On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, Christopher D. Geist wrote:

> I heartily agree.  Not long ago I watched as a visitor to Yellowstone
> demanded that the NPS Ranger "Tell me where you are keeping the bears
> today."  At first I thought she was joking, but she persisted in her
> demands and became quite upset that the Ranger was uninformed.  That is, he
> didn't seem to know where the bears were scheduled on that particular day!
> She never quite got it . . .

And there was the slightly more grisly case, reported last year, of three
tourists who were killed in a South African park -- they
got out of their vehicle and despite the warnings of bystanders, posed
jauntily in front of a pride of lions.   (Not to be insensitive,
but the "theme" in such cases would appear to be natural selection...)
Tom
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