A bull bison hooked a retired grandfather near the hip and hurled him several feet into the air at a Yellowstone National Park campground on a Friday evening, leaving the man with multiple broken bones, but his grandson walked away uninjured. The eyewitness who filmed the attack believes that outcome was no accident.
Carl Isom-McDaniel, a retiree in his mid-60s from Kendall, Washington, was walking with his grandson near Bridge Bay Campground when the animal charged without provocation, Fox News Digital reported. Photographer Mike MacLeod, a Bozeman, Montana, veteran who captured the attack on video, said it looked like the grandfather positioned himself between the bison and the boy.
“It really felt to me like the grandfather kind of saved his grandson,” MacLeod said. “[He’d] taken the brunt of the attack.”