Stupid Tourist Tricks
What Ever Happened to Common Sense?

BY JUSTIN CASE

Ever wonder what it feels like getting flipped 20 feet in the air by a buffalo, then landing hard on the ground? Can’t be pleasant. And never mind the internal injuries from that horn in your belly, what about the humiliation when a relative sells a video of the incident to cable TV? You laugh, but it’s happened, and this summer a 12-year-old boy got thrown high in the air by a buffalo, as he and his family posed for a photo within a few feet of the animal.

It’s one of the things tourists do when they visit Yellowstone country. They get stupid, probably because their mammas never taught them common sense. They mistake the apparent lethargic nature of bison and their lumbering mass for gentleness. They’re like cows, they think, and they are—except quick, aggressive, and powerful enough to toss a human to treetop levels with a flick of the neck or horn (the cable TV video shows just that). READ MORE

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