Workers fired for urinating into Old Faithful geyser

The Old Faithful geyser at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. (USGS)

I know this happened a few weeks ago (no breaking news here), but I wanted to include it here because stupidity fascinates me.

Two dumb seasonal Yellowstone National Park concession workers were fired after a live webcam caught them urinating into the Old Faithful geyser.

Lucky for the natural men the geyser wasn't erupting, though anyone would have to be dumber than dumb to pee into a hole shooting 4,000 to 8,000 gallons of boiling water 100-200 ft. up in the air.

The park's dispatch center was called after someone watching a webcast of the geyser saw six employees leaving the trail and walking on Old Faithful on May 4, AP reported.

Too bad the AP reporter didn't obtain additional info about the webcast.

Park spokesman Al Nash said a 23-year-old man on was fined $750 and placed on three years of unsupervised probation for urinating, being off trail in a restricted area, and taking items from the area, AP reported. The man also was banned from Yellowstone for two years. The second employee's case is pending.

Old Faithful is America's most famous geyser. It was the first one explorers saw during the 1870 Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition, and the first one in Yellowstone to get a name.

Sources: The Associated Press
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