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u/Mumblix_Grumph Aug 20 '26
I was at Panorama Point a couple weeks ago. A little marmot came right up to me and tried to eat my boot. I never even thought to put my hands anywhere near those big sharp pointy teeth.
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u/Better_March5308 š» Aug 20 '26
Nice marmot.
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u/JSlngal69 Blaine Aug 20 '26
let's not forget, Dude - that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either
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u/AGlassOfMilk Eat a bag of Dicks Aug 20 '26
Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion, man.
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u/PineappleFit317 Aug 20 '26
I love that movie, but there are two things that bother me: that is a ferret, and the dog Walter is watching is not a Pomeranian.
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u/Darkarchon567 Aug 20 '26
My impression has always been that that is, in fact, the joke in both instances.
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u/laurak8te Aug 20 '26
He was such a jerk in the comments in his original video. Didnāt want to admit fault.
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u/covidlung Aug 20 '26
Well sometimes people come around.
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u/SpicyDirtTheGhost Twin Peaks Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
Yeah $230 fine and public shaming later really can make someone come around
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u/TheBloodyNinety Aug 20 '26
The only thing he ācame aroundā on was the realization if he posted this video heād get more likes.
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u/laurak8te Aug 20 '26
After hundreds of comments, yes he did. He replied to many of them with an attitude.
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u/ChaosRainbow23 Aug 20 '26
To be fair, an adorable creature ran up to him being nice. He pet it, not knowing the laws.
I don't think he didn't anything wrong at all.
If not friend, why friend shaped?
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u/cmonster127 Aug 20 '26
Ignorance of rules doesn't mean they don't apply. There is a significant amount of information the park provides on regulations and the reasons behind them. Interacting with wildlife (feeding, petting, etc) habituates animals to humans and puts them in far more dangerous situations.
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u/flightwatcher45 Aug 20 '26
Yep, sometimes reddit acts like you can't change. He learned a few lessons, good for him, move along.
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u/laurak8te Aug 20 '26
Itās hard to say that when there were hundreds of people telling him it was wrong and he would NOT accept it.
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u/blazedancer1997 Aug 20 '26
Dang I was seconds away from typing a comment about him taking it on the chin
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u/degenkris Aug 21 '26
āAdmit faultā for peacefully interacting with wildlife. What a sad loser you are.
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u/laurak8te Aug 21 '26
Read the rules.
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u/degenkris Aug 21 '26
A sad loser and a bootlicker, nice combo.
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u/laurak8te Aug 21 '26
Someone doesnāt like rules š¤·š¼āāļø
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u/degenkris Aug 21 '26
I donāt like when rules are used to punish people who did absolutely no harm, everyone understands not touching wildlife is a rule to protect them but punishing someone for a small pet to an animal that ran up to them first is crazy and being the person to defend that lunacy bcs āMuh Rulezā is just pathetic.
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u/laurak8te Aug 21 '26
Sure bud, keep being angry that you canāt understand why people are mad. Youāll figure it out someday.
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u/degenkris Aug 21 '26
Yeah one day Iāll figure out why petting an animal that ran up to you is something be up in arms about. Again, what a sad loser you are.
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u/laurak8te Aug 21 '26
Itās like thereās a reason why! As you said! Sorry, can you not read? I guess that makes sense, given youāre still hereā¦
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u/degenkris Aug 21 '26
Oh wow, you are really a full authoritarian boot licker. Hope you discover critical thinking someday.
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u/arober202 Aug 20 '26
I appreciate the PSA.
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u/Vyvyan_180 Aug 20 '26
I had a marmot steal my golf ball once when I was a kid - just like Caddyshack!
I was disappointed when he didn't do the little dance after though.
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u/EdgarAllenPoe2205 Aug 20 '26
Hiking all the Rainier trail systems was so much better in the 1990's & 2000's before all the douchebags arrived and made it their online identity. Now, you go up there, and 1/2 the people are walking around aimlessly trying to get the best picture or video for their Instagram. They don't even care about the area or keeping the trails nice and clean.
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u/CloudCityCitizen Aug 20 '26
You mean the Chinese tourists
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u/KG7DHL Issaquah Aug 20 '26
You should visit Yosemite....
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u/TheRealRacketear Broadmoor Aug 20 '26
Or The Redwoods.
They goto REI and gear up for nature walks.
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u/CloudCityCitizen Aug 20 '26
Yes, and not always but usually they're the ones I see trampling meadows off trail, feeding animals, or bypassing roped off hot spring areas at parks. Shit some of them even bring their little ass dogs in National Parks on trails.
