Stupid people of the week
Yellowstone Tourist Files Complaint Over Lack Of Trained Grizzly Bears
When you think of a trip to Yellowstone National Park, visions of majestic landscapes, geysers, and diverse wildlife likely come to mind. Yet, for some visitors, the ultimate thrill seems to be the elusive—and dangerous—encounter with a Grizzly bear.
One recent visitor’s complaint highlighted this bizarre desire, as they expressed disappointment over not witnessing a bear sighting that could have led to a life-threatening mauling.
Of course, tourists pay good money for the Yellowstone experience, and the National Parks Service works tirelessly to meet expectations while ensuring safety. Yet, the reality is that habituated bears, while often spotted near roadsides, remain wild animals capable of inflicting serious harm. The National Parks Service has clear guidelines to protect both visitors and bears:
“Habituated bears are still wild bears and capable of inflicting serious injury or death. For your safety, remain within your vehicle when viewing and photographing roadside habituated bears. Always pull completely off of the road into paved pull-outs when stopping to view bears. Make sure your vehicle is in park and that you engage your emergency brake. Never approach, crowd, or surround bears. Running in the presence of bears may trigger a chase and attack response. Proper viewing and photographing etiquette will help keep both you and roadside habituated bears safe.” – The National Parks Service Official Bear Warning for Yellowstone National Park
Source; Unofficial Networks
Fraud investigators caught committing fraud on a grant to combat fraud
A San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office investigator is on paid leave amid allegations of fraud.
According to a news release from the district attorney’s office, potential fraud was flagged after an audit of the 2024 Auto Insurance Fraud Grant Application.
The district attorney’s office says the audit found an investigator within the office was allegedly falsifying timesheet information to justify the office’s receipt of grant funds.
The investigator told them they had done it at the ‘urging’ of the prior district attorney’s office administration.
District Attorney Ron Freitas began auditing the Auto Insurance Fraud Grant Program in 2017 and asked the San Joaquin County Auditor’s Office to conduct its own audit, too.
“We pledge to cooperate fully with the California Department of Insurance, the Office of the Attorney General and the San Joaquin County Auditor’s Office, to ascertain any wrongdoing, and return any monies that were fraudulently received by this Office via the Auto Insurance Fraud Grant Program,” said Freitas. “As soon as the alleged fraud was uncovered, we notified the California Department of Insurance, along with the Office of the Attorney General, in order to help correct the wrong that was committed and ensure that our Office is run with the highest ethical standards.”
The Auto Insurance Fraud Grant Program would give money to district attorney’s offices across the state to cover attorney’s fees, investigators, paralegals and other costs as it related to investigating and prosecuting auto insurance fraud.
Source; ABC10
Florida man convicted after admitting to heinous crime during job interview to become a police officer, facing life in prison
A Florida man, who aspired to become a police officer, admitted to sexually abusing his cousin during a police department job interview and now faces life in prison.
Stephen Bodley, 26, was convicted by an Orange County jury last week of sexual battery on a child, the office of State Attorney Andrew Bain said in a news release.
Bodley first mentioned “playing sexual games” in a sworn officer application with the Apopka Police Department.
He again mentioned the crime during an interview.
“The certified voice stress analysis examiner performed a voice stress examination on Bodley,” Bain said.
“During the examination, the examiner asked Bodley to expand on concerning answers he provided in a pre-test questionnaire.”
Bodley described sexually abusing a child years ago and admitted to it when he was asked to expand further.
Detectives tracked down the victim’s mother, who said Bodley and the victim had a close relationship, the Tampa Bay Times reported, citing an affidavit.
Fox News Digital has reached out to prosecutors.
The victim, a female, told the Florida Department of Children and Families about the abuse, saying it took place over several years, from when Bodley was around 14 to when he was about 19, the newspaper reported.
Bodley’s lawyer asked that his confession not be presented during trial, but a judge denied the request.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 24.
The conviction carries a sentence of up to life in prison.
Source; NY Post
MNPD officer fired after groping adult content creator in fake traffic stop stunt
Metro Nashville police say they fired now former officer Sean Herman on Wednesday after video surfaced of him groping a woman’s breasts while in uniform during a fake traffic stop.
The video — titled “Can’t believe he didn’t arrest me” — was originally posted by a woman named Jordin who was sitting in the driver’s seat. A man in the passenger seat is heard telling Jordin that he knew she would be pulled over for how fast she was driving.
The man pans the camera from the back windshield where a white squad car is seen. Jordin is then heard saying, “I’m not going to get a ticket…I’m going to show him my t**s.”
Moments later, an officer approaches the driver’s side door and identifies himself as “Officer Johnson of PD.”
The officer tells Jordin she was going “65 in a 45,” before asking for Jordin’s license and registration.
Jordin tells the officer that she doesn’t have either and then proceeds to expose her breasts to the officer.
The officer tells Jordin, “Ma’am, it’s 2024. I can see t**s on the internet any time.”
Jordin responds, “Well, what if you touched them?”
The officer agrees, and he is seen reaching into the car and groping Jordin’s breast before grabbing his genitals through his pants.
The camera is careful not to show the officer’s face but, for a brief moment, viewers see what appears to be the bottom half of a Metro Nashville Police Department patch on the officer’s shoulder.
The officer then tells Jordin that he’s letting her go with a warning.
The video ends with Jordin thanking the officer and the man sitting next to Jordin acting in disbelief.
