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To: Stevefoder who wrote (441873)	8/21/2011 7:25:25 PM
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It's not just people they don't understand it's the world as a whole that's dangerous: People Are Dumb and I Don’t Like Them Home - by BigFurHat - August 21, 2011 - 10:09 America/New_York - 9 Comments There is a “wrongful death” suit pending against Olympic National Park after some guy was gored to death by a mountain goat. Why is the family suing? Nobody told them nature was so dangerous. I guess when you designate open land as a park it has to be swept clean of all danger, and electrified fences have to be erected. But then, of course, these dumb bastards would die while licking the fence while posing for a goofy pic. NYTimes - The fatal goring of a hiker last year by a rogue goat in Olympic National Park has not only changed the way we anthropomorphize these wild animals, but it’s prompted $10 million in wrongful-death claims by the victim’s family, and new warnings about the perils of nature. In Yosemite National Park, where 16 people have died in 2011 — almost three times the average for this time of year — park rangers have taken to telling people not to wear flip-flops while hiking the steep, slick Mist Trail, and not to swim in the killer currents above 317-foot Vernal Fall. Angie Wang Plenty of people have, in fact, defied the obvious and commonsensical — and paid for it with their lives. Three of this summer’s Yosemite deaths came when hikers went around a guardrail with a warning sign and waded into water that swiftly carried them over a cliff. My experience, purely anecdotal, is that the more rangers try to bring the nanny state to public lands, the more careless, and dependent, people become. There will always be steep cliffs, deep water, and ornery and unpredictable animals in that messy part of the national habitat not crossed by climate-controlled malls and processed-food emporiums. If people expect a grizzly bear to be benign, or think a glacier is just another variant of a theme park slide, it’s not the fault of the government when something goes fatally wrong. This year, Yosemite is experiencing a surge of visitors — 730,000 in July, a record for a single month, they say. The park service is happy to be loved, after years of declining or stagnant use. But a lot of people bring their city swagger to the outdoors; they forget that Yosemite, the greatest waterfall show on earth, is also more than 90 percent wilderness. “Many of these people aren’t used to nature,” said Kari Cobb, a Yosemite park ranger. “They don’t fully understand it. We’ve got more than 800 trails and 3,000-foot cliffs in this park. You can’t put guardrails around the whole thing.” Last week, on the popular Mist Trail, which winds along the spray and froth of a thunderous nearby waterfall, Ms. Cobb found people hiking barefoot on the wet rock staircase. At Vernal Fall, where the water gathers itself in a stirring pool before plunging more than 300 feet, some hikers still ignore signs saying, essentially, don’t jump to your death. Read more Change the name to Darwin Park, make em sign a waiver, and let’s thin this herd of stupid ass people who think it’s payday time when one of their dumbass relatives tries to feed a grizzly a jelly sammich. http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=90380