Back in 1990, we had the holiday of a lifetime during which we
visited Yellowstone. I was quite dismayed to see some tourists
feeding a bear cub on the side of the road... inculcating the wrong
lessons in the little thing to make it a danger to the public, and
itself, later in life.
You see, _I_ listened to the Park Rangers in their briefings (smug tone :>)).
By the way, I saw Pearl Harbour on video for the first time. As a
romantic video show it was pretty contrived, as a description of a
period of history it was pretty awful. The idea that dogfights
happened between hangars is just preposterous- quite apart from the
detail of all those torpedo bombers wandering around the land looking
for a place to drop them.
... but I must look up more information about the Doolittle Raiders;
that looked like a story to warm the cockles of the heart, even if
the film managed to stretch credibility to the limit (e.g. girlfriend
managing to listen to the intercom or radio from some 4,000 miles
away)!
Grump complete ;-)
Chris
At 01:27 -0700 5/3/02, James N. McBride wrote:
John is right about the danger of bison. They kill or injure several people
each year in Yellowstone. There have been only a few people killed by
grizzly bears. Two years ago people were calmly watching Old Faithful erupt
when a bull bison charged down the boardwalk for no apparent reason. A
68-year-old man from Australia didn't hear all the commotion, didn't get out
of the way, and the bull hooked him in the thigh with a horn and tossed him
in the air. He lived but had an 8-inch gash in his leg and spent some time
in the hospital. People frequently stand next to a bison to have their
picture taken. One year a German and an Austrian were killed doing that, I
believe it was on the same day. I've watched people fly fishing right in the
middle of a herd of bison. The park rangers warn people about how dangerous
these critters can be but some just don't seem to care. About 40 years ago a
guy I worked with had his car tipped over by a bison.....he is still know as
"Buffalo Bob." He survived the death-march on Bataan and almost got killed
by a bison. Best to give them some space. /jim
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