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Jun 10, 2025 9:12 PM
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austinwizardforhire
Pretty sure this was Colin Scott, happened in 2019. He was with his sister when it happened (she recorded it on her phone). It happened at the Norris Geyser Basin in WY which happens to be the hottest thermal region in Yellowstone. Most thermal features have a surface temperature of 199F (93C) or higher (highest recorded was 280F/138C).
So...yeah. At least it was quick.
DerpMeister
Where's that graduation picture from? Darwin University?
JD67
murderhobbit
That's a terrible way to go
Arkvoodle
Some stupidity is so advanced that not even society's safeguards can stop them from running face first into natural selection.
nullbr
And, may I ask out of curiosity, are those things constantly monitored so they don't become a body dumping spot?
IncognitoEnthusiast
CrabbyBlueberry
Karma!
MrFancyPanzer
What was the stuff with the monkeys?
TarynnosaurusRex
A couple days ago a clip circulated of this tourist feeding chips to monkeys while locals were yelling at him not to. There was a sign starting clearly not to feed them with a penalty fine if caught. You'll easily find info about it with a quick Google.
codenameRadical
News seems to indicate that he was checking temperature and slipped, rather than trying to dive in.
backrideup9
This is the same hot spring that has a sign next to it that says it's so hot it'll basically melt your skin off, isn't it?
Teratoid
What a horrible way to die... So stupidly.
RevRagnarok
SpartaWolf117
Happened in 2016 from the looks of it
cousteau
I remember reading about it a long time ago, yes.
Imsorrythatwasinappropriate
and his sister took video of it as he slipped and fell in, not knowing that was the end of her brother (yes she did try to save him too)
electrica77350
I live in the UK and have never visited America, and even I know that if you visit Yellowstone, you stay on the path and don't go anywhere near the boiling hot springs.
(you also pray that it doesn't reactivate during your lifetime)
Nim449
Humanity, My reactivation has been delayed due to your constant feed of human sacrifices. This pleases Me.
tEMPuSER632
Current observations from the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory indicate that the magma chamber beneath Yellowstone is mostly solid and there are no indications of an imminent eruption.
Stoneagedudeman
This shit comes out at the COLDEST 198f. Getting anywhere near it, you KNOW it's hot as fuck. Getting close enough to fucking playing in it?
Dude had a death wish, and Death called his bluff.
ApolloSierra
For those who use Celsius, that's 92°C.
NappaTheFriendlyGhost
Thats what had me scratching my head. I've been to yellowstone and these springs radiate heat like a flame from the safety of the guard rails. Getting any closer you know it would be like climbing in to an oven long before you actually touch the stuff.
hiyesthisissatan
They're not all that hot. Some are cooler but extremely acidic.
eion85
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/17/yellowstone-oregon-man-body-dissolved-hot-spring
BanzaiRun
"the subject was determined to be deceased" one could read that in two ways
M34665
the use of "" in that article makes it seem like foul play (ie when Scott fell into a hot spring “and did not get out”)
muliphen
From the context, I'd presume this was quoted directly from NPS report, and may have even been a statement from his sister taken by NPS.
HashMaster9k
Ugh!
He was from Oregon? We breed such idiots up here.
UsernameMayBeSubjectToChange
Common sense is, unfortunately, quite uncommon
SaturnineCult
Maybe he was just a Ridley Scott -style Engineer and wanted to dissolve his dna to earth to birth a new race of dumb people.
GoombaLord
StrandedonEarth
Common sense is a herb that does not grow in everybody’s garden…
249bE35thSt
If common sense was so common, everybody’d be doing it.
MissySassy
hot pot?
sunyudai
'trendy' slang term for bathing in a natural hot spring, based on the name of a popular Asian meal.
battlebetter5772
So beware of anyone who has geothermal hot springs in their backyard.Hence the term as greedy as a geothermal hotspring
MapleSyrupMafia
Are you my nemesis?
