Posted on 11/17/2022 9:14:11 AM PST by BenLurkin
DNA testing has identified the person whose partial foot was seen floating in Yellowstone National Park’s Abyss Pool this summer.
Three months after the shoe-clad foot was spotted in the West Thumb Geyser Basin, National Park Service officials said the foot was that of 70-year-old Il Hun Ro, officials said Thursday in a news release.
His family has been notified.
The Abyss Pool is one of the park’s deepest and is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit. It was temporarily closed when Ro’s foot was found, though it has since reopened
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Does LA Man know his foot has been missing?
Sounds like good footing for a shoe commercial. These shoes can really take a beating....
well done,,,
Go to your room; both of you.
Did it belong to Achilles?
Didn’t know the “airspeed velocity” of an unladen swallow?
His last word was: “Too hot in the hot tub” yeeeeooooww!
Subduction zone goes farther that I thought I guess.
We were at Yellowstone with are three little kids. (2 to 5) I loved watching them playing in the river and climbing boulder fields. But out on those boardwalks at the pools I made them hold our hands - one slip....
What a horrible way to go. Puts me in mind of an episode of the Tudors, when the cook put poison in priests stew. Henry sentenced him to be boiled to death. Made the mistake of not closing my eyes. What is seen can not be unseen.
You’d think Mr. I’ll would have mentioned the missing foot and all.
African or European
...or killed by the legendary black beast of....arrrggghhh
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