“Police said the child strayed beyond safety barriers...”
Maybe the safety barriers are there for a reason. I wonder what that reason could be?
Didn’t that happen to a young man at Yellowstone a few years ago?
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Hey, no need to drag this family through the mud.
We’ve already got enough dirt on them.
They have safety barriers in Yellowstone, and marked paths at Kilauea. A remarkable coincidence ...
Sad, but they were an entire family of Darwin Award candidates. I hope they had each accepted Jesus as their savior at some point in their life.
An 11 year old is still a kid. There are so many man-made amusement parks and thrill parks that have rides, etc that pretend to be dangerous - like Universal Studios - but it’s fake and everybody gets off the ride and go for ice-cream.
This place is not all jazzed up, because it’s just showing one natural thing - some holes in the ground and lot of sulfur. It was out of his realm of experience and it doesn’t bubble up at all times, it doesn’t show itself for what it is - only someone a lot older could possibly extrapolate what the big deal is with Sulfatara.
I do remember the strong sulfurous gases there when I visited there many decades ago. It was unlike anything in my life’s repertoire. For the kid? Not every kid - or adult - will fully understand how hot hot can be? How could he realize that the earth is soft and could suck him down?
Maybe the fact that the hole didn’t look like much was way he decided to go closer and see what the big deal was.
There should be better barriers, because some people don’t see well, others are mentally challenged, developmentally challenged, etc.