I love stories about people vandalizing the Colosseum—and not realizing how old it is—because they make me feel better about myself. At least I'll never be that dumb.
But the sad thing about Colosseum defacement is that the nearly 2,000-year-old structure can't fight back. Nature, however, can.
Two women were recently gored and seriously injured in separate attacks involving bison while visiting national parks. While it's not clear how close the women were to the animals when they attacked, most people who have been gored by bison in Yellowstone between 2000 and 2015 were actively approaching them in apparent violation of the National Park Service requirement that visitors stay at least 25 yards away from them. Now, don't get me wrong. I try to avoid blaming the victim, and it's certainly sad that these people were injured. But after humans have hunted bison nearly to extinction, it's hard for me to view people as the primary victims of these encounters. As with the boat-ramming orcas that people love to root for, it's nice to think that nature has had enough and is telling us to kindly sod off. Either way, I hope these two women have a speedy recovery.
And if you're craving still more schadenfreude, please enjoy this video of someone discovering that a hot spring is "very hot."
—Abigail Weinberg
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