After a terrifying bison attack at Yellowstone National Park left Carl Isom-McDaniel with a broken leg, the grandfather from Kendall, Washington is speaking out about the harrowing experience."We saw the bison and he was down.He wasn't showing aggression or anything like that until it picked a target.
That target happened to be me," Isom-McDaniel said, in a video taken from his hospital room at Bozeman Health, a hospital in Southwest Montana."They move faster than you could ever imagine," he added, referring to bison."He just kept coming, and he was more aggressive.
As soon as he got off that tree, he launched me in the air," said the grandfather, who was attacked on July 10. YELLOWSTONE OFFICIALS DECIDE FATE OF BISON THAT LAUNCHED GRANDFATHER 8 FEET IN AIRIsom-McDaniel was with his grandson at Bridge Bay Campground near Yellowstone Lake that evening."I didn't get bruises from him launching me in [the] air.It was the landing that [caused] the problem," Isom-McDaniel said.Speaking from his hospital bed in Montana, bison attack victim Carl Isom-McDaniel said bulls "move faster than you could ever imagine." (iStock; Bozeman Health)The grandfather broke his femur in four places and underwent surgery.
He's been recovering at the Montana hospital, according to several reports."It was definitely clear that he had a pretty painful injury.It's actually broken in multiple pieces," a doctor who treated Isom-McDaniel said in the Bozeman Health video.YELLOWSTONE BISON ATTACK WITNESS BELIEVES MAN SAVED HIS GRANDSON BY TAKING BRUNT OF ATTACKFrom the start, Isom-McDaniel's goal was to protect his grandson."It was like, you need to get up to the amphitheater.
I will deal with this down here," the grandfather said, recalling what he told his grandson.The grandfather was tossed into the air by a charging bison at Yellowstone National Park.(Mike MacLeod)Photographer Mike McLeod, who witnessed the terrifying attack, said he believes Isom-McDaniel saved his grandson."Once I saw the...