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‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yellows
« on: July 24, 2019, 02:08:55 pm »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/24/bison-charges-flips-year-old-yellowstone-national-park-video/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d7f484dbde67


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In a matter of seconds, the powerful animal had reached the child, who was trying in vain to outrun it. With a swift toss of its head, the charging bison catapulted the girl high into the sky like a rag doll, flipping her head over heels before gravity sent her tumbling to the ground.

The alarming scene was captured in a 12-second video that was first shared to Twitter on Monday and has since gone viral, serving as the latest reminder of the danger that can arise when people venture too close to wild animals. Before the original clip was deleted early Wednesday, it had racked up more than 4 million views and roughly 38,000 retweets.

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“According to witnesses, a group of approximately 50 people were within 5-10 feet of the bison for at least 20 minutes before eventually causing the bison to charge the group,” the National Park Service said in a news release. In the video, two other people could be seen fleeing from the bison before it struck the girl.

Every last one of these Darwin award aspirants should have been cited, and parents should be counseled/questioned by Child Protective Services.

What part of "wild" in "wild animals" do these people not understand?
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2019, 03:00:15 pm »
Whew!

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The girl was taken to the Old Faithful Lodge by her family where she was assessed and treated by a park emergency medical providers, and later taken to and released from the Old Faithful Clinic.

And, here's a few other links if you don't want to give clicks to WaPo.

 Angry one-ton bison attacks girl, 9, and tosses her 10ft in the air as ...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9571272/angry-bison-attacks-girl-family-yellowstone/
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7 hours ago ... This video is either unavailable or not supported in this browser ... The nine-year-old is then thrown ten feet into the air and left. 4 ... "Stay 75ft away from all large animals - bison, elk, bighorn sheep, deer, moose, ... Last year a 59-year-old woman was hospitalised after she was gored by a charging bison in ...
Yellowstone bison tosses 9-year-old girl into air ... - Google News
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqfQgKIndDQklTVXpvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NrWUtFUWpMbk02S2pvQU1FZXY4VUw1Wnl5bTBFakZaWld4c2IzZHpkRzl1WlNCaWFYTnZiaUIwYjNOelpYTWdPUzE1WldGeUxXOXNaQ0JuYVhKc0lHbHVkRzhnWVdseUtBQVAB
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Read full articles from Yellowstone bison tosses 9-year-old girl into air and explore ... A 9-year-old girl was injured after a bison in Yellowstone charged her ... Graphic Video Shows Bison Throwing Girl Near Old Faithful .... Recent bison attack at Yellowstone National Park serves as reminder to never approach wild animals.
Parents saved themselves and daughter got hit up by this bison smh ...
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A nine-year-old girl from Odessa, FL was charged and tossed into the ... Stay 25 yards (23 m) away from all large animals - bison, elk, .... A facebook friend posted this video and someone commented
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2019, 03:05:18 pm »
Stupid suburbanite townies always seem to have a Disney notion of the wild kingdom, and think they can recover their inner hippie by attempting to be one with nature.

It's amazing this stuff doesn't happen more often. I feel sorry for that little girl.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2019, 03:18:45 pm »
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2019, 03:38:04 pm »
A number of years ago some French tourist thought it would be a scream to go up to a buffalo and lean against it while a friend took a picture.
After realizing some idiot was leaning on him or her, the animal turned around, charged the moron, and gored/stomped him to death.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2019, 03:42:04 pm »
Quote from: goatprairie on July 24, 2019, 03:38:04 pm
A number of years ago some French tourist thought it would be a scream to go up to a buffalo and lean against it while a friend took a picture.
After realizing some idiot was leaning on him or her, the animal turned around, charged the moron, and gored/stomped him to death.