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u/ChaseballBat Sasquatch Aug 20 '26
Go forbid people go outside and do something. Conflating two types of people to justify your hatred.
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u/raphtze Aug 20 '26
it ain't my cup of tea...but more people outside is a good thing. too often people gate keep things. although i do agree sometimes too much of a good thing can be bad. yosemite is a prime example.
still, different levels of abilities for everyone. i have younger kids and we love to walk around the valley in yosemite :)
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u/government_not_ok Aug 20 '26
At least he acknowledge he was wrong, other asshats wouldāve painted themselves as the victim.Ā
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u/ProfessionalPack7205 Aug 20 '26
Dude was probably getting roasted in comments so had no choice honestly.
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u/HighColonic Funky Town Aug 20 '26
That's a fair point. He got points from me when he said he paid the fine without fighting it.
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u/JavaLava45 Aug 20 '26
What is there to fight?
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u/HighColonic Funky Town Aug 20 '26
Get outta here with that shit. Entitled bitches don't need reasons. He could have just denied reality like half of this country and refused to pay. But he took the high road!
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u/JavaLava45 Aug 20 '26
Or just not post it to the internet and implicate oneself in a crime? Is my pointā¦.but clearly any level headed rationale is out the window with your previous response. So you can get outta here with your shit my indelibly uneducated sir
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u/AGlassOfMilk Eat a bag of Dicks Aug 20 '26
Is there a reason why you are being a dick?
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u/JavaLava45 Aug 20 '26
āGet outta here with that shitā would be reason A followed by āentitled bitches donāt need reasonsā as reason b. This person deserves to be treated how they treat others. Simple as that
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u/AGlassOfMilk Eat a bag of Dicks Aug 20 '26
I hope you see the irony in your answer. In any case, stop being a dick.
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u/Timely-Mind7244 Aug 20 '26
I dont think he knew it was illegal before posting it.... unless he wanted to create the video to help "inform others" but that's really stretching.... if i had no idea a cute, harmless looking animal approached me, I would sure as shit hope I was getting filmed and then post on my story, I did the same for a cool piece of art, or kitten I am fostering. I understand its a wild animal, but I grew up with letting ppl have natural consequences when messing 28th wildlife, he took the risk.
I dont think we should feed them bc that makes them less independent, but we do that for our college aged kids, soooooo
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u/GarnetandBlack Aug 20 '26
I assume there are a fucking ton of signs about this, because yeah it's gonna be instinct on my part to reach down and pet it a bit (thats what she said).
Particularly because if a wild animal latches onto me I'm gonna want to make the separation a calm, no sudden movements, kind of thing.
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u/sam_42_42 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
The insufferable generation. Can't even see that the problem was him and his karma farming. He can't think beyond that.
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Editing here because my comment has generated a lot of controversy.
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I don't have an issue with the fact that a marmot approached him. I don't have an issue with him recording a video of it. I have an issue with his instinct to immediately share it on social media, with no thought given to the social consequences of encouraging others to behave similarly, nor to the fact that he is publicly documenting illegal behavior for the world to see.
Then he turns around and tries to profit from the persecution and pretend he is the victim here.
So yes. Insufferable.
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u/Energy_Turtle Aug 20 '26
No one should make mistakes, accept the consequences, and then educate others on what they did wrong. Totally insufferable behavior.
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u/JuniorDoughnut3056 Aug 20 '26
Hes literally admitting to be wrongĀ
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u/Angels242Animals Aug 20 '26
If you read his original comments in that thread between he and the Ranger, he was trying to deny any wrongdoing whatsoever. Heās a piece of shit who is just karma farming.
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u/JuniorDoughnut3056 Aug 20 '26
An animal came up to him, climbed on his leg, and he pet it. It's a natural reaction a lot of people would have. Calling this intentional interference is a stretch. He didn't seek it out or do something to entice it over. He made a mistake and now he's posting a video explaining to that sameĀ audience what he did was a mistake and the consequences for it. Now you wanna bash him for trying to correct it? Jesus, bro, chill tf outĀ
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u/blogito_ergo_sum Aug 20 '26
An animal came up to him, climbed on his leg, and he pet it. It's a natural reaction a lot of people would have.
Unserious conspiracy theory: clearly the park rangers are training the marmots to come up to hapless tourists for pets, so that they can write fines
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u/JuniorDoughnut3056 Aug 20 '26
They legitimately could if they wanted to. The animals in the parks are damn smart. Was up in the goat rocks the other week and a squirrel figured out how to unzip my tent when I had my back turned cooking breakfast. Came back over to see him doing laps around the inside and freaking out because he saw me coming. Was nice being the only person up at the lake willing to brave an over night in the smoke, but it also made me target numero uno for those criminals.Ā
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u/morelibertarianvotes Aug 20 '26
This is one of the must insufferable comments I've had the pleasure of reading
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u/ChaseballBat Sasquatch Aug 20 '26
Generational insulats are a mechanism of the oligarchy to keep us fighting against each other. Think beyond that.
