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Yellowstone Park accident victim dissolved in boiling acidic pool
- kinkrtyavimoodh 10y agoThis reminds me of a related incident that happened in May 2016 when a bunch of people walked off the boardwalk at the Grand Prismatic Spring [1]. A lot of people have a very cavalier attitude about this stuff. They'll deliberately walk off the track, ignore prominently displayed warnings, feed wildlife... basically do the opposite of what has been instructed. And worse, make you feel stupid for following the rules. In some cases, they are only hurting nature, in others, they are literally jeopardizing their own safety. [1] http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/online-filmmakers-venture-off-boardwalk-at-grand-prismatic-spring-in/article_07bbbeb5-4364-56b1-a834-5ef232133761.html http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/online-filmmakers-...
- __derek__ 10y ago> In some cases, they are only hurting nature, in others, they are literally jeopardizing their own safety. I find that phrasing odd. The former is much more serious than the latter. Feeding wildlife, for example, is an excellent way to ensure negative interactions with humans in the future. By disobeying posted rules, these people are putting others' lives in danger in addition to damaging the animals.
- wccrawford 10y agoI think he phrased it that way because most people are much more concerned with their own well-being than with others'. As such, you'd think they'd at least take care because of that, but they clearly aren't.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 10y agoYou got it. Of course, we should obey these instructions for the greater good (of nature, of others etc.) but when you are with the kind who can barely watch out for their own safety and well-being, it's hard to convince them out of their own stupidity.
- cpncrunch 10y agoSeems more like a Darwin award rather than an "accident" (as a bad outcome should be fairly predictable when you do something like this). I'd also be worried about the high temperatures.
- diafygi 10y agoIceland had some pretty clever warnings for their geysers that iterate multiple times, "no really, it will burn you." https://innovationonearth.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/warning-sign.png https://innovationonearth.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/warnin...
- dr_radiaki 10y agoThey kinda bury the lede on that one.
- lsaferite 10y agoYeah, I kinda think the distance to the nearest hospital should be the first and last in the list.
- fred_is_fred 10y agoWarnings don't apply to the Instagram generation. This one of many incidents of people filming themselves doing something stupid in Yellowstone.
- slavik81 10y agoThere are many instances of people doing stupid things at Yellowstone that long predate Instagram. http://www.yellowstonepark.com/cautionary-tale/ http://www.yellowstonepark.com/cautionary-tale/
- joezydeco 10y agoThe book by Whittlesey mentioned in the article is an interesting read.
- gozur88 10y agoThe problem is this is the first generation to grow up with warnings about swallowing cutlery and bathing in battery acid. If you're bombarded with stupid warnings you get into the habit of tuning them all out. I once worked on a military base where every door and wall was festooned with warnings and prohibitions. Don't do this, don't do that. No running. No walking on the grass. No talking about classified information. Warning: wet floors are slippery. Etc, etc. A few years after I started there about 98% of the warnings were removed. They'd done some research and realized nobody was going to read that blizzard of signs, particularly when the most obvious ones were prohibitions against things only morons would do anyway. It worked, too - you notice a big red sign when it's the only one on the door.
- notadoc 10y agoTerrible story. What are the odds the underlying motivation was a selfie or glamour shot for social media?