Comments on: Woman survives attack by enraged buffalo

By: Mike Goad

Mike Goad — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:30:31 +0000

I wish more people had that kind of good sense. Unfortunately, there are a bunch of real dopes out there — and sometimes they seem to show up at the same places.

By: Rose

Rose — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:14:25 +0000

I sure wouldn’t be throwing things at it little lone getting out of my vehicle.

By: Mike Goad

Mike Goad — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:11:28 +0000

Where it’s really interesting is coming across these large animals when you’re on a trail, which happened to us twice three years ago when we were in northwest Wyoming — a buffalo at Old Faithful and a moose at Menor’s Ferry in the Tetons.

By: Barbara Swafford

Barbara Swafford — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:01:13 +0000

Hi Mike,

It’s been awhile since I was at Yellowstone, but I do remember all of the signs warning the visitors to stay in their cars. Just seeing signs like those were enough to make me take heed. Like you said, these animals are WILD, not caged up in a zoo.

By: Mike Goad

Mike Goad — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:31:30 +0000

When I was an 11 year old, I visited Yellowstone for the first time. It was 1963. There were bears all over the place, even in the campgrounds. The worst was when we saw, on an isolated stretch of road, a car pulled over, with the people inside feeding three bears — a mama grizzly and her two cubs.

So far as the drop off, I was thinking today of what some folks would think of the narrow mountain tracks we were on in the car, often with a steep drop off on one side or the other.

By: Cheerful Monk

Cheerful Monk — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:55:59 +0000

It reminds me of a story a ranger told years ago. A man was trying to push a bear into his car where his wife was sitting. The man wanted to take a picture of the wife with the bear. The ranger almost had a heart attack when he saw it.

Some friends of ours from NY drove out to one of the Western national parks years ago. When it got dark they pulled the car off the side of the road and slept. The next morning they were horrified that they were inches from a severe drop off and that there was no guard rail to protect them. They could easily have driven off the cliff in the dark. A Westerner would have known the danger but would no doubt be just a ignorant dealing with safety in big cities.

By: Rummuser

Rummuser — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:12:30 +0000

Mike, I entirely agree that it was due to people not following rules. The point that I was making is also the same. Collateral damage, which has now become a mantra of sorts, inevitably arises because some rule was not followed by someone somewhere. Just look at the oil spills. When the true story comes out, we will find that a number of rules have not been followed.

By: Mike Goad

Mike Goad — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:42:29 +0000

Most people aren’t even going to hear about it and, no matter how much it’s publicized, there will be people who ignore the rules, didn’t read them, or never heard of them. I read part of the way through “Death of Yellowstone” three years ago. I found it again a couple of weeks before we left on this trip, but didn’t get back to it. I do know that there has already been several deaths this year, though none by animal attack — just by falls from high places, drowning, and a suicide.

By: Cath Lawson

Cath Lawson — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:49:54 +0000

OMG Mike – She had a lucky escape. I hope this is a lesson to a lot of people – especially the idiot who threw the stick – they should be locked up. This story reminds me, I have Death in Yellowstone on my reading list – I need to remember to order it.

By: Mike Goad

Mike Goad — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:12:17 +0000

A fine example of people not following the rules. I’ll likely be doing a post about people not following the rules later in our trip, but, in this case, it got a person injured and could have gotten someone killed.

By: Rummuser

Rummuser — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:57:41 +0000

Classic case of ‘collateral damage’ Mike? Typical ……………….. shall I say more?