Man who fell into Yellowstone hot springs completely dissolved

[Tricia]

This story is direct to you from the "You can't make this stuff up" part of the world we live in.

I especially like the quotes from this article like -

• ...science has confirmed that death is really quite bad for your health.
• Although incidents like this are clearly quite tragic, they’re also a testament to the incredibly daft lengths people go to show off to someone, be “brave”, or – in this case – have a very unique bath.
• ...surrounded by a bunch of quite prominent warning signs for a really, really, really good reason.(more than one really, really?)
  
• Are you a microscopic, extremophilic lifeform? No, we didn’t think so. So stay the hell back,
• ...they found that nothing of the man remained – except his wallet and his flip flops. (what the heck were his flip flops and wallet made of?

Condolences to his family, but "you really can't make this stuff up."

 

[SShore]

Living very close to the Park, so we get to visit several times a year. It never ceases to amaze me how many stupid people do stupid things with signage everywhere warning them not to do said stupid things. You can cure a lot of things, but you can't cure stupid.

 

[AmyPJ]

Breaking Bad comes to mind.

 

[scott43]

Condolences to his family, but "you really can't make this stuff up."

I follow the Toronto Police Service Twitter feed..you can't make that stuff up either.."Naked man with machete chasing people in traffic." 2 minutes later "Correction, he has socks on."

 

[slowrider]

 

[Mothertucker]

Living very close to the Park, so we get to visit several times a year. It never ceases to amaze me how many stupid people do stupid things with signage everywhere warning them not to do said stupid things. You can cure a lot of things, but you can't cure stupid.

Like Conlin v. Vail?

 

[Bad Bob]

Chalk up another candidate for the Darwin Awards. Signs don't cure stupid.

 

[VickieH]

they found that nothing of the man remained – except his wallet and his flip flops. (what the heck were his flip flops and wallet made of

If he'd had a Twinkie in his pocket, it would likely have survived also.

 

[tball]

Like Conlin v. Vail?

Nice. Are you disparaging a dead 13-year-old boy?

Or is the stupid you are referring to the fact that Vail, unlike Yellowstone, did not put up a sign? Or that Vail didn't do any avalanche mitigation?

 

[Mothertucker]

Nice. Are you disparaging a dead 13-year-old boy?

Or is the stupid you are referring to the fact that Vail, unlike Yellowstone, did not put up a sign? Or that Vail didn't do any avalanche mitigation?

I've ignored warning/closed signs before, still do sometimes, still not smart. I thought pushing the case was stupid, higher it went, less chance it had.

 

[VickiK]

Horrific

 

[John Webb]

Stupid ways to die.

 

[KingGrump]

Is there a smart way to die?

 

[slowrider]

Shit happens. Don't be that guy.

 

[pchewn]

He liquidated his assets.

 

[Sibhusky]

I thought, "Another one?" but this is pretty old. Yellowstone seems to max out its stupid quota every year.

 

[VickieH]

I wonder how much all of the other "warning" labels -- electrical items, toys, coffee cups -- have desensitized us to real warnings and real danger.

 

[slowrider]

School of hard knocks

 

[scott43]

I wonder how much all of the other "warning" labels -- electrical items, toys, coffee cups -- have desensitized us to real warnings and real danger.

I'd say, in general, many people have a poor understanding or acknowledgement of actual risk anymore. I think the media uses us..social media..politicians.

 

[KingGrump]

I wonder how much all of the other "warning" labels -- electrical items, toys, coffee cups -- have desensitized us to real warnings and real danger.

Instead of thinking how desensitized they have made us. Think about all the idiots they recused from the clutches of Chuck (Darwin).