Putting the yellow in Yellowstone

 

Just about everything is on a webcam these days. So you have to wonder why seasonal employees in Yellowstone thought they could get away with an illegal trek to the edge of Old Faithful, where one of them apparently urinated into the geyser.

The Associated Press reports that one 23-year-old man was fined $750 after the May 4 incident. He also was banned from Yellowstone for two years. The case against a second employee is pending.

Park employees were tipped off by someone watching a webcam who saw six employees making tracks for the fissure's edge. The geyser was not erupting at the time.

-- Geoffrey Mohan

Photo: Old Faithful geyser, Yellowstone National Park. Credit: National Park Service

Comments

[terrible James]

i wonder what happens when the deer urinate in the geyser. Do they get kicked out of the park too?

[Stay off my lawn]

"i wonder what happens when the deer urinate in the geyser. Do they get kicked out of the park too?"

Funny. I know I would prefer to have my neighbors defecating/urinating on my front lawn instead of in their toilet!