Bear spray is exploding in the trash near Yellowstone National Park
9 points by turtlegrids 2 hours ago | 9 comments
blinded 2 hours ago
Ive bought it a few times. I just USPS ground it home to myself. There should be a donation bin at the airport and exit points.
replyqazxcvbnmlp 55 minutes ago
Funny enough! There is a donation/disposal bin for bear-spray at BZN (the primary airport you fly to visit yellowstone).
replybeering 44 minutes ago
Seems rather wasteful for tourists to buy a can of bear spray, carry it around for a week, then throw it away. But sad that coming up with some kind of system to hand it off to the next tourist is hard? Otherwise everyone would use the rentals and there wouldn’t be so many in the trash.
replydylan604 12 minutes ago
It really shouldn't be hard. As you're walking out, just hand it to someone walking in. Even for our State Fair with the coupon racket that is used, I've been handed a string of tickets walking to the gate from someone that bought more than they could use. Funny timing though, I had already pre-purchased tickets that I didn't even use. On exiting, I gave away what I was given plus what I didn't use.
replyThe fact that there's not a stand/bin with a "need one, take one" type of sign is kind of head scratcher
rationalist 26 minutes ago
The rental cost is nearly the same cost as buying a can, or at least it was when I was there.
replywewewedxfgdf 15 minutes ago
Is bear spray like mosquito spray.
replyrationalist 14 minutes ago
No, it's like a super pepper spray. You definitely don't want to spray it on yourself.
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