{"id":134979,"date":"2023-12-04T17:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=134979"},"modified":"2023-12-04T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:24:05","slug":"man-who-tried-to-pet-a-bison-ends-up-hospitalized-and-banged-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/man-who-tried-to-pet-a-bison-ends-up-hospitalized-and-banged-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who tried to pet a bison ends up hospitalized and &apos;banged-up&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Man who tried to pet a bison ends up hospitalized with a punctured stomach, lacerated liver, broken rib and &#8216;banged-up&#8217; lung after wild beast attacked him and flipped him over with his horns<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A Utah man is recovering a bison gave him an eight-inch laceration after he attempted to pet it while returning home from a Thanksgiving party<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Utah man is recovering from a litany of serious injuries after he attempted to pet a bison while walking home from a family celebration just before Thanksgiving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Halen Carbajal told KUTV\u00a0that he suffered a liver laceration, broken rib and bruised lung following the encounter, which took place close to the town of Provo.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old said that the bison, which was behind a fence on a neighboring property, started following him after he got its attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He had followed me all the way over, and I was like, &#8216;Oh, that&#8217;s pretty cool. I kind of did want to pet him, so I was just being na\u00efve about the whole thing, so I did that, and yeah he just rocked me pretty good,&#8217; Carbajal said from his hospital bed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He went on to describe himself as &#8216;definitely the idiot&#8217; in the scenario, adding that he should never have gone so close to the animal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/16\/78561021-12823949-image-a-42_1701707686498.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Utah man Halen Carbajal is recovering a bison gave him an eight-inch laceration after he attempted to pet it while returning home from a Thanksgiving party<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/16\/78561019-12823949-image-a-43_1701707692604.jpg\" height=\"355\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think he struck me and then lifted me, which would make sense why my rib was broken too,&#8217; Carbajal said in describing the attack<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/16\/78561299-12823949-image-a-48_1701708154384.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Carbajal, shown here second from the right, just finished a season working with the Utah Conservation Corps, a group which works on various environmental programs across the state<\/p>\n<p>In describing the attack, the victim said that the bison bowed its head and stuck his horn into him. &#8216;I think he struck me and then lifted me, which would make sense why my rib was broken too,&#8217; Carbajal said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I crawled.\u00a0There was a fence with some pretty good gaps in it, so I squeezed through the lower ones. I don&#8217;t think he was really trying to attack me. I think he was just curious because he didn&#8217;t go after me after that,&#8217; he said discussing his escape.<\/p>\n<p>Carbajal said that he was in the hospital for seven days after the incident, which prompted friends to set up a GoFundMe\u00a0page in order to help him to pay his medical bills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Halen is in good spirits despite his situation and we&#8217;re all hoping for a smooth recovery.\u00a0Anything to help with the emergency medical bills will be so appreciated,; the introduction to the crowdfunding page reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the page, Carbajal just finished a season working with the Utah Conservation Corps, a group which works on various environmental programs across the state. At the time of writing, the page has raised nearly $5,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was for sure a reality check or recognizing my naivety and thinking it would be fine to try and touch one, and just realizing that you got to have a lot more reverence for big, crazy beasts like that&#8230; There&#8217;s admiration and then there&#8217;s a level of respect you have to have with just keeping your distance.&#8217;,&#8217; Carbajal told KUTV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Utah Division of Wildlife Resources spokesperson Faith Heaton-Jolley told KUTV that the public should be wary of bison&#8217;s calm demeanor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/16\/78561093-12823949-image-a-45_1701707768756.jpg\" height=\"421\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>As many as 60 million bison once roamed North America, moving in vast herds that were central to the culture and survival of numerous Native American groups<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/16\/78561061-12823949-image-a-44_1701707764807.jpg\" height=\"1013\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0pamphlet distributed by the National Park Service to people entering Yellowstone National Park warns visitors not to get too close to bison<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s just this common misconception that because they kind of look like cows, people think they&#8217;re domestic or friendly.\u00a0They are wild animals. They do act unpredictably sometimes, and they can act aggressively if you get too close to them,&#8217; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As many as 60 million bison once roamed North America, moving in vast herds that were central to the culture and survival of numerous Native American groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They were driven to the brink of extinction more than a century ago when hunters, U.S. troops and tourists shot them by the thousands to feed a growing commercial market that used bison parts in machinery, fertilizer and clothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By 1889, only a few hundred bison remained. Thanks to efforts from both state and federal governments, there are now more than 50,000 bison in the US.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The return of bison in some locations is considered a conservation success. But Haaland said they remain &#8216;functionally extinct&#8217; and more work is needed to return the animals to tribal lands and restore the grasslands they depend on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12823949\/Man-tried-pet-bison-ends-hospitalized-punctured-stomach-lacerated-liver-broken-rib-banged-lunch-wild-beast-attacked-flipped-horns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man who tried to pet a bison ends up hospitalized with a punctured stomach, lacerated liver, broken rib and &#8216;banged-up&#8217;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Man who tried to pet a bison ends up hospitalized and &amp;apos;banged-up&amp;apos; 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