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Post by rockymtblue2 on Jun 8, 2016 15:15:49 GMT -5
Strange year getting weirder. Two days ago a dad and a kid decided to take a stroll off a boardwalk in a "hot zone": net result kid has burns serious enough to get medevacted and dad does a John Wayne and declines treatment on his burns from pulling the kid out of scald zone. Yesterday a dumb 25+ guy decides he's tough enough to get close to a male buffalo ... he loses, quickly. Same day, a guy wanders of the boardwalk in another hot zone and is spotted falling into a 198+ degree on a good or bad day depending on your perspective direct connection to the earth's core - pheew - and disappears. Poof. Gone.
Now news heads are talking about limited guided tours in the first and greatest Nat'l Park in the world!!! Gimme a break . We have to allow some survival of the fittest... as in anybody but the most stupid ... kind of thing to keep nudging the gene pool now and then.
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Post by chicagogg on Jun 8, 2016 15:29:59 GMT -5
Natural selection at its finest....
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Post by pinotbear on Jun 8, 2016 15:58:29 GMT -5
Yeah, to quote Tom Lehrer, I think, "I see the outpatients are here, in force..". As I noted previously, I witnessed just this sort of behavior in the park in September 2014. In that case, the offenders were Pacific Rim tourists that I did not hear speaking English, which raises the question of, can they even read the signs warning against such behavior? And, if they can't, why aren't they being chaperoned by somebody who can? All in search of a better, cooler picture to post on social media, I thought at the time.
But, sometimes, it comes down to this:
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Post by UConnChapette on Jun 8, 2016 19:47:59 GMT -5
Strange year getting weirder. Two days ago a dad and a kid decided to take a stroll off a boardwalk in a "hot zone": net result kid has burns serious enough to get medevacted and dad does a John Wayne and declines treatment on his burns from pulling the kid out of scald zone. Yesterday a dumb 25+ guy decides he's tough enough to get close to a male buffalo ... he loses, quickly. Same day, a guy wanders of the boardwalk in another hot zone and is spotted falling into a 198+ degree on a good or bad day depending on your perspective direct connection to the earth's core - pheew - and disappears. Poof. Gone. Now news heads are talking about limited guided tours in the first and greatest Nat'l Park in the world!!! Gimme a break . We have to allow some survival of the fittest... as in anybody but the most stupid ... kind of thing to keep nudging the gene pool now and then. All contenders for the 2016 Darwin Awards. Natural selection at its finest.... |
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Jun 9, 2016 10:16:10 GMT -5
Two young men from abroad caught walking in hot zone yesterday, spoke accented English and aknowledged the signs "but didn't think they were serious", "not that big a deal". They were fined but clearly were enjoying their 15 seconds on news camera.
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Post by meyers7 on Jun 17, 2016 7:39:14 GMT -5
Strange year getting weirder. Two days ago a dad and a kid decided to take a stroll off a boardwalk in a "hot zone": net result kid has burns serious enough to get medevacted and dad does a John Wayne and declines treatment on his burns from pulling the kid out of scald zone. Yesterday a dumb 25+ guy decides he's tough enough to get close to a male buffalo ... he loses, quickly. Same day, a guy wanders of the boardwalk in another hot zone and is spotted falling into a 198+ degree on a good or bad day depending on your perspective direct connection to the earth's core - pheew - and disappears. Poof. Gone. Now news heads are talking about limited guided tours in the first and greatest Nat'l Park in the world!!! Gimme a break . We have to allow some survival of the fittest... as in anybody but the most stupid ... kind of thing to keep nudging the gene pool now and then. Sounds to me like we need to send more people to Yellowstone, then out the herd some. |
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Jun 17, 2016 8:47:52 GMT -5
Latest episode involves a man from China who walked on and broke up thermal crust around Grand Prismatic Spring to get water "for medicinal purposes". Fined $1000 and court costs of $35.
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Post by meyers7 on Jun 24, 2016 12:10:43 GMT -5
Latest episode involves a man from China who walked on and broke up thermal crust around Grand Prismatic Spring to get water "for medicinal purposes". Fined $1000 and court costs of $35. Expensive water. |
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Jun 24, 2016 16:03:53 GMT -5
Latest episode involves a man from China who walked on and broke up thermal crust around Grand Prismatic Spring to get water "for medicinal purposes". Fined $1000 and court costs of $35. Expensive water. Punishment should have included high colonic with it. |
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