I was biting my lip keeping quite, but since brother JB mentioned it I will chime in.
Everyone has seen the hunting shows of moose, elk, deer, etc., usually during breeding season attacking the hunter as he shoots. Or watched the video shows of animals whacking people, lots of times kids. Now Fritz may have been standing right beside the van sliding door or the photo taken out a rear window with him right behind the open door. But that is not enough to be safe when that close. That was too close in appearance.
Big animals that are use to people are the ones I would worry about the most.
I have watched a deer tear down a good portion of a metal posted wire fence, have seen buffalo tear apart cheap horse trailers. One time when radio collaring buck whitetails we did not use drugs, we caught them in big box traps that had little doors that allowed us to tie up their feet and grab their antlers while protected outside, then we 5 or 6 big guys would pull them outside and on the ground......this 8 pt buck lay quietly as we radio collared him, drew blood and didn't flinch much when we tried freeze branding a letter on his rear with liquid nitrogen, we had his head covered with a jacket, we untied his hooves, we all 5 slowly released our holds one at a time, the buck was calm and never moved, the last guy was going to let go of the hooves, grab the jacket and jump in the back of a PU less than 10 feet away, I was next to last and slowly let go of the antlers and quitely was pulled up in the pickup, that buck caught that last guy with one horn in the pocket with his billfold in mid-air as he was leaping onto the tailgate. And that deer came from a laying down position. After that we used a slipknot on the hooves with a long pull rope and tied a rope on the head cover and ONE guy stood on top of the truck cab and pulled both at the same time.....the speed of that buck was amazing...............please use caution, extra caution in these encounter situations.
Ranger Craig (300B)
I've been looking to pick one up and have always got snipered at the last minute.
. Those Elk are wild animals my friend...you should never get that close to them and don't ever turn your back on them. We love you brother and don't want to see any bad judgment photo's of our former Buck brother playing with the bulls. Very cool photo's, but I have seen the not so cool aftermath of such an encounter. 
