Posted on 05/09/2015 5:55:18 PM PDT by Darren McCarty
In a new video released by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, tourists at Yellowstone National Park learned the hard way why you should never approach a black bear sow with her cubs.
The video was shot Wednesday night on Highway 212, southeast of Gardiner.
FWP Information Officer Vivaca Crowser was driving home with a colleague that night after a meeting in Yellowstone when she saw what's known in Montana as a "bear jam."
Dozens of tourists were pulled off on the side of the road for a close-up look of the sow and her three cubs.
"People were just trying to inch closer to get a better view, to get a better picture," Crowser recalled. "And that's where they just really forgot about the caution and the respect for space that the bears needed in this case."
So the bear reminded them, charging at the tourists with her cubs following, sending the tourists scattering.
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How can people be so thick-skulled??? (Rhetorical question)
Looking at a few of them tourist’s those bears would be well fed for the entire Winter!!!
Once watched idiots in Yellowstone trying to get closer than 6 feet to a bull elk.
Them bears is sneaky. They sit there looking all forlorn so a tourist will get out of their car. Then they steal the car. It’s known as Bearjacking. They especially like Mustangs.
Then they go to McDonalds and order 300 milkshakes and one Apple pie.
Bunch of delinquent bears.
The Grizzlies steal Mercedes.
the title is just so racist.
That’s dumber than the guy who put deer urine on himself and got beaten up by a whitetail on video.
We almost saw a winner of the Darwin Award.
Must be Democrats. Please tell me there are no conservatives this damn stupid.
Hey stupid people, if the bear get you, they put it down.they don’t put the stupid people down.
I agree. Simply could not believe it.
Obamalovers
Will the black-on-white violence never stop?
A bear stole our lunch when we went to Yellowstone back when I was a kid. Some lady walked by our picnic table and just said ‘watch your food’. Next thing we knew there was this big old bear lumbering toward our table. Needless to say we got out of there quick, minus our lunch. Got it all on color film too. I think the footage is still around somewhere.
We are going to be in Yellowstone this summer. I have been there several times but my wife never has. I keep explaining to her about the park wildlife, the bearjams on the park roads and the brain dead tourists who attempt to treat them like pets. She’s in for a real show.
City people, liberal or conservative. Makes no difference. They think deer are Bambi, moose are Bullwinkle and bears are Yogi and Boo Boo.
“Dumbasses from the city”! LOL!!! The Bears are up here and if you are out and about you had better be keeping the old ears tuned and frequent 360 degree ‘look arounds’. For as big, and ‘lumbering’ looking, as some of them can get, they can actually move about and stalk quietly. They are incredible Animals!
But, but, those cubs are just so darn cute!
The wife and I were walking a trail at Lake Moomaw, and about 30 feet in front of us, a cub rolled across the trail. I told my wife to wait, and sure enough, momma bear goes across the trail. While we were waiting, a young couple (you know the type-kerchiefs tied as sweat bands and all the other REI matched clothing) with an unleashed black lab mix came up from the other direction. I yelled at them to leash their dog, and they just looked at me like I was trying to impose my old, white values on them.
That’s when the momma bear crossed the trail, and their dog took off after the bear. The young woman suddenly realized the possibilities and whined at me for advice. I just told her it was a good idea to leash her dog in bear country. Then I looked at her and said if she was lucky, she’ll be able to locate her dog by the yelps and whimpers.
Then Mrs. VanShuyten and I left.
Thievin’ is just in a bear’s nature, he can’t help it. There’s only one way to stop a live bear from theft- amputation.
That’s why the Wyoming and Montana delegates to the Constitutional Convention insisted upon the Second Amendment.
Heck, there wouldn’t be nothing left west of the Missisippi if they hadn’t.
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