Posted on 05/15/2009 12:12:26 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh
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 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 centre 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.
Xanterra Parks & Resorts general manager Jim McCaleb says the former concession workers were hired at the Old Faithful Inn and such incidents are rare.
Been to Old Faithful twice. These idiots are lucky the ground held under their feet. You don’t walk around any of those geysers. Way too unstable. Morons.
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