Hopefully the friend got some good pictures to share to help educate the city folks.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2019, 04:23:48 pm »
Quote from: thackney on July 24, 2019, 03:42:04 pm
Hopefully the friend got some good pictures to share to help educate the city folks.
I've been through Yellowstone numerous times and other parks where the buffalo roam. Held hostage several times while large herds walked around our car.
I can't say I've seen idiots get too close to these huge creatures. You'd think anybody seeing them up close would get just a little apprehensive about getting too near.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2019, 04:30:52 pm »
I blame this on Disney and their cartoon donkeys with Eddie Murphy voices.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2019, 04:33:49 pm »
Quote from: goatprairie on July 24, 2019, 04:23:48 pm
I've been through Yellowstone numerous times and other parks where the buffalo roam. Held hostage several times while large herds walked around our car.
I can't say I've seen idiots get too close to these huge creatures. You'd think anybody seeing them up close would get just a little apprehensive about getting too near.

In a wildlife drive-through park we had a bison attack our Explorer, and continued to chase us down for a distance.  Fortunately we were driving my Father-in-Law's vehicle.  The dent was a topic of discussion for years.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2019, 05:16:36 pm »
"Bison" means 1,500 to 2,000 lbs of 6 foot tall mass of muscle, hooves and unfriendly attitude.... armed with horns.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #10 on: July 24, 2019, 05:27:57 pm »
Quote from: thackney on July 24, 2019, 03:42:04 pm
Hopefully the friend got some good pictures to share to help educate the city folks.
I was on a ranch staking a well to drill with my trusty GPS unit within a herd of the ranchers buffaloes.  I assure you I gave them plenty of room.  They were relatively tame, but quite fast.  One never knows what a wild animal will do....
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #11 on: July 24, 2019, 06:34:09 pm »
Quote from: mrpotatohead on July 24, 2019, 05:27:57 pm
I was on a ranch staking a well to drill with my trusty GPS unit within a herd of the ranchers buffaloes.  I assure you I gave them plenty of room.  They were relatively tame, but quite fast.  One never knows what a wild animal will do....

Even a not so wild one.  I have a longhorn cow that I had hand fed cubes.  She turned psycho after she had a calf.  Dang near beat me death after two years of walking in the middle of the herd without issues.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #12 on: July 24, 2019, 06:52:49 pm »
Quote from: thackney on July 24, 2019, 06:34:09 pm
Even a not so wild one.  I have a longhorn cow that I had hand fed cubes.  She turned psycho after she had a calf.  Dang near beat me death after two years of walking in the middle of the herd without issues.

I can tell you of a number of friends and neighbors that have either been killed or injured by by supposedly domesticated cattle over the years.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2019, 06:13:41 am »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on July 24, 2019, 03:05:18 pm
Stupid suburbanite townies always seem to have a Disney notion of the wild kingdom, and think they can recover their inner hippie by attempting to be one with nature.

It's amazing this stuff doesn't happen more often. I feel sorry for that little girl.
She's lucky if she was treated and released. If that critter (and they tend to be ornery anyway) had really been mad it would have stomped her, and the outcome would have been worse, even fatal.

Why did no adult grab the kid? That says something to me.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2019, 11:17:31 am »
Parents don't keep a hand on their kids these days.  I've seen more than my share of parents letting their kids wander off.  Saw one step off a curb and out into traffic while his mother was yapping away on her cell phone.  Just saw an article where a mother was  printing out her boarding pass at a Spirit Airlines kiosk when her child wandered off, got onto a  baggage conveyor and ended  up in the baggage area behind the airline check-in.  People, please watch your kids, take them by the hand, put them in a stroller -- whatever -- but don't let them wander off.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #15 on: July 25, 2019, 11:24:12 am »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 24, 2019, 03:00:15 pm
Whew!

And, here's a few other links if you don't want to give clicks to WaPo.

