How dumb do you have to be to take a piss on Old Faithful?

[GOPisEvil]

2 Yellowstone workers fired after watering geyser
By BOB MOEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Two seasonal Yellowstone National Park concession workers have been fired after a live webcam caught them urinating into the Old Faithful geyser.

Park spokesman Al Nash says a 23-year-old man on Tuesday was fined $750 and placed on three years of unsupervised probation for urinating, being off trail in a restricted area and taking items from the area. The man also was banned from Yellowstone for two years.

The second employee's case is pending.

The park's dispatch center was called after someone watching a webcam on the geyser saw six employees leaving the trail and walking on Old Faithful on May 4.

The geyser was not erupting at the time.

Xanterra Parks & Resorts general manager Jim McCaleb says the former concession workers were hired at the Old Faithful Inn and that such incidents were rare.

[Inchworm]

1. Hehe.. I love it

:D

[Jamastiene]

2. "The geyser was not erupting at the time."

:spray:

If it was, they would have been in for the shock of their lives. :rofl:

[mamaleah]

3. Ick

Do they not have facilities anywhere?

I swear men just love urinating outside because they can.

[orestes]

11. You only say that

because women can't write their names in the snow without some serious acrobatics ;)

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. when ya gotta go

ya gotta go

just one more case of lack of respect for nature

[Haole Girl]

5. That's just stupid

There are bathrooms close to that, if I remember. Of course, I haven't been there in a long time.

[Deja Q]

6. Ever heard of the phrase "takes the piss"? I don't think I can use it in relation to this article.

I know, that takes the piss... :(

[Lars39]

7. It's not the actual pissing, it's getting off the trail

that gets me. Some of my earliest childhood memories are from being on the boardwalk scared half to death to step off. :scared:

[Richard Steele]

8. Betcha a nickel they thought B*sh was a great President- THAT'S how dumb. nm

[Orrex]

9. Perhaps they hadn't read this cautionary tale

It is a mystery why anyone would dive head first into a Yellowstone hot spring merely to save a dog, but that is precisely what happened on July 20, 1981. David Allen Kirwan, 24, of La Canada, California and his friend Ronald Ratliff, 25, of Thousand Oaks, parked their truck at Yellowstone's Fountain Pain Pot parking lot at around one o'clock that afternoon. While the men looked at the hot springs, Ratliff's dog "Moosie," a large mastiff or great dane, escaped from the vehicle and jumped into nearby Celestine Pool, a hot spring later measured at 202 degrees F. The dog began yelping, and someone nearby quipped, "Oh, look, the poor thing!" Kirwan and Ratliff rushed to the spring and stood on the edge of it. Ratliff and another bystander both saw that Kirwan was preparing to go into the spring, and the bystander yelled, "Don't go in there!" Kirwan yelled back, "Like hell I won't!". Several more people yelled not to go in, but Kirwan took two steps into the pool then dove head first into the boiling water. One witness described it as a flying, swimming-pool-type dive. Visitor Earl Welch of Anniston, Alabama, saw Kirwan actually swim to the dog and attempt to take it to shore, go completely under water again, then release the dog, and begin trying to climb out. Ronald Ratliff pulled Kirwan from the spring, sustaining second degree burns to his feet. Welch saw Kirwan appear to stagger backwards, so the visitor hastened to him and said, "Give me your hand." Kirwan offered his hand, and Welch directed, "Come to the sidewalk." As they moved slowly toward the walk, Kirwan managed to say, "That was stupid. How bad am I?" Welch tried to reassure him, and before they reached the walkway Kirwan again spoke softly, "That was a stupid thing I did." Welch was suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that he walking with a corpse. He could see that Kirwan's entire body was badly burned as the skin was already peeling off. It seemed to Welch that Kirwan was blind, for his eyes appeared totally white. Another man ran up, began to remove one of Kirwan's shoes, and the men watched horrified as the skin came off with it. "Don't do that!" said Welch, and Kirwan responded very tiredly, "It doesn't matter." Near the spring, rangers found two large pieces of skin shaped like human hands. Kirwan experienced third degree burns over one hundred per cent of his body, including his entire head. He was taken to the clinic at Old Faithful, where a burn specialist who was coincidentally on duty could do little for him other than to pump in IV fluids at a high rate. Bob Carnes, a ranger who saw him at the clinic, remembers thinking that Kirwan did not have a chance for survival. "He was blind and most of his skin was coming off." Ratliff's dog died in the pool and was not rescued. Oils from its body later made the hot spring have small eruptions. Kirwan died the following morning in a Salt Lake City hospital. In the men's truck, rangers found the park's warning literature and pamphlets. Kirwan and Ratliff had not read any of them.

from The Morbid Fact du Jour Archive

[dugaresa]

12. i was there a few years ago with the family and we stayed on the

walkways and there were points where the fumes were enough to nauseate me around some of the pools and geysers.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

10. Brings to mind a variation

of the joke where two guys take a leak off the Golden Gate bridge. As they are pissing one says 'boy that water's cold'.........the other guy says 'yeah and deep too'
:applause: