Clueless Yellowstone visitor runs screaming ‘It’s hot!’ after illegally dipping hand in 174-degree hot spring: wild video

NY Post ^ | 06/30/2023 | Snejana Farberov

[ChicagoConservative27]

Too hot to handle!

A hapless visitor to Yellowstone National Park’s world-famous hot springs got a thermal surprise after dunking her hand in the spring’s steaming-hot waters.

In a video that has gone viral, a man and a woman defy legal restrictions and common sense when they dismount a park boardwalk at Silex Spring on the Fountain Paint Pot Nature Trail in Wyoming.

The pair then scurry down a grassy embankment and approach the 174-degree hydrothermal pool.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Darwin strikes again

[ProudDeplorable]

Too bad she didn’t dunk her head in instead of just her hand. You can’t fix stupid.

[joma89]

FAFO

[dfwgator]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRcs_OzQb14

[V_TWIN]

She’s lucky her fat butt didn’t fall in.......if she had, she’d have really known what hot is.

Stuck on stupid. ✅️

[OttawaFreeper]

When I lived in New Zealand from 1982 to 1984 and we visited the hot springs and bubbling mud area in Rotorua (in about the middle of the North Island), we were warned as kids to keep a safe distance away from the bubbling mud. My Dad had a coworker down there who in turn knew someone who got a little carelessly close to a bubbling mud area and got a very nasty scald/burn from being hit by some of that hot mud. I can’t imagine the consequences of this person’s stupidity in this instance.

[alloysteel]

“Darwin strikes again”

Unh, no, this person was not necessarily removed from the gene pool. But this is a stark reminder that nobody has the time to make all the mistakes themselves. Sometimes it is possible to learn from the mistakes of others.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Are people getting dumber or are we just hearing about them more often?

[nuconvert]

There are signs along the way warning people to stay on the boardwalk, that they can receive severe burns. The paint pots are bubbling hot mud like something cooking on your stove. DUH

[Tax-chick]

Mostly the latter, but also, if the percentage of dumb remains the same while the population increases, the gross incidence of dumb also increases.

[drwoof]

Perhaps its because of more of the latter (’social’ media, etc.) that we are seeing more of the former... (’Wait ‘til everyone sees me on the inter web!’)

[Mark17]

Are people getting dumber or are we just hearing about them more often?

I don’t know, maybe both.

[Sicon]

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.

[Mark17]

Are people getting dumber or are we just hearing about them more often?

I don’t know, maybe both.

[BobL]

We used to cook eggs in those hot springs...wouldn’t stick my hand in one.

[JubJub]

I dunno, it works for me.

[Jonty30]

Maybe the park should think about warning visitors by putting out some signage. Sarc.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Send her back with a free ticket and maybe she can be culled taking a selfie with a grizzly or trying to pet a bison.

[Brandonmark]

Biden-Harris voter!

[EQAndyBuzz]

I’m waiting for the impending lawsuit.