 Angry one-ton bison attacks girl, 9, and tosses her 10ft in the air as ...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9571272/angry-bison-attacks-girl-family-yellowstone/
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7 hours ago ... This video is either unavailable or not supported in this browser ... The nine-year-old is then thrown ten feet into the air and left. 4 ... "Stay 75ft away from all large animals - bison, elk, bighorn sheep, deer, moose, ... Last year a 59-year-old woman was hospitalised after she was gored by a charging bison in ...
Yellowstone bison tosses 9-year-old girl into air ... - Google News
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqfQgKIndDQklTVXpvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NrWUtFUWpMbk02S2pvQU1FZXY4VUw1Wnl5bTBFakZaWld4c2IzZHpkRzl1WlNCaWFYTnZiaUIwYjNOelpYTWdPUzE1WldGeUxXOXNaQ0JuYVhKc0lHbHVkRzhnWVdseUtBQVAB
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Read full articles from Yellowstone bison tosses 9-year-old girl into air and explore ... A 9-year-old girl was injured after a bison in Yellowstone charged her ... Graphic Video Shows Bison Throwing Girl Near Old Faithful .... Recent bison attack at Yellowstone National Park serves as reminder to never approach wild animals.
Parents saved themselves and daughter got hit up by this bison smh ...
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A nine-year-old girl from Odessa, FL was charged and tossed into the ... Stay 25 yards (23 m) away from all large animals - bison, elk, .... A facebook friend posted this video and someone commented

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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #16 on: July 25, 2019, 12:30:26 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on July 25, 2019, 06:13:41 am
She's lucky if she was treated and released. If that critter (and they tend to be ornery anyway) had really been mad it would have stomped her, and the outcome would have been worse, even fatal.

Why did no adult grab the kid? That says something to me.


This is what disturbs me.  The parents did not exhibit any protective Instinct over their child. They fled with zero regard that their daughter was about to be trampled.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #17 on: July 25, 2019, 12:52:21 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on July 24, 2019, 06:52:49 pm
I can tell you of a number of friends and neighbors that have either been killed or injured by by supposedly domesticated cattle over the years.
A number of years ago I read an article in a newspaper about a guy who while a regular writer for the paper also had a hobby farm with a few cattle.
One day he was out in the pasture attending to a calf that seemed to be having issues. Mama cow took issue with the guy messing around with her offspring and knocked him a** over teakettle.
Mama cow was on a truck to the market the next day.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2019, 01:43:12 pm »
Another top recipient of the esteemed Darwin Award was caught on camera driving through a safari park.


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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2019, 01:51:43 pm »
Oh, that's horrible!  Tigers are very scary, serious animals. 
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #21 on: July 25, 2019, 02:25:32 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 25, 2019, 01:51:43 pm
Oh, that's horrible!  Tigers are very scary, serious animals.
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In the past, I lived in a gated community in the country, not town/city.  Our houses were around a lake and we had deer everywhere and they were protected in this community.  I lived in a house with no fence so deer came around all the time. I had a five pound female Yorkie I called "Baby'.  The woman next door had no fence and she had a male Yorkie.  We had an elevated walk way around the house and that was where Baby was outside - she was never on the ground where the deer were.

The woman next door let her male Yorkie out everyday in her non-fence yard.  The Yorkie loved to chase the deer, snap at their feet.  A deer protects his/her feet.  One day, a deer stomped the Yorkie to pieces.  The woman was very upset - I knew this was going to happen so it was hard for me to feel sorry for her.  After a period of time, she got another male Yorkie and let him out.  At that time, I had two houses and I went to the other house to live before this new Yorkie was killed by the deer.   We need pet police to take pets away if the owner is not capable of taking care of a pet.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #22 on: July 25, 2019, 02:30:28 pm »
Good point @Victoria33.  Even Bambi is a wild animal.  There are people attacked and even killed by Bambi pretty often.  Weird but true. 
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #23 on: July 25, 2019, 02:34:19 pm »
Quote from: goatprairie on July 25, 2019, 12:52:21 pm
A number of years ago I read an article in a newspaper about a guy who while a regular writer for the paper also had a hobby farm with a few cattle.
One day he was out in the pasture attending to a calf that seemed to be having issues. Mama cow took issue with the guy messing around with her offspring and knocked him a** over teakettle.
Mama cow was on a truck to the market the next day.

I am only waiting until the calf is old enough to ween.  I have her separated from the rest of the herd now.
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Re: ‘Never approach animals’: Video shows 9-year-old girl tossed in the air by charging bison at Yel
« Reply #24 on: July 25, 2019, 02:41:29 pm »
 A man was fatally attacked by a pet deer. His wife barely escaped.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/04/17/man-was-fatally-attacked-by-pet-deer-his-wife-barely-escaped/
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