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More bad behavior at Yellowstone - man walks off boardwalk and dies in hot spring
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Sounds like the title for a Wes Anderson film.
This happened to another guy at Yellowstone a number of years back. His dog ran into the hotspring and he jumped in to rescue it. The dog died out there, but the guy's friends somehow were able to pull him back on dry land. He complained about not being able to see, and it was because he essentially melted his eyeballs out of their sockets. The guy died in the hospital a few days later due to third degree burns covering 100% of his body.
Really scary stuff and one of the reasons I would refuse to take my dog to Yellowstone. I know she wouldn't hesitate to take a dive without checking first.
Jesus christ
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
This might be the worst way to die
John Kowalski
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I am never visiting Yellowstone in my life, that shit is too dangerous. How can people even take their kids there? I'd die of heart attack just thinking about it.
Hip Hop
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You serious?
John Kowalski
Banned
No, i'm not. I wouldn't die of heart attack just thinking of it. I'd get really sweaty and bothered though.
SchrodingerC
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Typically people don't go frolicking through the boiling, acidic water like jackasses, they follow the rules for their safety.
Even though this horrific incident happened, this is still a rare occurrence.
bodyboarder
Member
And this is why it'll eventually be all fenced off.
LOL. He's talking about the calf.
I laughed and now I feel awful.
TheLegendOfMart
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That fella is someones son, brother, boyfriend, nephew. Everyone does stupid things when they are young and think they are indestructible. Unfortunately this guy paid with his life.
I can't imagine the pain he felt, I hope it was quick.
Miles Quaritch
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Did you jump into a hot spring when you were young or did you have common sense to know that shit was likely dangerous?
If only they had something to prevent people from wandering off the boardwalk like a velvet rope.
I won't be surprised to hear them fence in the path after all these incidents. Or just have a sign reminding visitors the X amount of days since the hot springs consumed a life. Straight up scare people into thinking if they want to reset the counter.
I won't be surprised to hear them fence in the path after all these incidents. Or just have a sign reminding visitors the X amount of days since the hot springs consumed a life. Straight up scare people into thinking if they want to reset the counter.
oneils
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It was already separated from its mother when the tourists found it. It's likely the mother had already rejected it. That's why they brought it to the Rangers, they didn't know what else to do.
Edit: they were crossing a river when the calf was swept away. It managed to get out of the river, but by then it was separated from its mother.
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
No but I've done dumb shit that easily could have killed me when I was younger. He didn't purposely jump into a hot spring, he fell in.
He fell in...after wandering 200 yards off a boardwalk path. And for perspective he was 23.
Sorry, but not everyone is that dumb. Also, he was 23 years old, not 3.
The death in the OP is so stupid it's hard to feel much empathy but this on the other hand is bringing tears to my eyes. Horrible death due to empathy for a pet.
TheLegendOfMart
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Must be nice living in holier than thou land and I can guarantee EVERYONE has done dumb stuff that could have gotten them hurt in the the past.
Sure mate, but nothing that stupid. RIP but it was his own fault.
And they say his family has nothing to remember him by
Aztechnology
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Surely you aren't likening this to something like jumping off a roof into a pool or something.
SaganIsGOAT
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No ragrets
Askherserenity
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Poor bison 
wtf is wrong with people.
And what was this dude thinking? This makes no sense.
wtf is wrong with people.And what was this dude thinking? This makes no sense.
You have a lot of sympathy for the guy, you're a good man with a good heart. But this was on a whole another level of foolishness compared to the usual "dumb shit people do while young". God I hope the guy didn't suffer too much. That is propably a tall order to ask given that he fell into an acidic boil bath though.
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What a way to go. Like a Mortal Kombat stage fatality I imagine.
Robot Carnival
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I go to Yellowstone all the time because of work and these things pisses me off to no end. that thing with the Canadian walking around in Grand Prismatic in the OP was even worse because that's a very populated area and it's a signature location of Yellowstone.
SliceSabre
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Everyone keeps saying water but he wasn't in boiling acidic water.
According to that video with the ranger lady he fell into an acidic boiling mud pot. https://youtu.be/mzcYZ4ZwH10?t=25s
According to that video with the ranger lady he fell into an acidic boiling mud pot. https://youtu.be/mzcYZ4ZwH10?t=25s
You're overreacting. Incidents like these are rare, why punish the vast majority of parkgoers who aren't suicidally stupid?
"Man, 32, falls off the Eiffel Tower"
THAT'S IT LADS, WE NEED TO SHUT DOWN FRANCE, PRONTO.
Zoe
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Signs aren't gonna stop people. Our local trails and bodies of water were closed earlier this week due to floodgates being opened, but news crews parked themselves in front of signs and gates and got footage of people crossing the barriers all day.
Several people have died over the past two weeks because "it looked safe" or "the weather was so nice".
That's absurd. Millions of people visit Yellowstone every year and they don't die because they aren't idiots who wander off trails and boardwalks put there for their own safety.
M.W.
Member
Close the park? Fuck that. If people wanna Darwin, let em Darwin.
Randy Lanzarote
Member
Horrendous way to go.
I'll never forget the story in Bill Bryson's 'A Short History..." of a group of teens who went for a midnight dip in one of the springs at Yellowstone(not all are 200c and highly acidic), lost their bearings and ended up jumping into a boiling pool. None survived.
I'll never forget the story in Bill Bryson's 'A Short History..." of a group of teens who went for a midnight dip in one of the springs at Yellowstone(not all are 200c and highly acidic), lost their bearings and ended up jumping into a boiling pool. None survived.
Oh no.According to the yellowstone website.
He fell into this thing.
I dont think I wanna go swimming in that
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