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u/carnalasadasalad Aug 20 '26
Ok boomer.
This is literally every old person talking about young people, ever.
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u/sam_42_42 Aug 20 '26
Gen X actually. And yeah, it is.
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u/AdProud5950 Aug 23 '26
Itās always Gen X lmfao. Why are you guys obsessed with us? Like you werenāt young and dumb? Imagine you had every idiotic thing you did posted online. Thatās what makes this generation seem so much worse. You just never saw the disgusting things your peers were doing. Yes thereās problems with us but when you generalize like that it just makes it seem like you think youāre superior or something, when I know you were causing bullshit in your teen years
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u/Turbulent-Flight7625 Aug 20 '26
I will not pet the cute fuzzy things that come up and act friendly. Thanks for the advice š
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u/MyLastSigh Aug 20 '26
I had a MtRainier chipmunk come out of nowhere to grab a snack out of my hand. Glad I didn't make a video of it.
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u/SubductionZone1 Aug 20 '26
Almost 50 years ago on the side of a mountain in Colorado I was sitting next to a TA in a field geology class. It was a very steep slope, and our butts were on the ground and our feet downhill were holding us up with our legs at almost the same angle you would get from sitting on a chair. All of a sudden, a marmot was waddling downhill between the two of us. But that was not good enough. He took a right turn and went under the legs of the TA that was sitting next to me.
We didn't pet the guy; we were too surprised to react. This was in an area where people were very rare, and the marmot was not begging. He just did not see us as predators.
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u/estie-the-tato Aug 20 '26
So the president can diddle little girls but the government is on this kids ass within 1 day
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u/SeattleHasDied Aug 20 '26
Didn't see anything earlier from this guy so glad he revisited the situation with this "mea culpa".
To be honest, I think the marmot is a little bit culpable here, too, lol! Damn those little pudgy dudes are cute, lol! OP, thanks for the PSA.
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u/AncientNectarine5352 Aug 20 '26
To be fair, it literally took days of arguing with people and being publicly shamed for him to do so. The guy is extremely egotistical.
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u/OccasionalEspresso Aug 20 '26
Theyāre cute but theyāll tear up your shit to get to your food if you leave your pack on the ground. Fuck marmots (respectfully).
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u/gehnrahl Eat a bag of Dicks Aug 20 '26
I think the marmot is a little bit culpable here
Its been habituated by people like him. At best a non habituated wild animal will ignore you and go about their day.
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u/SeattleHasDied Aug 20 '26
You are, unfortunately correct, but I hope you didn't miss the intended humor.
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u/gehnrahl Eat a bag of Dicks Aug 20 '26
I got it, but I really fucking hate normies ruining nature. Like, I do get irrationally angry at the carelessness of people and how our frankly limited "wild" places are treated.
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u/SeattleHasDied Aug 20 '26
When I worked in Yosemite, a big problem was trying to stop the tourists from luring the wildlife (bears were the bigger issue) with junk food and candy in order to get a photograph. We tried to explain the obvious (Doritos and Twinkies are NOT bear food), but then added that they were, in effect, killing that bear. We'd ask them if they noticed the plastic ear tag the bear might be wearing, then we explained what the different colors meant. I believe bears got two relocations, but if they insisted on returning to the all-you-can-eat Doritos buffet a third time, they were "dead bear walking", as indicated by the color ot ear tag. And they still didn't give a shit. It was a great source of satisfaction to see the park rangers hand out tickets for this, but it still sucks bears died. (Also hard to be mad at Herschel for the salmon issue, lol!).
That being said, whatever assholiness OP exhibited earlier, I'm glad he read the room and did the right thing.
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u/gehnrahl Eat a bag of Dicks Aug 20 '26
Its getting to be a huge problem in the North Cascades. The bears are getting habituated because trash hikers aren't storing their food appropriately. Got charged by a bear along the rainbow loop. Camp sites full of food litter. Emailed their bear expert and their like....yeah its been happening more and more
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u/OppressedCactus Aug 20 '26
Right? I know it's wrong to pet them (and why) but if not friend why friend shaped yadda yadda.
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u/Particular_Week_2754 Aug 20 '26
Wait, the said itās misdemeanor punishable by 5k fine and jail time. 230 is nothing, he is very lucky.
