Elk Video making the rounds on FB

[russ]

Interesting...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1384414331

[gutline homestead]

Originally Posted by russ

Interesting...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1384414331

All I could see was a really ..........person trying to get killed.does he know he was 1/2 second from dead for the whole time.They need to make some people take a course just to get near a tree.Or better yet keep em on a leash. It is all so wrong,starting with SAFE distance.Maybe it`s just the insult of an apex predator, letting it`s supper, turn it into a bi...

[Okotokian]

Wouldn't have just sat there like that. I didn't watch the whole thing but he was lucky he didn't get an antler point in the face or eye.

[220swifty]

Gotta love all the help offered by the onlookers.

[troutbug]

looks like a scene from jasper lol

[slough shark]

idiot!, I wonder why he seemed to think that his hat was providing him any protection...

[creeky]

he just very selfishly and stupidly conditioned that elk (hope that does not turn out to be someone else's problem down the road)

[32-40win]

I've had moose up that close, it is unnerving, looking up at them. You think there is no way it will come that close, but, they did. That is about the time you start questioning your sanity.

[chasingtail]

The dumb women in the suv could of just drove up and honked the horn, stupid.

[transplant]

According to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQExgOxZMQ he really was an innocent bystander.

The elk has been euthanized due to a pattern of aggressive behaviour brought about by park visitors feeding him from their cars.

Read the statement under the video.

[creeky]

Originally Posted by transplant

According to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQExgOxZMQ he really was an innocent bystander.

The elk has been euthanized due to a pattern of aggressive behaviour brought about by park visitors feeding him from their cars.

Read the statement under the video.

Thanks for the updated link. I read the comments & watched the vid again. And so here's my problem.

Twice ( 2.14 thru 2.18) he composes and shoots then chimps away (makin sure he got the shot). Again @ 3.47 thru 3.55 he has the presence of mind to shoot & chimp his lcd again. Then (minute 5.00 thru 5.49) he spooks young Elk getting some distance between them & walks (slowly away) steps into Honda SUV (which at that point is relatively close to other cover prior to the Honda showing up).

At 6.10 the SUV honks, approaches & Bull spooks back from the tripod & bag, guy then gets out of SUV (as the Bull is right back directly over photo gear) & precisely then photog elects to repatriate his equipment!

Sorry but that young Bull was euthanized owing to cumulative habituation & the photographer had a hand in it.