Yellowstone Workers Fired for Urinating in Old Faithful

Source: Fox News

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.

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run piss run

"Oh, look, there's a plume of boiling water, let's stick our peckers in it"


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In the old days, we'd have had sex while Old Faithful was erupting.

I don't know where we lost our focus, our standards. Kids today lack, what, imagination? Hormones?

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What?

Somebody say something?

God, this chafing is driving me .......... did they bring dinner yet?

Where's my magazine?

I already ate it? Oh. Was it good?

I remember it being the sponsor of Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour back in the '60s, but I haven't heard a peep from it since.

about it because its users generally can't remember if they took their dose this morning or if they even still take it.

Or what it is, for that matter.

Now, what were we talking about?

but I think that's because it was loaded with alcohol:)

Bet there was beer involved.

This is such a magnificent area. I grew up in the Yellowstone/Grand Teton area. My Dad' ashes are scattered up the Gros Ventre river overlooking the Tetons.

After going off trail, they are lucky they didn't get hurt. People have fallen in and been scalded to death from these hot pots.

Anyone who has not visited this area is missing a trip of a life time.

Vacationed there as a kid several times, went through a couple yrs ago again to recheck it out. Beautiful place. I wonder what people thought when they first found it. And, I'd like to see that movie/dvd/documentary/whatever about it erupting again.

These people endangered themselves, and any rescue crew, by leaving the trail

It managed to get out eventually, then collapsed on the soil. I doubt it survived much longer.

during the big big family trip to Yellowstone, their son was boiled alive in front of them.after falling into a hot pool. Niagara Falls is surrounded with safety barriers, and it never occurred to them that any public park would lack such protections.

http://www.yellowstonepark.com/MoreToKnow/ShowNewsDetails.aspx?newsid=41

BTW - tracking this story through Google, no one really knows what happened. The family heard a splash behind them and turned around to see their son in the water. The consensus is that he was blinded by a whiff of steam and slipped or stepped off the boardwalk. There was no railing at the time.

I have old black and white 8MM movies of myself and my sisters skipping along the boardwalks at Yellowstone with steam rising on both sides. Our parents were right there, but all it would have taken was one misstep.

A few years ago our local weatherman almost lost his grandson in an accident there. One young person did die, and his grandson was burned horribly. He survived the initial fall. I am not sure how he has since fared.

Get fired.

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The eruptions have been slacking off because of a lack of "fluid".

And this is what Fox calls news?

One of the dumbest stories I've read about in some time, punctuated with one of the dumbest lines I've seen in a story. Twofer!

... that none of these workers are female.

It would have made for an interesting odor, I'm sure, at the next eruption.

. . . in which a park ranger poured Metamucil or a similar product into a geyser to keep it "regular"? I remember the disclaimer, "Always obey park regulations," that appeared on the bottom of the screen as the flashback of the ranger secretly pouring the stuff into the hole was shown.

Such behavior should not be allowed. If they catch a visitor doing it, they should get a heavy fine and a lifetime ban.

I seem to remember a program awhile back on one of the science/history channels that stated if it erupted again North America would face a catastrophe of monumental proportions. So is it really wise to be pissing into Old Faithful and offending the God/Goddess of Fire? :)

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