Metro Nashville police told NewsChannel 5 Investigates that they were made aware of the video Wednesday and immediately launched an investigation.
That’s when they discovered that the officer in the video was Herman, who had been with the department since 2021.
Herman was fired on Thursday.
A police spokesperson said they believe the stunt was planned between all three parties and was shot sometime at the end of April.
Metro Nashville police say it’s not clear if Herman was on the clock while shooting the video.
“That was one of the most outrageous, disrespectful acts that a person here could do and, by disrespectful, I mean to all the MNPD employees and this agency,” said police spokesperson Don Aaron.
Metro Nashville police would not comment any further.
This is a developing story.
Source; News Channel 5
Category: Crime, Police, Stupid Criminals
Herd of bison chases off tourists because they felt like it:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-dont-think-thats-wise-video-captures-herd-of-bison-charging-tourists-in-yellowstone/ar-BB1mAiBT
The year we rode through Yellowstone on our way back from Sturgis, I recall there was report of a Japanese woman tourist who was gored to death because she tried to have her picture taken by her husband with her hand on the head of a bull Bison. Guess she thought it was like having a pic with a water buffalo in SE Asia. We saw bison on the road on a trip through a park near Sturgis, but we wisely drove through that park in the car one of our crew drove because his new Kawasaki was kaput. The Bison were on the road, so we got out and took pics, but from 20 yards away so we could get back in the car pronto, if necessary.
I remember seeing people working the rice paddies with their babies strap to the backs of the water buffalo. So a lot of Asian people think of buffalo as docile baby sitters. Rude awakening meeting our buffalo.
‘Merica! (Our indigenous fuzzy cows are wild– do not annoy the 2,000lb critter with horns.)
Maybe those with a quest for adventure should be given a GPS monitor, and dropped into a known active grizzly area. Still no guarantee of grizzly sightings, but odds would be exponentially increased. If no movement for a couple of days, go find or retrieve them. Ask, if possible, if it lived up to their expectations.
“disappointment over not witnessing a bear sighting”
Now that wouldn’t happen in Jellystone with Yogi and Boo-Boo
more than happy to greet vistors.
And steal their pick-i-nick baskets!🤣
Guess they didn’t see Cocaine Bear:
There are few things in the world stupider than a Yellowstone tourist. AKA tourons or touroids.
Remember, don’t pet the fluffy cows, and the bear is bigger than you so don’t piss it off.
Some place I have one of a buffalo with people silhouettes on it’s side like kill markers.
To those tourists looking for a grizzly…
This is NOT the zoo.
There are are no bars on he cages.
There aren’t even any cages.
Enter at your own risk.
This reminds me of two scenes from two different shows.
First, from “Yellowstone”, where Costner chases the Chinese tourists off of his property and away from a bear. (I love the part where the tourist exclaims “no one should own this much land! it should be shared with all!”. Costner tells him right back, “this is America, we don’t share land!”)
There’s a scene early in “Jurassic Park” where they’ve staked out a goat to get a dinosaur to show itself. But the dino doesn’t show. Something something to the effect “forgot to tell them the schedule”.
What could possibly go wrong here?
https://www.foxnews.com/world/bidens-plan-admit-gazans-us-could-backfire-brainwashed-hamas-expert-warns
Yes. Also, let’s recruit some ISIS and Al Queda to immigrate. We obviously don’t have enough aliens residing among us who hate America, Christians and Jews. Let’s import our own Jihadis. Why force them to sneak across the border?
I’m thinking RFK Jr might protest.
Found it.
Why do they call it tourist season if we can’t shoot em?
Buffalo hunting tourist season.
Sgt. Carter, surprise…surprise! The Shiffhole, Swallowswell, and Nancy Piglosi have all voted against that immigration bill that would require the deportation of illegal aliens who assault police officers. I guess the Progs believe the people who illegally invade us should all be given a Get out of Jail Free card when out processed by Border Patrol.
Me…”How stupid can people get?”
People…”We accept your challenge…hold muh beer!”
I wouldn’t last long as a Park Ranger…
“No one told you the secret? Smear yourself with bacon fat. They will then pose for you up close even. Just have some bacon to give them when they run through their tricks. ”
Nope. Wouldn’t last a week…
In the 90’s over 200 cases were overturned because a state forensic investigator applied to the FBI and when asked “have you ever successfully faked evidence that was accepted in a trial” answered honestly that he had.
The interviews acted really interested and asked for more details and stories, like this was exactly what they wanted to hire.
It’s reported he talked for over an hour before they had enough and arrested him.
MAN, that’s some 24K Politician-Grade STUPID. AS TO Yellowstone National Park, I wonder if some of the Rangers who work there don’t have a betting pool on how many will buy the farm each year from trying to cuddle up with local wildlife with Bison and Bear topping the list?
I would be surprised if they didn’t at least joke about starting one. Draw a number from a hat,, donations accepted, to be placed in the coffee tin by the door
There are about 840,000 black bears and 60,000 grizzly bears in North America. People don’t see bears cause they don’t generally hang around areas frequented by people. Unless someone’s been feeding them in some way. Most park visitors don’t wander more than a hundred yards from trails. Chances are slim seeing a bear in a single trip out in a park. So if you want to see bears your best option is to go to a zoo or sleep with food in your tent. Even then you’re more likely to have a raccoon stop by.
I’ve no idea which magnificent bastard made that Full Metal Jacket meme, but my hat is off to them.
Not all heroes wear capes.
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And don’t swim in the hot springs or you will become soup.