Hammertulski
In the wise words of Park Ranger Mary, don’t come again.
meganical
How would? In what way…..? What exactly would be the cause of death? Like, did he die instantly, like human body just went, “Too hot,” and died? Would the body feel like it’s on fire? Does the brain melt first? I just have so many questions and yet, I’m not sure I want to know the answers
cousteau
The cause of death is clear: stupidity.
Aristocrats
Could be hydrogen sulfide fumes, if the concentration is high enough its basically a light switch for animals. Literally will put a person out at roughly the speed of sound. Just near instantaneously.
CurbYourClassWar
I have no idea if this is correct, but maybe immediate suffocation? Imagine breathing in that steam / vapor. I feel like the lungs would immediately burn up and cease their ability to get oxygen.
Trelfar
He fell into near-boiling water and would have immediately received severe burns to almost his entire body. Shock combined with panic → unconsciousness → drowning.
GuyGordon
If he didn't pass out from hydrogen sulfide, then his heart would stop simply from overheating. Which would be a mercy because his skin was going to start pealing off.
QuitLookinAtMineAim
Pretty sure you'd make it long enough to feel the heat and pain from that, but you'd pass out pretty quick.
Rynestrm
They say hot pot, like I should know the term.
RenaissanceFaireMan
It's like fondue, but with oil & meat.
ShoelessLouis
Usually just crabs and lobsters are into it. But you know how this cause play stuff has gotten out of hand.
RenaissanceFaireMan
Seafood & butter works too.
BishlamekGurpgork
"Hot Pot," aside from the culinary dish, is also a slang term for illegally swimming in Yellowstone's geothermal features.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/17/yellowstone-oregon-man-body-dissolved-hot-spring
BishlamekGurpgork
(Or any geothermal feature, apparently. I first found it in the context of this article, which suggested it might be Yellowstone slang. Sorry for any confusion.)
BaldBandit
It's a type of cooking/dining. You have a pot of broth placed at your table which is kept boiling by a burner/hotplate. You then dip in uncooked meats and vegetables using skewers until the broth cooks them through. Sometimes, the broth is reused for a bowl of noodles after the main course. It's a great dining experience for family and friends.
sunyudai
Unfortunately, that is not the way it is being used here. He was treating it like a hot tub.
dingybasement350
Well it turns out it was used the other way.
CrabbyBlueberry
It's when you use a natural hot spring as a hot tub. I've done this, but it was in Idaho. Yellowstone is not a safe place. You stay on the god damn fucking path when you're at Yellowstone. Do not touch or step on ANYTHING that isn't man made. Did your hat blow off your head? It's gone forever.
TexMexHex
Remindeds of the of grandma in Dante's Peak. But, stupid.
Harm
There's even a literal hot pot scene at the start of the movie,as a first sign of the disaster to come.
blackstone459
That scene is really rough, I should watch that movie again
cousteau
The only thing I remember about that movie was a friend of mine yelling "There she goes, the super grandma!" when we were watching it.
CurbYourClassWar
I mean, she was pretty stupid, refused to evacuate till lava was in her living room and risked the lives of her grandkids, daughter and Pierce Brosnan.
OriginalAndWitty
Fun fact about most hot springs in Yellowstone- they're not just boiling water, they're boiling acid. If you fall and die in one there will be nothing left of you to bury, just like this story.
TheJurc
Most of the springs are actually alkaline, only a few areas are acidic.
OliverOtter
Yeah, If I remember right they found part of his wallet and a plastic comb.
HamDangler7TheLuckOfTheDangle
Well done. No pun intended
SrPootStank
Jesus you people are horrible. We've all done stupid stuff when we're young. Cheering and laughing at some young guys death is fucked up.
pixelsauras
Came to say this, too. What the fuck is wrong with people that their lives are so empty and pathetic that they have to make themselves feel good from someone's tragedy?
RoyDMercer
I guess that saved on funeral expenses . . .
an0therthr0waway
oof...
meganical
You say that but it is 100% true
Nogare
I have just as many problems with authority figures as the next person, but why ignore the hundreds of warning signs placed everywhere? Do people literally think they are invincible?
