Uh, I would disagree that dissolution was on his agenda, I believe he wanted to Hot Dip. I guess he did get his wish, it was a pretty "hot dip"....

Yes he did dissolve... but he did it slowly and carefully, on his own terms.

Probably a hazard at any heated springs site, since sulfur dioxide is a component found at most volcanic sites and they are mutually connected. Would have learned that in a science class if they both had one and paid attention.

We have equally dangerous hot springs at our local national park (Lassen) as well as the areas east of us, and there are still people who get themselves into "trouble", if you consider being boiled alive in sulfuric acid or being poisoned/suffocated in a Sulfur Dioxide burp cloud trouble. Strangely, the international tourists (for the most part) realize the danger and follow the signs... it's the idiot children from the local urban areas (who know better than "us dumb hicks" and "those fraidy cat tourists") who end up with pretty intense memories of what NOT to do around a volcanic hot spring. Sometimes VERY short term memories...

Sucks having to suit up to remove the corpses... not a job I would particularly relish...

Well, it looks like we at least have a snowflake filter....

I'm with you mminnick! Darwin Award! I also have the book mentioned below, and I think we need to take down all the railings in Yellowstone. If the ignorant and arrogant want to die there, it is a beautiful place to go. As the "I & A" bodies pile up the illiterate might even get the idea :-))

Make America great again...send a libtard to Yellowstone Park.

We have the winner of this year's Darwin Award!

I get having the video as evidence, but not the phone or the original, unless they just kept the phone.
Once done with the prosecution, the phone should go back.

Don't tell the global warming Snowflakes that. They will be so upset that they will have to go to their safe spaces

The manifestation of what may be the largest volcano in the world. But like Queen Elizabeth, it should be treated with respect, but not pandered to.

global warming that began thousands of years ago, long before industrialization.

I have that book, too or one like it. How many ways to horribly die in Yellowstone. Another way is to be forcibly disarmed in a UN Heritage site and then try and get yourself in a selfie with a grizzly bear that has no fear of humans because they are not shot at.

I'm sure he'll be casting his Dem votes for the next 2 or 3 elections, at least :P

We went to Yellowstone when my kids were little. We were awestruck at the beauty and underlying danger of the place. This guy was no more sensible than someone standing over Old Faithful in order to let the hot water shoot up his pants. I just hope that some silly safe-place snowflake doesn't get the idea that all the "dangerous" places in this world-wonder should be closed off and starts demonstrations.

Hmm...I'm thinkin...road trip to yellowstone for hiltery, sorass, obobo and gang?

Why not kill a thousand demon-birds with one visit to yellowstone.

They probably arrested the sister, searched her phone and confiscated the video as evidence. A reason to use a streaming apps to capture videos to a secure location and to password lock your phone. That way you always have a copy if an overzealous officer decides they have the right to steal or erase it.

To be more precise, there have been hundreds of cases. I have a book that is just about these hazards of Yellowstone. The book starts with a story about two guys who were traveling cross country with one of their dogs and stopped to take a break. Well, they didn't have a leash for the dog, so they open the windows a bit and left the dog in the car. After a short time walking the boardwalks, they heard a yelp and saw that the dog had gotten out of the car and made a beeline towards them across a small pool of hotspring water. One of the men ran to the edge of the pool and started to remove his shoes, all the while people were telling and trying to get him to stop. Needless to say he did the stupid thing and dived in to rescue the dog. He grabbed hold of it and started to move back to the shore, but he the pain became too much and he drop its dead corpse before attempting to get to the edge. He got to within arms reach and his friend (who ended up with scalded feet) and other pulled him out. His eyes were white and much of his exposed skin was sloofing off. They said his clothes were in essence keeping him intact. The park employees wrapped him in gauze with lots of saline and called for a medicopter to take him to a burn center. He lived for about 2 more days. The dog was never retrieved, but eventually dissolved after a few weeks. Believe me, I only got to about the middle of the fourth chapter, before I had to stop reading because the two stories related (mine and the topic poster) are tame compared to some horrors that have happened.

Me dino never heard of Yellowstone being a hot springs resort where one goes for a good healthy soak.
Such places do not have a warning sign before it but do have the reassuring sight of people there already bobbing around in the water.
Maybe someday we will read about a Darwin Award who thought it a good idea to take a shower beneath some boiling hot geyser like Old Faithful.

Sign against leaving the path... not illegal, just undocumented ;<}

Of course it's not his fault for falling in. Let's see acid and very hot water. So we have another innocent victim of global warming.

One more moron out of the gene pool.

Darwin Awards...confirmed.

I wonder what the molarity (ph) was.

Note that the Park Service refuses to release the video. Why does the Park Service control a video from a personal cell phone?

Indeed, this is a contender for the Annual Award for Best Effort on an Amateurs Part.

Wait until the screaming starts for a "safe space" in Yellowstone. I could got for a clear plastic cube with a picnic table, and then have them in there with lunch baskets and let Yogi Bear in every hour, just for fun...that's safe...isn't it?