That also happens on the coast in Monterey County, California.
“Think of it as evolution in action.”
Can’t say I wouldn’t have reacted in the same way. From the article, it sounds like the calf was struggling to cross a river and the man assisted it. I get why they don’t want people to interact with the animals, but I doubt I could have just watched it drown, even if there are personal consequences.
The calf wound up dead anyway.
And what if its mother had reacted violently?
“Stay the hell away from the buffalo” is not a restriction (however worded) that anyone not an expert in wild buffalo ought to be violating.
Yellowstone buffalo Yelloswtone buffalo buffalo buffalo Yellowstone humans.
An NPS spokesperson said “We had no choice but to put it down. It was really heavy.”
Decades ago I was camping at Assateague. A foal was wandering around, separated from its herd. Park policy is not to intervene ever with the herd. People kept approaching the rangers about the situation, but were told it was park policy.
Don’t know if it’s the same location but I read a detailed account of that happening to a young woman while her fiance watched helplessly. Their truck got stuck and she got out to push and ended up buried in this silt that turned cement hard when the water came in. The worst part about it is they had a rescue crew trying to dig her out before the water went over her head, and they gave her a plastic tube to breathe through once her head went under…I can’t even imagine the terror, but yeah she lost the tube and drowned.
At night when my thoughts turn dark, I wonder what it was like to die that way.
My Wife used to work animal control. Got a call one time that a horse was laying down and the other horses looked ‘Very Concerned’. I get it, but horses do lie down once in a while.
The Concerned horses is sort of funny though.
Apparently, they do have facial expressions.
To me, though, every horse just looks like it’s saying, “Huh?”
I think they’re all saying, “Try me.”
“Why the long face?”
You know why ponies are so quiet?
They’re a little horse.
Boy, do they ever, as well as lots of other body language. My late horse Nick had been abused by a previous owner, and just touching him in certain places would trigger an “I want to kill you” face. Over time with kindness and patience I got him mostly desensitized to being touched in those areas, but I could still evoke the rage face with the right light stimulus.
ETA: This in such a gentle, kind-mannered horse that little kids could ride him bareback with a halter and lead rope. What kind of stupid MFer could treat him so badly as to permanently impress that reaction upon him? Still makes me mad, decades later.
11-year-old calls the police because his father was threatening his mother. The police shot the boy, but released the father
From the article.
The boy was given a chest tube and placed on a ventilator at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He had a collapsed lung, fractured ribs and a lacerated liver because of the shooting, his mother said. He was released from the hospital Wednesday. CNN has reached out to the hospital.
He got sent home after five days? WTF?
I don’t have any jokes for that one. Poor kid.
In a sane world that cop would be charged with attempted murder and sitting in jail awaiting trial.
“Forget it, Jake, it’s C̶h̶i̶n̶a̶t̶o̶w̶n̶ Mississippi”.
Guy buys a bunch of “Trump Bucks”, apparently falls on hard times, takes the Trump bucks to the bank to exchange for USD, is shocked to find out that they are worthless.