Yellowstone Bison Toss

Origin

The incident happened on July 10, 2026 at Bridge Bay Campground in Yellowstone National Park. Carl Isom-McDaniel, 65, was with his grandson at what reporting later confirmed was a legal distance from the animal when a bull bison, agitated by a passing white pickup truck, redirected and charged. Professional photographer Mike MacLeod was filming and caught the full toss. He posted the video to Facebook on July 11, where it passed 626,000 views and the accompanying still drew more than 10,400 reactions. Cowboy State Daily broke the story the same day. The detail that made it spread rather than simply circulate was the physics: the footage shows a grown man going up, not sideways, in a clean arc that reads as cartoonish until you learn he broke his femur in four places.

Spread

The X account @Mollyploofkins reposted the charge on July 11 and that version reached 53.3 million views inside two days, which is the moment it stopped being a news clip and started being raw material. On July 12 a sped-up edit scored to Yakety Sax, the Benny Hill theme, took 4.4 million views and about 15,000 likes in a single day, and a Reddit post on r/interestingasfuck cleared 69,000 upvotes. Editors kept going: surfing composites, skateboarding composites, FAFO captions, and Bye Son wordplay. By July 13 a painting of the toss had drawn nearly 200,000 views on X in six hours and Bob Ross style AI edits about a happy little tossed tourist were circulating on TikTok. Shirts appeared within days. NBC News, The Daily Beast and TMZ all covered it, and on July 14 the National Park Service confirmed the bison would not be euthanized.

Legacy

Too early to judge, and unusually complicated for a joke video. The remix wave and the reporting ran at the same time, so the same week that produced the Benny Hill edit also produced the detail that the victim was standing at a legal distance and was undergoing surgery on a femur broken in four places. That split the discourse between mockery and sympathy in a way most animal attack clips never manage. Know Your Meme has an entry, still marked as a submission under research. The Solana response was thin: one small token launched two days after the incident and never grew past five figures.

The Chain Trail

MemePedia tracks 1 Yellowstone Bison Toss memecoin across Solana.

Key facts

• On July 10, 2026 a bull bison charged 65 year old Carl Isom-McDaniel at Bridge Bay Campground in Yellowstone National Park and launched him roughly eight feet into the air.
• Professional photographer Mike MacLeod filmed the attack and posted it to Facebook on July 11, 2026, where it passed 626,000 views.
• Reporting says the bison was agitated by a passing white pickup truck and that McDaniel and his grandson were at a legal distance.
• A repost by @Mollyploofkins on X reached 53.3 million views within two days and is the version that turned the clip into a meme.
• On July 12, 2026 a sped-up edit set to Yakety Sax, the Benny Hill theme, took 4.4 million views in one day.
• McDaniel broke his femur in four places and required surgery, which split the reaction between jokes and sympathy.
• On July 14, 2026 the National Park Service confirmed the bison would not be euthanized.
• Know Your Meme opened an entry for the video, still flagged as a submission under research.