General Touron and/or Idiot Thread

[Soups]

Touron
[too r-on]

noun
1.
Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment while on vacation:
2.
Psychology. (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) a person of borderline intelligence in a former and discarded classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50 to 69 while on vacation.

Probably should have started this a couple years back with that gomer boyscout group in Goblin Valley, UT, but the three assholes in Nevada with the pupfish and now this? I feel like we should have an ongoing thread to hang our heads in disbelief...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/leticiamira...Rbp#.av5njBDry

But this one is beyond my comprehension

[mall walker]

Saw that. The national parks are beautiful places filled with a stunningly high concentration of stupidity. I was at Arches the other day watching some shirtless coloradbros roughhouse each other in between elderly people with trekking poles on the lip of the perhaps 50' fall near the top of the delicate arch trail (where I was taking my rather tottery mother in law, who would not have been able to recover from an accidental brobump). I'm sure if there was any wildlife in the desert we'd have the same behavior toward animals in Utah also.

Not sure what the solution is except possibly public execution... but every time I end up at one of the parks I find myself rooting for someone to fall to their death. On the very same hike to delicate arch, we saw a guy climb out on a maybe 6" thick ledge of sandstone over another maybe 40-50' (iow potentially fatal) drop in order to get an EPIC SELFIE, BRUH. Just got lucky it didn't crumble. I've not been to Yellowstone/GTNP but it seems even worse there. Aside from limiting daily traffic and increasing ranger staffing - something neither in the purpose nor likely in the budget of the NPS - I'm not sure what to do. But I sure keep hoping some of these people get their poetically just desserts...

[raisingarizona13]

fucking gapers. Sometimes I really think the world would be a much better place without us stupid humans inhabiting it.

[Mazderati]

The assholes that pushed over the stones in Goblin Valley qualify.

[Soups]

Yellowstone/GTNP is notorious for the touron. Probably the worst in the park system.

I have a buddy that used to work for the NPS and he would get a monthly internal newsletter regarding accidents and the like. He would send me excerpts of it sometimes and it was simply dumbfounding.

[Soups]

Another Yellowstone one. When I was in college on a geology trip we were staying in a large group campsite next to a terrible boyscout group from somewhere in the south based on their accents. They were just running around everywhere unsupervised like a bunch of feral cats. One of the turd kids was bitching about how he got into trouble for washing his hair in a stream that ran near the campground. He couldn't understand why he was in trouble because he used "Herbal Essences" shampoo and it was "natural". The ranger caught him and cited the troop. Fucking boyscouts.

[raisingarizona13]

The Grand Canyon is up there too.

The boy scouts are notorious for getting themselves in trouble for doing stupid shit.

[lifelinksplit]

No mention of the foreigners putting a buffalo calf in their Suv and dropping it at Ranger Station and getting themselves fined and the calf shot cause momma rejected it after human contact. Or dudes walking out on Grand prismatic the other day? Any semblance of rational thought leaves when people drive through the gates of national parks/monuments.

Edit: yeah apparently I'm just as retarded for no clicky link. I'm just gonna go get drunk and watch hockey now. Carry on

[Soups]

No mention of the foreigners putting a buffalo calf in their Suv and dropping it at Ranger Station and getting themselves fined and the calf shot cause momma rejected it after human contact.

Thats what started this thread and what that link above is about

[My Pet Powder Goat]

I'm Still waiting for this self-absorbed twat to get hers...
http://www.modernhiker.com/2014/10/2...ational-parks/

Still no charges filed for using acrylic paint to graffiti 10 national parks.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/artic...ism-still-open

[Soups]

Forgot about her. Ugh.

[capulin overdrive]

Guilty of trashing Jellystone when I was about 4 or 5 years old.

Threw a wax paper cup into the hot bubbling mud, from all the hype I reckoned it would catch fire or at least melt.

Needless to say, my mom freaked the fuck out. Me was a bad boy!

[BmillsSkier]

Every asshole that takes all the hot cookies at the end of the day at the base of the Beav.

Jerks.

[wicked_sick]

I think this lady qualifies. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.2458148

[My Pet Powder Goat]

Should have offered up the daughter.

[SkiBall]

There is small hope.

[wyeaster]

working in yellowstone and jackson touron stories were non-stop, but still this is sad.

Bison are very particular about their young. If a human gets between a mother and her calf, it could cause her to reject her own offspring. After retrieving the baby bison from the tourists, park rangers did try to reunite it with its mom.
"These efforts failed," park officials said. "The bison calf was later euthanized because it was abandoned and causing a dangerous situation by continually approaching people and cars along the roadway."

http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/ind..._after_ye.html

[groundcontrol323]

Selfie's are also killing the dolphins
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...d-for-selfies/

[Benny Profane]

I blame Walt Disney. I'll bet some people expect these animals to talk.

[danmelon]

Stupid chick is from New York.

Fucking artists.

[Vt-Freeheel]

We were in the Valley of Fire around 10 years ago and came upon some shitheads scratching their names among the petroglyphs.

[riser4]

working in yellowstone and jackson touron stories were non-stop, but still this is sad.

Bison are very particular about their young. If a human gets between a mother and her calf, it could cause her to reject her own offspring. After retrieving the baby bison from the tourists, park rangers did try to reunite it with its mom.
"These efforts failed," park officials said. "The bison calf was later euthanized because it was abandoned and causing a dangerous situation by continually approaching people and cars along the roadway."

http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/ind..._after_ye.html

FIFY. Please stop with the unreadable colors. Some of us prefer the dark blue background and can't stand the white background. Thank-you.

[danmelon]

some arts & crafts that are banging

no doubt no doubt. Much respect to the master crafters. Just these grafitto-taggers taking their crappy urban expressions to the natural environs is laaame and disrespectful. Should keep that ish for the oppressive city walls, and even then...

[Soups]

We were in the Valley of Fire around 10 years ago and came upon some shitheads scratching their names among the petroglyphs.

Did you say anything? If so how did they respond?

I've never understood people that feel the need to do that. Oh cool, some dick named Andersen was here in 2016...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0b49df6aadaae

[wyeaster]

FIFY. Please stop with the unreadable colors. Some of us prefer the dark blue background and can't stand the white background. Thank-you.

it's copy and paste. on my phone it looks normal.