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Yellowstone NP visitor presumed dead after falling into hot spring
krtv ^ | June 7, 2016 | Aja Goare

Posted on 06/08/2016 9:15:29 AM PDT by bgill

Reid said the man is presumed dead because he has yet to be found, "the recovery process is very difficult because of the hazards of the environment,” said Reid.

Reid said the man is in his 20s, but she would not identify the man or where he is from. The man reportedly walked about 225 yards off the board walk before falling in to the hot spring.

The springs are known to reach temperatures that would be deadly to humans on contact.

(Excerpt) Read more at krtv.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: death; geyser; yellowstone
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To: bgill

Sir sir sir. You have gotten yourself into hot water.


21 posted on 06/08/2016 9:41:53 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: bgill

Suicide by geyser.


22 posted on 06/08/2016 9:41:54 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: bgill

Suicide by geyser.


23 posted on 06/08/2016 9:41:54 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: bgill

He was a good egg!


24 posted on 06/08/2016 9:42:29 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: bigbob

“If hot sulphurous bubbling boiling mud isn’t enough to convince you to stay on the boardwalk, nothing is. Suicide, and perhaps Darwin.”

Maybe trying to impress a girl.


25 posted on 06/08/2016 9:44:28 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the War on White People, is to recognize it exists.)
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To: Seruzawa

No need for a crane or body recovery since the body no longer exist.


26 posted on 06/08/2016 9:45:39 AM PDT by martinidon
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To: dayglored; babble-on
Intentional suicide.

Not necessarily. In the '80s, I did Rotorua, NZ tours with the then-wife. The usual warnings, stay on the path, etc., and they added that a few months back, an American geologist that knew better, still had to get a closer look, and slipped up to his waist in something or another.

He survived, and was still in the hospital.

27 posted on 06/08/2016 9:47:18 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: bgill

Why would I suspect the involvement of some hand-held digital device in this par-boiled episode? I wonder...


28 posted on 06/08/2016 9:47:49 AM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: HiTech RedNeck
His name must now be Stew.

LOL...winner!

29 posted on 06/08/2016 9:47:49 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: dayglored

He got off the boardwalk and walked 225 yards — over TWICE the length of a football field

Anyone else read that in Morgan Freeman’s voice.


30 posted on 06/08/2016 9:49:46 AM PDT by pas
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To: babble-on
I have to admit a morbid curiosity to know more about the deceased.

Ever put a rack of ribs in a crockpot for a half day? Meat falls right off the bone. They may pull a skull and femur out, but that's about it.

31 posted on 06/08/2016 9:52:59 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
A friend of mine said one of her first memories was being at Yellowstone maybe sixty five years ago, when a family opened the car door and a little boy took off in a run to the spring, and jumped in. By the time they got rangers there to get him out, they had to use a net as the meat was falling off the boy’s bones.


32 posted on 06/08/2016 9:53:14 AM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: bgill

The bison gettin’ even?


33 posted on 06/08/2016 9:54:46 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Calvin Locke

Almost at the brink of the huge Yellowstone waterfall there are some large boulders spaced out in the fast moving river just before it plunges a few hundred feet.

I have lovely photos of a young couple sunning themselves on one of those boulders in the middle of the river.

I have to admit I also sat for a photo on a small rock ledge hundreds of feet above Lake Yellowstone.

And I had more than one moose charge me.

The rock ledge in particular scares me just thinking about it.


34 posted on 06/08/2016 9:55:46 AM PDT by Williams (Dear God please save us from the democrats. And the republicans.)
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To: bigbob

VERY inventive way of killing yourself, I have to admit.

Guns, nooses, pills..so old hat.


35 posted on 06/08/2016 10:01:20 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: bgill

I think it was the guy who set up Hillary’s email server.


36 posted on 06/08/2016 10:02:44 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: bgill

There are a lot of German tourists at national parks. When we were at Yosemite, we saw some drinking water out of the streams. I always wondered how they felt when they got home...


37 posted on 06/08/2016 10:05:46 AM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: Williams

Google “the devil’s pool”. It’s a safe swimming hole at the brink of Victoria Falls. The very brink.


38 posted on 06/08/2016 10:10:32 AM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: bgill

If Yellowstone park was owned by a private individual and they opened it up to tourist the federal government would impose so many restriction on it they would go out of business.

Yellowstone is a very dangerous place, what with free roaming bison, and the various hot springs and not to even mention it is a volcano.

It is a beautiful place but you can get hurt or killed very easy.


39 posted on 06/08/2016 10:13:30 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (The government is the problem, not the solution.)
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To: ArtDodger
He was a good egg!


40 posted on 06/08/2016 10:14:16 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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