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u/meergreister Aug 20 '26
Seems excessive. I used to work for the park service and making an example out of someone for something like this doesnāt look great IMO especially when people do far far worse.
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u/BicameralTheory West Seattle Aug 20 '26
Downvote the fuck out of me but Iād pay $230 to pet and get hugged by a marmot on Ranier.
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u/Phrodo_00 Greenwood Aug 20 '26
Just don't pet the marmot. I don't think (but I'm not sure either) you're supposed to dogde them if they want to touch you, you just can't touch them.
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u/BicameralTheory West Seattle Aug 20 '26
Nah Iām petting the marmot and probably gonna feed it some treats
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u/gehnrahl Eat a bag of Dicks Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
Banned for being a douche and ruining nature.
EDIT: Unbanned for making a donation to NPS
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u/apprehensivetaconose Aug 20 '26
Also, they carry The Plague. Not typically in Washington, but letās not get in the habit of petting adorable potential plague critters.
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u/Aggressive_Adagio602 Aug 20 '26
Looks to me like the marmot approached him. He should sue the critter for assault, mental anguish, etc.
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u/Agreeable-Deal2236 Aug 20 '26
So I can shit in your front yard if I'm on drugs or squat in my landlords property till their financially ruined... But touching a friendly mountain gopher... That's the line.
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u/Vast_Deference Aug 20 '26
What he lacks in thought he makes up for in smugness. Seems like an insufferable twat
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u/Joel22222 West Seattle Aug 20 '26
So itās only $250 to pet one of those guys? Iām in.
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u/Numerous-Nectarine63 Aug 20 '26
I have them on my farm in cetnral WA. Maybe I should charge people admission to pet a marmot... LOL
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u/ddddooooook Aug 20 '26
Iām confused. He pet a marmot that came up to him. Why is that illegal? Do marmots have issues when people touch them like geckos or something?
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u/endndhdhdnndnsbs Aug 20 '26
donāt touch wildlife or they get used to other people. Yosemite absolutely ruined with this same mindset now squirrels follow you and harass others for food, then end up biting
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u/shoebacca40 Aug 20 '26
Only in America do we seek to fine people for shit like this. Doesnāt the Ranger have other things to do besides scroll Instagram?
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u/SushiLover1000 Aug 20 '26
the best attitude. ignorance of the law isnt an excuse.
so glad you chose to man up and share your experience.
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u/Separate-Rhubarb7950 Aug 20 '26
Or how about donāt video yourself do it and post it like an idiot?
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u/degenkris Aug 21 '26
Gotta love Seattle, wonāt arrest people for random assaults even on women and will let violent rpists and literal murderers out but god forbid you pet some wildlife for a couple seconds. Just remember in Seattle you are more welcome to rob, murder, and harass or even assault people than you are to peacefully enjoy wildlife.
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u/Square-Kiwi-111 Aug 22 '26
You're a good guy for being responsible & doing the next right thang - including this PSA.
AND, Rangers... ticket on the spot, not after the fact. Show up at random times. Make sure visitors hear it directly from YOU atm.
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u/sbm1970 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
They should give people a night or two in jail for this type of thing
Edit: didnāt watch the video, just saw the title. My bad!
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u/El--Borto Aug 20 '26
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u/sbm1970 Aug 20 '26
Ah guess I shouldāve actually watched the video before commenting
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u/El--Borto Aug 20 '26
Probably a good rule of thumb especially for a video of a dude petting a fuckin marmot that latched onto his leg lmao Iād pet the damn thing too!
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u/prcshmbrgrs Aug 20 '26
"learn a very expensive mistake"
homeboy is absolutely cooked in the brains department
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u/Chai_Akimbo Aug 20 '26
Expensive petting zoo, that goes towards helping the local rangers take care of a vast stretch of wilderness and wildlife?..Worth itā¦
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u/ReasonableGas8904 Aug 20 '26
Fuck Washington!
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u/slabsquathrust Aug 20 '26
National Park rangers are commissioned federal law enforcement officers...
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u/CoronaBud Aug 20 '26
Well that seems a bit extreme. Dude broke the law and paid his fines, and there are laws like these all over the nation meant to protect wildlife AND people. If he wouldn't have touched it and it still came up to him and got on his leg he would have been okay and paid no fine, and there are plenty of reasons behind why people shouldn't be touching random wildlife, for both the animals and for people.
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u/SeaChange1356 Aug 20 '26
Donāt film yourself touching wildlife then post it online. Illicit and private touching is allowed.
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u/tallkidinashortworld Aug 20 '26
Way too many idiots feed the wildlife at Rainer. I was there a few weeks ago and so many chipmonks and squirrels ran right up to me wanting food.