"Gawd, what a gruesome way to die."
Posted on 08/15/2022 8:11:23 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A Florida man who filmed himself walking on hot thermals in Yellowstone National Park earlier this month has been officially cited for a violation of federal law and ordered to appear in-person at the U.S. District Court in Yellowstone on July 27.
Matt Manzari, who told Cowboy State Daily that he created the video as a joke, broke the law by leaving the park’s boardwalk and walking on the thermal features near Old Faithful on July 1.
As has been customary in these cases, the defendant must appear in court in-person.
The motivational speaker from Clermont, Florida, previously told Cowboy State Daily, that he would not fight the charge.
“My statement is absolute remorse and apologies for everything,” Manzari said on July 3. “Regardless of the backlash, like if I knew that it could be damaging to the ecosystem and if I knew it could be damaging to the park, I wouldn’t have done it. I was 100% not trying to be disrespectful.”
Sentencing
Jail time is frequently applied to cases like this. Last year, a Connecticut woman was sentenced to seven days in jail, fined $2,000, and banned from Yellowstone for two years after tourists captured video of her walking on thermal features in the Norris Geyser Basin.
In 2020, two men served time in jail, were fined hundreds of dollars and were also banned from the park after leaving the boardwalk and attempted to cook a chicken in Shoshone Geyser Basin.
Others paid a more severe penalty after leaving the path and falling through the fragile ground. One man’s body dissolved in the hot springs in 2016 and an Idaho woman suffered burns on 91 percent of her body after trying to rescue her dog last year.
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"Gawd, what a gruesome way to die."
The signs might be more effective if they showed before and after photos of people who fell through the crust and got steamed or boiled.
Florida man is a guy who moved down south from New York.
If no social media existed, would he have done it?
I remember that. He was a high school grad. Nothing left but his flip flops.
Federal laws are invalid? All of them?
Only the ones that are unconstitutional. (See U.S. Const., Art. VI, Cl 2).
At this point, MOST federal laws are unconstitutional.
The idiot should be sent to a hospital for a brain scan to see if his is functioning. There are plenty of warning signs including stories of those who perished. If you want to see stupidity, just go to a national park and observe the morons. The morons are much easier to spot than the wildlife!
Check out what happened to him before all this.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/us-news/2165610/skin-melted-to-my-bones-zapped-14000-volts/
Couple of gruesome pics, but he lived.
Good point. Very unlikely. Social media has become a boon in the sense that the Darwin Awards are at an all time high. Improving the gene pool.
So what happened 07-27-2022?
BFD.
Those features aren’t much more than half a million years old (IIRC) and the next (impending) supervolcanic eruption will erase them completely.
“But he’s destroying the ecosystem” whine the anti-human league environazis.
And the largest man-made structure on the planet, the great wall of CHY-nah, is rivaled only by dams built over centuries by beaver up in Canuckistan both visible by the naked eye from low earth orbit..
One high-level X-class CME will cleanse the planet of man’s and beaver’s sins.
Gaia will be pleased.
Heh-heh.
He should be a spokesmouth for Jolt Cola!
From hot feet
To the hot seat!
And for the record, if you're on a high fat-low carb diet I'd make a perfect broth.
You might be a redneck...
Sounds like he is hot water…
There are abundant signs around all of the thermal features about sticking to the boardwalk.
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You wouldn’t think one would need signs to remind people that boiling acidic water is dangerous, but then there’s Florida Man to prove otherwise.
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