A TV news reporter has been given the good old meme treatment after his hilarious reaction to an approaching herd of bison went viral.
NBC Montana reporter Deion Broxton was all set up to record a segment in Yellowstone Park when the hairy intruders showed up, effectively interrupting his shoot and forcing him to retreat, all while the camera was still rolling.
However, while filming the video teaser, he stops mid-sentence as he notices the animals heading in his direction.
He then turns to look back at the camera and then back to the herd again. As we would soon see, it looked like he was weighing his options.
“Oh no," he can be heard saying as he quickly packs up his still-filming camera and tripod into his car, "I ain’t messing with you."
"There was a herd of bison walking right toward me at @YellowstoneNPS today," he explained in the caption.
Obviously, the people of the internet love Broxton's hilarious retreat from the bison. Which probably explains why he's now become a viral sensation.
"When someone comes within 6 feet of me," one Twitter user quipped, while another added, "When you see April 2020 is coming next."
"Bison?" this user wrote, "That's how I am just walking down the sidewalk these days #socialdistancing."
"A perfect example of what to do when approached by wildlife," the park's official Twitter page tweeted, "Thanks Deion for putting the #YellowstonePledge into action!"
“They always say, ‘Stay at least 25 yards away from mammals,’” he told the Baltimore Sun.
He added, "I don’t know if he was actually going to come at me, but I knew I didn’t want to stick around to find out. I wasn’t trying to be on CNN for being killed by a bison.”
h/t: Baltimore Sun
