Posted on 09/13/2023 8:53:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
Learning from experience. The way it is today is far superior.
People were mostly uneducated back then............
Those people walking across Grand Prismatic are idiots! That whole area has boiling hot springs underneath, and the crust they are walking across could give way at any time. There are signs everywhere… stay on the boardwalk!
Was there this summer, and saw a touron walk up to a buffalo for a selfie!
Morons getting too close to Bison because they foolishly and wrongly equate them as like domestic cows seems to be the biggest tourist issue out there these days.
Those things will grind your butt into the dirt if they take a notion.
So will a domestic cow.................
I live about 20 miles from the park and I can assure you that people today are no better educated about wildlife than they were 100 years ago. In some ways they’re worse.
This is not Disneyland and too many people have to find that out the hard way.
Stupid should hurt......................
This infuriates me, it seems to be happening a lot - the solution will be to fence off areas where the thermal pools are so we'll have to look at them from a far distance - for our own safety, of course.
Idiots that stray off of the CLEARLY designated paths should be arrested, fined and barred from national parks forever.
Didn’t some guy fall into a hot spring and get boiled to death there a couple of years ago?.................
I remember a couple of years ago, some idiots let their little dog out of their car unleashed - the pup stepped in a hot pool, ran and jumped into the big hot pool - the owner jumped in after the dog to save it.
Usually this is terminal idiocy, the pup didn’t survive but the woman did - but with lots and lots of major injuries.
Yes. Has happened in California as well.
“An Oregon man who died in June after falling into a boiling hot spring at Yellowstone National Park was looking for a place to “hot pot,” or soak in warm water, according to a final accident report.”
“3-year-old burned after running off Yellowstone trail, falling into thermal feature”
“23-year-old Colin Nathaniel Scott of Portland, Oregon, walked off the designated boardwalks in Yellowstone’s Norris Geyser Basin and fell into one of the park’s acrid, boiling hot springs. The water, some of the hottest in the park at approximately 199 degrees, likely killed him in a matter of moments.”
“David Kirwan, a 24-year-old from California. On July 20, 1981, his friend’s dog, Moosie, jumped into the Celestine Pool, a 202-degree spring. Kirwan, seeing the dog suffer, prepared to dive in. “Don’t go in there!” a bystander yelled. “Like hell I won’t!” Kirwan replied and dove head first into the water. He died the next morning of his burns.”
A woman, ignoring signs, walked off path, stuck her hand in the hot springs, and was injured earlier this year.
My daughter is currently working as a NPS ranger at Grand Tietons. Yellowstone has the volcanic features and the canyon; the Grand Tietons has the mountains.
Funny you bring that up. I blame Disney for so many having unrealistic appraisals of wildlife behavior. Growing up with Bambi, etc., and lots of Disney-anthropomorphized cartoon critters is a big part of the reason for that. And too few have real interactions with even farm/ranch critters, let alone wild ones. Meat comes from a foam tray at the grocery store, after all.
Outdoor pingie list...
Life was a harsher teacher back then. I really think people had more common sense.
Thanks to beaversmom for the article
Our local park is being overrun with aggressive deer blocking the way and ducks plopping on every surface all thanks to the IGIT dogooders giving regular feedings.
Take down all the signs, stop all the warnings and get rid of any fences or barricades. Let people dance on Old Faithful.
In about 6-18 moths all will be good.
Not a bad idea. It’ll rid us of a lot of Demonrat voters.
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