SnakuPlisskin
To date I have observed ~16,500 days where I have not died and 0 days where I have died so clearly I am immortal
bhobby1212
Wtf is hot pot?
Stoicnihilist
This guy apparently
somethingstupidandclever
It is a method of cooking and serving food. Used all over asia, but the one im familiar with is chinese. Basically making a big soup together with all the stuff you want cooked and eating along the way.
missojennie
somethingstupidandclever
More faster. More slower
somethingstupidandclever
No. No that makes no sense but hot pot more faster for sure.
MrFancyPanzer
Hot potting is the practice of using the thermal pools as hot tubs, some are relatively safe, others are not, people have died.
GorillaPowers
Yeah, like the dude in the post
WisconsinPlatt
Yeah, the "completely dissolved in a day" is what clued me in
DeadeicPrints
Man it super annoys me that that's a phrase someone felt they needed to create. I wanna hit that person with a pillow and call them dumb.
landbaronness42
There is a place in yellowstone called The Boiling River where you can legally swim and the river is toasty warm but we were told repeatedly to respect 99% of the hot places.
meganical
Thank you because I was like, “What the hell does a popular Asian meal have to do with this?”
YouAreTheInsultMaster
It's made from people
Sageypie
I had a similar thought. Was totally fine with going with it as well. Just thinking the dude was trying to cook with a fucking geyser or something.
CurbYourClassWar
Burned alive? For What? Enjoying a succulent Chinese meal??!
Bloodsense
Sir, are you waiting ro receive my limp body?
LongCommentChainAppreciator
Ah! I see you know your Judo well
hyrulenpc
Ohh, I assumed he was actually trying to cook food in it
MapleSyrupMafia
Well... we are meat...
motherofcats18
Humans are long pig and soylent green is humans
Sypurist
Me too, and I can't decide which would be worse.
ionicseraph
I mean, if you used a reeeeeeally long stick, or maybe tie a chicken to a fishing pole
manystripes
Worse would be trying to cook food in the hot spring after a human was dissolved in it
akafluffy
I'm sure he's not the first.
missojennie
SoberAndBored
What the... is that real? Is that a real thing that I can buy?
Taxicat
Split pot for hot pot cooking? Yes!
Harm
That's how the Dante's peak movie starts.
grandfalloon
Yeah, that was horrifying.
JimmyGTraveler
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJla250aHhnamlyMHA2NzJ5eDNmZ284NmV4d2IyNGF0NWhjdG50MGw4eiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3RyZW5kaW5nJmN0PWc/3oEjHI8WJv4x6UPDB6/giphy.mp4
Dannyalcatraz
TIL.
Harm
Not that I'd want to spoil it for you but there's also 2 vigorous volcanoes somewhere further in the movie and Pierce Brosnan is only one of them.
anthrdrunkenwannabepoet
oh shit, forgot about that. yup, but natural selection and all that
ionicseraph
To be fair, the hotspring didn't turn deadly until after they had jumped in, as is the way in movies.
anthrdrunkenwannabepoet
I mean, it was deadly enough in real life for them to post a sign, the movie was just predicting the future
ionicseraph
But the sign in the movie was just the name of the hot spring...
AnonymousFlyingSquirrel
That movie is my childhood trauma film. I have the same name as the little girl in the movie, and the grandma in it reminded me of my great grandma... that scene with her jumping into the acid lake to push the boat to shore... yep, still have nightmares about it
Etherealvalentine
I do too. Also the bone coming out of the arm in the cave.
Harm
I was so confused by the shadowing of the scene. I paused for a long time until I decided/understood it was the bone sticking out and.... EUUUURGH
Etherealvalentine
EUURGH INDEED!
