Yellowstone National Park Visitor Caught On Camera Overtly Harassing A Bison, & Everyone Was Rooting For The Bison

Yellowstone National Park’s biggest idiot tourist award goes to…

Summertime means two things for the iconic Yellowstone property: thousands of visitors taking in the beautiful sights and sounds of the park, and a select few “bad apples” that get way too close to the wildlife that call Yellowstone National Park home. It really just comes down to people not reading signs and heeding warnings very well, because there’s also been a number of issues this year stemming from people walking on (or drinking out of) thermal pools.

It’s almost like there actually is a contest to be crowned “Yellowstone’s Dummy of the Year.”

Just to be clear, the National Park Service hands out no such award. Instead, the NPS advises tourists to stay 25 yards away from animals that are deemed “non-violent.” That list includes bison, elk, and other creatures that tend to be relatively docile – though docile is a relative term. When it comes to bears, wolves, and other apex predators, the NPS warns park goers to keep 100-yards between them and the animals.

I’m just brainstorming here, but maybe the National Park Service should just go ahead and stretch that number out to 100-yards for every animal, eh? We see far too many press releases from Yellowstone National Park explaining how a somehow unaware tourist dangerously approached a wild animal inside the park, then proceeded to pay the price… so maybe it’s time to stretch that buffer zone even farther back.

But that’s the tricky part. Some people just won’t respect the guidelines, and feel as though the rules don’t apply to them. This is actually a condition called “Main Character Syndrome,” and it’s a pesky condition that select individuals have a hard time shaking. There’s a good chance you know someone with MNS and understand exactly what I’m talking about.

It certainly appears as though the man in this viral clip thinks he’s a main character. He was seen provoking and harassing a bison within Yellowstone National Park, and the people that caught it all on camera (from a safe distance of course) couldn’t believe what they were seeing. The woman was more worried about the guy’s safety, uttering a shocked:

“Oh my gosh.

As for the guy who can be heard speaking somewhere behind the camera, he was excited to witness nature take its course. He wasn’t shocked as much as he was thrilled and judgmental:

“Here we go… you are such an idiot dude.”

Fortunately, the man who was harassing the bison was not injured or harmed. But he was, undoubtedly, an imbecile. As Ron White once said, “You can’t fix stupid,” and this guy who seemingly took his shoes off for his bison tango appears to be far past the fixing stage of stupidity.

Check it out:

Never seen someone be so stupid and so lucky at the same time.

As you might imagine, social media users that came across this clip didn’t offer up much sympathy for the bison harasser. They left comments like these below the video saying that they were rooting for the wild animal in this situation:

“My money is on the bison.”

“Was really hoping the bison was going to head punt his a** over the river, or at least into it

“Darwinism at its finest.”

“This is what the statement ‘thinning the herd’ means.”

“I hope the park rangers find this dude and slap a hefty fine on him!”

“Dude needs a free ‘air toss’ trip from the Bison.”

Speaking of “air toss trips” and fines, that guy could be subject to thousands of dollars in fines and even jail time if the National Park Service is able to track him down (and they usually can). The NPS says each violation can result in fines totaling upwards of $5,000 and jail sentences as long as six months.The post Yellowstone National Park Visitor Caught On Camera Overtly Harassing A Bison, & Everyone Was Rooting For The Bison first appeared on Whiskey Riff.