Man dead from falling in Yellowstone hot spring

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/07/travel/yellowstone-geyser-man-falls-trnd/
I think that he is solely responsible for his death but the media is probably going to treat him very well

 

[millais]

Walking 200 m away from the designated path puts this squarely in Darwin Awards territory. I don't think there's anything terribly wrong with stretching the rules and walking maybe 10 or even 20 m away from a designated trail in a dangerous area, but 200 m is just asking for it.

Too bad for his family that they cannot have an open casket funeral. Guy probably doesn't look too good after being boiled to death in near 100 centigrade water.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

I don't think there's anything terribly wrong with stretching the rules and walking maybe 10 or even 20 m away from a designated trail in a dangerous area

Actually there are some places that are so unstable that just putting pressure on the ground is enough to result in a potential collapse. Those places have obvious suspension bridge type walkways though

 

[Coldgrip]

Walking 200 m away from the designated path puts this squarely in Darwin Awards territory. I don't think there's anything terribly wrong with stretching the rules and walking maybe 10 or even 20 m away from a designated trail in a dangerous area, but 200 m is just asking for it.

Eh, there's plenty of people that wander off the beaten path and don't die. Of course they know what they're doing and aware of their surroundings.

Do we know if this guy had a history of wandering off? I've heard of more than a few people who were habitual rule breakers when it came to park boundaries that eventually wound up winning a Darwin Award.

 

[melty]

This isn't nearly as interesting as the guy who died last week after being stung by over a thousand bees. I still want to hear more about that.

 

[AnOminous]

This isn't nearly as interesting as the guy who died last week after being stung by over a thousand bees. I still want to hear more about that.

If you're being stung by a thousand bees maybe you should consider going somewhere else or diving in some water or something.

 

[melty]

If you're being stung by a thousand bees maybe you should consider going somewhere else or diving in some water or something.

What if that's what happened to the yellowstone guy? Maybe he panicked and looked for the first water but it was a geyser instead.

 

[Kazami Yuuka]

Walking 200 m away from the designated path puts this squarely in Darwin Awards territory. I don't think there's anything terribly wrong with stretching the rules and walking maybe 10 or even 20 m away from a designated trail in a dangerous area, but 200 m is just asking for it.

Too bad for his family that they cannot have an open casket funeral. Guy probably doesn't look too good after being boiled to death in near 100 centigrade water.

You'd be amazed at what a mortician can pull off. Even some of the worst car crashes can still have an open casket funeral.

If you're being stung by a thousand bees maybe you should consider going somewhere else or diving in some water or something.

Bees are actually smart enough to swarm you when you come up for air. Water is a pretty bad call.

Anyways, this is yet another file for things not to do while touring, including gorilla parents and buffalo-in-car lady.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

And now he's swimming in hot water and going into the mist...these are terrible puns I know.

 

[Pikimon]

Some people should really stay away from Mother Nature.

 

[Hypodermic Johnny]

Someone clearly never read Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted. One of the short stories in that book described this EXACT thing happening.

...it really isn't a pretty end. Water's hot enough that even if you manage to get out of it without dying; your skin's so badly burnt/fried (think the skin peel from a bad sunburn ramped up a billion) until it basically just starts peeling off and sticking to things. Stay in long enough and you're basically turned to soup.

So yeah. Someone get him the BIG Darwin Award trophy.

 

[RP 520]

Guy probably doesn't look too good after being boiled to death in near 100 centigrade water.

Someone clearly never read Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted. One of the short stories in that book described this EXACT thing happening.

...it really isn't a pretty end. Water's hot enough that even if you manage to get out of it without dying; your skin's so badly burnt/fried (think the skin peel from a bad sunburn ramped up a billion) until it basically just starts peeling off and sticking to things. Stay in long enough and you're basically turned to soup.

So yeah. Someone get him the BIG Darwin Award trophy.

Yeah, boiling bodies for a long period of time is how they prepare/make medical demonstration skeletons. My guess is the clean up personnel and police waited to retrieve the body so the soft tissue is all boiled off and evaporated, then retrieve the skeleton and hand it over to the funeral home and family.

Very sad and nasty, but as it's already been said the guy was asking for it. They say not to venture off the paths at Yellowstone, and there's a reason for it. Between this and the people that kidnapped a buffalo calf and drove it around the park, it seems like there's always people doing stupid dangerous shit there. They're probably going to have to increase security to protect the tourists from themselves.

 

[Cosmos]

Someone clearly never read Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted. One of the short stories in that book described this EXACT thing happening.

...it really isn't a pretty end. Water's hot enough that even if you manage to get out of it without dying; your skin's so badly burnt/fried (think the skin peel from a bad sunburn ramped up a billion) until it basically just starts peeling off and sticking to things. Stay in long enough and you're basically turned to soup.

So yeah. Someone get him the BIG Darwin Award trophy.

That Palahniuk story was actually inspired by a similar case to this one. In 1981, David Allen Kirwan jumped into a thermal spring to save his friend's dog, Moosie, who had gotten loose and jumped into the spring. Both he and Moosie died. Maybe I'm just speaking as a dog lover, but I can understand Kirwan's death better than this recent one.

 

[millais]

Turns out the authorities can't recover this guy's body. The temperature and acidity of the pool is too great for rescue workers to safely fish out any remains.

 

[AnOminous]

You'd be amazed at what a mortician can pull off. Even some of the worst car crashes can still have an open casket funeral.

There's not much you can do with a literal nothing but a skeleton, and not even a skeleton but a bunch of disconnected bones because the connective tissue dissolves, too.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

There's not much you can do with a literal nothing but a skeleton, and not even a skeleton but a bunch of disconnected bones because the connective tissue dissolves, too.

The bones themselves probably won't be in particularly good shape after this either

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

There's not much you can do with a literal nothing but a skeleton, and not even a skeleton but a bunch of disconnected bones because the connective tissue dissolves, too.

But but we have TECHNOLOGY

 

[DangerousGas]

There's not much you can do with a literal nothing but a skeleton, and not even a skeleton but a bunch of disconnected bones because the connective tissue dissolves, too.

You can make a pretty decent stock with them, but that's about it.

 

[Sailor_Jupiter]

You can make a pretty decent stock with them, but that's about it.

Ouch, that's harsh!

 

[Coldgrip]

Ouch, that's harsh!

Let it simmer a little while longer then, it'll take out some of the bite.