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Yellowstone Bison Launches 65-Year-Old Man Into the Air in Unbelievable Video

PSA: Yellowstone regulations require visitors to stay at least 25 yards away from bison.

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It’s nice to know everybody’s okay after the viral video of an older man getting absolutely demolished by a rampaging bison in Yellowstone National Park. It’s one of those clips that’s a little funny but mostly unbelievable, in the kind of way that would make you feel awful if the guy hadn’t survived, because 65-year-old men are not designed to achieve brief, involuntary flight.

But they sure can be catapulted.

That man was Carl Isom-McDaniel, who suffered multiple broken bones after a bull bison charged him at Bridge Bay Campground on Friday evening. Wildlife photographer Mike McLeod just happened to be on hand filming the animal as it was roaming around........

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