From March 3, 2023
And if there’s no one else to push down, you’re out of luck.
Do you believe this? Sheesh, it’s getting harder and harder to tell what’s satire and what’s… well, “news.”
The National Park Service’s official Twitter account has advised park visitors “Never push a slower friend down” in a bear encounter (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4135399/posts)… because “feeding another human to a bear is never the answer.”
So if you and your hiking partner should be chased by a bear, it’s really bad form to shove the slower human to the ground so you can escape while he (or she) gets eaten. Although how they would know you’d done that–unless someone else saw you–is a mystery.
Has this actually been a problem over the years? Or has the National Park Service, like so many other departments of the government these days, become infested with kooks and dindles who have no idea what they’re supposed to be doing? “They may be idiots, but we really need more [plug in your favorite grievance group] in government service!”
They’ll get nice pensions, though. If they can avoid getting eaten by bears.
Someone at another blog who’d seen this said that actually he’d probably want to push the faster friend down instead. 🙂
What if the bear is chasing 3 people? Do they pause to vote on who gets knocked down?
I can hardly bare to even contemplate this scenario. 🙂
Well, there goes my survival strategy. 🙂