Don't let the buffalo stop you
I got tired driving to distant Yellowstone Park in Wyoming, USA, so when I finally got there, I was just plain tired. I got out of the car and started walking across the parking lot towards the Visitor's Center in a fatigued haze.

Just then, I noticed tourists reacting to some sort of inscrutable drama. They were all lined up on a wooden walkway and squinting into their cameras, and lifting them to their faces. I could feel the excitement building as they leaned forward against a railing. Transfixed by the sight, I looked over my shoulder and stared at them, but continued walking across the parking lot towards the Visitor's Center. After a few moments, I lost interest in their building excitement, turned around to face the direction I was walking, and stopped.

I was face-to-face with a bison. Close enough to kick it with my stubby legs. Unbeknownst to me, several bison were eating grass from the under the mottled shadows of the pine trees in the parking lot medians. The drama the tourists was watching was of some fool tourist walking purposefully, if distractedly, right into the face of one of them. A perfect picture!

Bloody bison gorings happen with some regularity at the park, usually as the result of summertime tourist harassment, but I caught this bison by surprise, since my approach had been so swift, direct, and inexplicable. We both blinked at each other, and I slowly backed away. A groan of disappointment rose from the tourists watching with bated breath. Such a spectacular picture, ruined.....

Bastards....
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Sat 25 Jul 2015, 0:07, 4 replies)

so you weren't attacked by a cow? Is this your story?

( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 25 Jul 2015, 0:28, closed)

To be fair, he told it in style.

(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Sat 25 Jul 2015, 0:46, closed)

This was so close
to actually being a story. phew.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Sat 25 Jul 2015, 9:18, closed)

I wonder...
..just how many injuries or deaths are caused by onlookers simply wanting to gain followers/likes on Faecebook/Instaknob/twatter et al?
(Anthony Burgess' Chocolate Orange, Sun 26 Jul 2015, 10:12, closed)