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Iceland had some pretty clever warnings for their geysers that iterate multiple times, "no really, it will burn you." https://innovationonearth.files.wordpress

• dr_radiaki 10y ago
  They kinda bury the lede on that one.
  • lsaferite 10y ago
    Yeah, I kinda think the distance to the nearest hospital should be the first and last in the list.
• fred_is_fred 10y ago
  Warnings don't apply to the Instagram generation. This one of many incidents of people filming themselves doing something stupid in Yellowstone.
  • slavik81 10y ago
    There 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 ago
      The book by Whittlesey mentioned in the article is an interesting read.
  • gozur88 10y ago
    The 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.