On 16 September 2015 at 02:27, harry <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 September 2015 at 23:51, Bruce A. Metcalf <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > And the attitude I mentioned? The week before we arrived, some moron put > > her cell phone on a selfie stick and leaned up against a bison for a > photo. > > She does not have a photo. She does not have an unbroken cell phone. She > > does not have all her blood on the inside any more. > > > > Two weeks before that, a man with years of experience in the park went > off > > alone to look for bears. Not smart. He got between a cow and two cubs and > > was turned into bear food. > > > > I mean, what part of "wild animal" do these people not understand? > > > > This is unfortunately very common. Many years ago for a 4 month period I > worked as a manager of a rather dingy lakeside hotel in Kenya. During that > time - the hotel next door had an Australian woman who got bitten into two > pieces by a hippopotamus because she went too close to take a picture of > its baby. Another tourist got critically gored by a wild buffalo when he > decided to step out into the bush at night (to see the "nightlife"). I > think we have distanced ourselves so far from nature, that it seems > something benign out of a national geographic feature -- while reality is > these are wild and dangerous animals. > > On grizzly bears .. there is this really amazing documentary by Werner > Herzog "Grizzly Man" about this guy who went to live among the grizzlies > (much like Dian Fossey and the Gorillas...) and shot extensive footage of > himself and the grizzlies. Eventually him and his girlfriend got eaten by > the grizzlies on camera (luckily that footage is not shown in the > documentary) >
T he Darwin Awards chronicles are full of anecdotes like these. They have a section for 'At Risk Survivor' too. I wish the website was indexed by 'categories'
