NY Times: Technology Leads More Park Visitors Into Trouble.
”‘Watch Donald get gored,’ she said as her companion hustled toward a grazing one-ton beast for a closer shot with his own camera. Seconds later, as if on cue, the buffalo lowered its head, pawed the ground and charged, injuring, as it turns out, Ms. Hayes.” When I first visited Yellowstone in ‘73, I was watching an elk from a little too close. My sister yelled at me to step back, when an extremely overweight woman suddenly pushed to get by me to take a snap with her little film camera, and almost knocked me into the beast’s feet. The elk (with a towering rack of antlers) spared both of us, but it was damned close to ending badly.
The woman then waddled back to her vehicle (her husband never got out to look at anything), revved the engine, and took off to the next sightseeing spot on their whirlwind tour of the park.
I don’t think the tech is to blame, in other words. Stupidity goes down to the bone.
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