Comment Card Scolds National Park For Failing To Train Bears Better

[marmar]

from HuffPost:



For some people, the problem with the great outdoors is ... it's outdoors.

Take this visitor to Yellowstone National Park, for instance, who failed to see any bears and recommended lodge employees train them better. The unidentified guest left a comment card at the front desk of the hotel, requesting that staffers "please train your bears to be where guests can see them."

A photo of the card was shared Wednesday on Reddit:



The comment card further scolds, "This was an expensive trip to not get to see bears."

A spokesperson for Xanterra Parks & Resorts, the company that manages Yellowstone's lodges, couldn't speak to the authenticity of the comment card. However, a spokeswoman from the Yellowstone National Park Public Affairs Office did confirm to The Huffington Post that these types of comment cards are available in the park. Judging from some of the one-star ratings the national park has received, it's not too much of a stretch to think it's real. .................(more)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yellowstone-national-park-train-bears_55df2bdae4b0e7117ba902b8?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

[brewens]

1. Dumbass! Anyone knows to a bring picnic basket to call them in. LOL n/t

[cbdo2007]

2. the comment is obviously a great troll....

cant believe people actually take things like this seriously...but then i guess if they didnt then trolling them wouldn't be so much fun, lol

[marmar]

3. You'd be shocked tho......

My young cousin worked one summer in the information office at Cedar Point, an amusement park on Lake Erie in Sandusky, Ohio, and she said one of the questions they'd get fairly regularly from callers was, "Is the lake still there?" Never misunderestimate Amurkans.

[Mendocino]

14. I worked at Cedar Point

two summers 76&77. I know exactly what you mean.

As for Yellowstone, when I was there way back in 64, and bear/human interactions were far more common, some people actually put maple syrup on their children's hands so they could get cute pictures of the bears licking it off. I kid you not.

[hifiguy]

17. I assume a lot of those kids were nicknamed

"Lefty" after that stunt.

[Worried senior]

4. I saw a video

of a woman that called to complain about deer crossing signs.

Some people just don't get it.

[Snobblevitch]

15. If it's the youtube video I saw, it was a radio bit. It was not real.

[malthaussen]

6. Boy, do you have a high opinion of your fellow man.

I guess it is preferable in some ways to think someone is trolling rather than simply abysmally ignorant.

But I remember reading an excerpt from Bill Bryson's book about hiking the Appalachian Trail in which he relates how he and his buddy set up camp next to a watering hole one evening, and thought it was totally appropriate and sensible to chuck rocks at a bear when she came down to drink -- to chase her off. Fortunately for them, she wasn't in a grumpy mood, but it goes to show that there are people out there who truly believe the world is disposed for their convenience.

-- Mal

[Glassunion]

19. Slow down there buddy. Do yourself a favor and think for just one second.

Take all of your life experience. Take every person you've known, been acquainted with, been introduced to, or just seen on the street. Basically every human you've ever seen.

Then think about how stupid the average one of those is. Then realize that 1/2 of them are stupider than that.

I've met the general public. This is not beyond them.

[seabeyond]

5. the bears in the national park i stayed in were excellent. they learned to open cooler, grab beer

and coke, open and drink and eat the fish that we caught.

our trained bears kicked ass.

[malthaussen]

7. Trained bears were better in the old days, yeah.

It must have come from having Yogi as a role model. Bears today just don't have the advantages bears did when we were young.

-- Mal

[pinboy3niner]

16. NBC News: Bear downs 36 beers, passes out at campground

Bear downs 36 beers, passes out at campground

BAKER LAKE, Wash. — When state Fish and Wildlife agents recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn of Baker Lake Resort, there were some clues scattered nearby — dozens of empty cans of Rainier Beer.

The bear apparently got into campers’ coolers and used his claws and teeth to puncture the cans. And not just any cans.

“He drank the Rainier and wouldn’t drink the Busch beer,” said Lisa Broxson, bookkeeper at the campground and cabins resort east of Mount Baker.

Fish and Wildlife enforcement Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear did try one can of Busch, but ignored the rest. The beast then consumed about 36 cans of Rainier. ...............(more)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026990392

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[hifiguy]

18. That really does belong in the DU Hall of Fame.

It will NEVER not be funny as hell.

[Glassunion]

21. He would have gotten better service if he was a polar bear.

[Liberal Veteran]

8. Yellowstone needs to train Old Faithful to stop being such a tease.

I got such a delight out of Old Faithful and watching the people around it. It would bubble a little and everyone would pick up their cameras and start shooting pics or video and then it would settle down and everyone would looks like "Was that it?" start milling about and then it would do the same thing every few minutes and everyone would do the same thing over and over until it finally erupted.

It was funny as hell to watch.

[exboyfil]

9. Reminds of the idiots trying to take selfies

with bears. Those pictures showed up earlier this year.

[Glassunion]

22. I thought it was bison. There were several incidents of folks getting injured by them.

[Laffy Kat]

10. We heard a ranger talk up in the Rocky Mountains once...

One of the questions he got was, "At what elevation do deer become elk?"

[Brother Buzz]

11. Silly tourists, you got to go out and find them, just like Bob and Jim

[Xolodno]

12. I have visted a lot of National Parks....

....Never underestimate the force of stupid in some people. From someone to walking down a trail in heels to another thinking they could hike six miles, up 2500 feet with only a small bottle of water...oh and dusk was just a few hours away.

[Generic Other]

13. This is how it's supposed to be!

[Eleanors38]

20. Go to a nearby hunting land and find an elk gut pile. Works everytime.

[Glassunion]

23. Wife and I saw a bear on our last trip to Yellowstone.

He was at the bottom of a ravine, at least a mile away. They were just coming out of hibernation. That was more than close enough. Got plenty of photos of the bear digging up a carcass (hiker?) from the prior year.

Plenty of elk photos. No moose. My wife really wanted to see a moose. We should have complained to management.