68slug
To this day I never keep my coffee beans in the freezer
Etherealvalentine
Coffee! Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee!!!! Cappuccino! Java! Yesssss!
bourbonandbaddecisions
Well this guy is now.
shano510
Wait, so NOT the cooking style of dipping raw meat into a hot flavored broth to cook it?
DonL9
So, he fondued himself?
DoctorWookie
Pretty accurate description of what happened to him.
missojennie
CaptSchmidtGaming
I love how they use his graduation pic to tug atcha
TNSCLuotaMEa4fVN
Or. maybe to show that being educated doesn't mean shit if you're a dumbass
ThadisJones
It's because otherwise no one would believe someone that stupid could have graduated high school
meganical
He’s a white guy so yeah, what did you expect? They only have this and family vacation photos to choose from when he does something bad
WhoHim
It was honorary
unsneakyLurker
Did you know you can just buy those hats and ribbons? They don't check if you're an actual graduate. Heck, you can probably get a discount if you get it used from someone who recently graduated!
porphyre1e00
Yeah, I mean think of the poor institution that's holding those student loans that will never collect 30 years of interest. /s
grandfalloon
Even his graduation pic makes me wanna punch him.
silentjay01
It makes me wonder what his major was.
SirJamesMonster42
Make Ball Go
JoeT85
kinda makes me believe in Natural Selection again. But that's working at too slow of a pace.
lapus
I'm a teacher, it made me think, " I know 30 of these idiots".
KMSigma
I know home school valedictorians who would be this person.
IAmTheBadW01f
That sounds like an understatement, unless you're a first year teacher in a school with only 20 students
lapus
Correct, after 23 years... there are 100s
IAmTheBadW01f
I could only handle 1 year of teaching and that was almost a decade ago and I could still name several that ar irrevocably burned into my memory
Ialwayslookhungover
Thats a child that should've been left behind another couple years.
TheCornBanana
It's kinda a backhanded complement- It implies he should have known better
akafluffy
He absolutely should have known better, there's signs all over the place
StudioDerpster
Cum laude too by the ropes
LordSmokedMeatsAndFishes
I loudly cum ropes too but you don't see me bragging about it
Totalwombat
Oh I see you cumming ropes don't you worry my little buddy
realmdweller
Seeing as how they’re hot due to volcanic activity below ground, wouldn’t that make people Magma Cum Laude?
VInTheSkyWithElephants
The pun is perfect, but over explained
realmdweller
Yes it was needlessly wordy, wasn’t it? I shall have to work on my craft.
Killerma
I remember reading about a man who attempted to save his dog from one of the thermal springs, he was badly scalded and died later.
Midgarmerc
Normally I prefer my dogs grilled... alright I'll downvote myself
UseYourVoice
For those who are morbidly curious: https://www.unilad.com/news/man-rescue-dog-hot-spring-death-675753-20231231
mattologist
Detailed in this book amongst others: Death in Yellowstone https://g.co/kgs/qvPWC2Q
wrongsideofthestory
My favorite book!!
Jeanemon
When they pulled him out he was blind and had 3rd degree burns over most of his body and said, very aptly, 'That was stupid. How bad am I? That was a stupid thing I did.' Which like, hindisght is 20/20
249bE35thSt
Awful
GreatHair
0/20, in this case
hobbitdude13
"Sure was, buddy." - St. Peter
KidCharlemagne524
After they pulled home out, they tried to take his clothes off to assess his burns, and his skin came off with them. And his dog died too, so he died for nothing.
OhIfIMust
I’m completely serious when I say that at least he spared himself a lifetime of the guilt, shame, and horror of having watched and heard his dog boil to death, knowing it was his own fault. Not saying it was worth it, but that’s a small silver lining, from where I’m standing.
MrAcurite
Doing something stupid is stupid. Doing something stupid to try and save your dog is entirely understandable.
meganical
I guess the meaning here is to not bring pets to dangerous places
ThePockyJocky
They are not permitted near the springs so... Yeah
LespritDeLescalier22
Or stupid people
Gestalt7
Come on! The pool needs chlorine sometimes.