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Yellowstone National Park Follies
There is actually a book by the park historian, who is also a lawyer, about fatalities in the park. Some are right in your vein, like jumping into a boiling volcanic pool when you're drunk, others are just bizarre, such as the time a woman was attacked and borne off by a grizzly and her companions identified her as the likely victim by a piece of her lip left in the ruins of her tent.
Two side bars:
1. A home video shown on TV, where the guy's last words on earth while feeding bears as his family looks on from the motor home are "Honey, where's that other loaf of bread?".
2. An avid hiker/camper told me this one: When in grizzly country, you shoudl wear little bells on your pack and bootlaces to announce your presence so they won't be surprised, and carry pepper spray in case the bells don't deter them enough. You can tell which type of bear you are around by examining the scats; grizzly scat is often full of little mangled bells and smells like pepper spray. (By the way, they found grizzlies LOVE pepper spray, they will roll in it when used like Raid Yard Guard).
PAX,
majroj
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majroj
on April 7, 2003 at 5:22 PM
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