2 Yellowstone Workers Fired For Peeing In Geyser

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Two seasonal Yellowstone National Park concession workers have been fired after a live webcam caught them urinating into the Old Faithful geyser.

Park spokesman Al Nash says a 23-year-old man on Tuesday 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. The man also was banned from Yellowstone for two years.

The second employee's case is pending.

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

The geyser was not erupting at the time.

Xanterra Parks & Resorts general manager Jim McCaleb says the former concession workers were hired at the Old Faithful Inn and that such incidents were rare.

Comments

[copperbird]

This is not even worthy of a news story.....­.

It's just silly.....

-C

[JohnJudy]

You just know these were Bush appointees­....

[Cheesemelt]

And here I thought avoiding public restrooms was enough...

[JackND]

""The geyser was not erupting at the time.""

The most unfortunate part of the story.

[tre]

Now, suppose Old Faithful had erupted right about then. Hmmmmm....­..

[seasun]

What is the big deal about peeing in the geyser?

I hope some peeing monitoring police don't get any ideas about fining me for all the times I have peed in the ocean.

[Checquoline]

Well stop it. Your mother told you where to pee and where not to pee.

[dreadylocks]

Seriously. It's nature, I think it will survive.

[You]

It will, but if the thin rock crust breaks and you fall through, you're boiled. That's why they have raised wooden trails all over the park in the geyser areas.

[ramper]

Well the geysers have been peeing on them for years.

[John Galish]

How do you think the stone became yellow?

[BeyondKen]

God will get you for that remark.

[mick7191]

Pretty stupid, There are people who would kill for that job. Oops, I wrote the word kill.

[Vr6]

A problem is only as big as you/they want it to be!

[llisa]

I spit off the Royal Gorge Bridge when I was a kid. Saved up my spit in the car for miles. Wanted to watch it fall as far as the eye could see.

I spit that big ol' glob over the side of the bridge.

And a bird swooped in and ate my spit.

If I'd been a boy, I'm sure I would have peed off of or into any cool thing I could.

But, employees at Yellowstone ought to know about the dangers--not to mention the cameras.

[Checquoline]

The key words here are.......­.....When I was a kid.

[MichaelMcKLA]

Hey, it's Wyoming. I used to live there. Cowboy country. Chill out. The real issue should be: Did they toss empty beer cans into the geyser?

[SwingingFromCenter]

Hey admit it...you'd do it too.

I know I would.

[me again]

LMAO

[Tom95134]

Now we know the real reason that Teddy Roosevelt use to call the area the yellow stone as in, "We're spending time out on the yellow stone."

[mouselion]

Once again -- sulphur.

[jimmy19]

Yellow... Stone.... hmmm...

[mouselion]

Sulphur.