very much related. They put the calf in the (rental) car they were driving. Any number of possible car regulation schemes would have stopped this caper. We take our frakin shoes off to fly, you donât think we can submit to a little car taxation at a national park?
