Fat Twitter Man posted:

This post does a lot to validate my career choice in Park Service law enforcement.

Kazak_Hstan posted:

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-st...tml#incart_2box

Lmao

Kazak_Hstan posted:

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-st...tml#incart_2box

Lmao

quote:

The listing has given Ritzheimer a new perspective on Muslims, a group he notoriously antagonized. In 2015, he organized an armed protest outside a Phoenix mosque. He told CNN's Anderson Cooper that "True Islam is terrorism."

But in June, Ritzheimer reached out to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, offering to join the organization in a lawsuit challenging the watch list. The subject line said: "Olive Branch."

The council never got back to him, he said.

Fat Twitter Man posted:

This post does a lot to validate my career choice in Park Service law enforcement.

Marijuana Nihilist posted:

hahaha oh my god

Vilas Kraut posted:

In your experience, how stupid does a person have to be to get caught smoking weed in a 1,000 square mile national park?

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

the land was there--undisturbed for millions of years and doing just fine--without people with dumb khaki hats and weaponized flashlights telling you where you can and where you cannot smoke weed

even if it's legal in the state you are in

can't inhale the smoke from this plant-based matter while surrounded by trees in the middle of nowhere because it's "federal property"

the land shouldn't be "private" either, it should just be land, man

public service announcement: this is not a convincing argument to the khaki fascists and will not prevent them from writing you up

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Bonfire Lit posted:

I'm the literal domestic terrorists who're surprised they might have been placed on a terrorist watchlist

Vilas Kraut posted:

In your experience, how stupid does a person have to be to get caught smoking weed in a 1,000 square mile national park?

Fat Twitter Man posted:

One case I can think of, the guy was in a backcountry campsite but rangers went to check on his campsite because he was walking along a road with a whiskey bottle wearing a bear costume. It may well have been Trump's Baby Hands.

Kazak_Hstan posted:

It's a mandatory appearance in my region, which is why every ranger I know ignores it unless forced to care. I'm not leaving the park for two days and filing out a travel authorization for a joint.

Vilas Kraut posted:

In your experience, how stupid does a person have to be to get caught smoking weed in a 1,000 square mile national park?

Relevant Tangent posted:

I'd imagine it's a situation of too many idiots not to be. Went and saw Old Faithful with my parents when I was kid and a younger kid was under the rope reaching towards one of the rivulets that run along the ground. Some alert adult grabbed him back, but I guess those are all at some crazy temperature?

Skellybones posted:

That's just what cowboys do, you can't infringe on their God-given rights.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

And insane Ph as well. I trust you saw that story a week or so ago about the dude who accidentally dissolved himself while trying to bathe in one of Yellowstone's pools?

Yinlock posted:

i thought he just tripped in while drunk

Baloogan posted:

Wait he jumped into boiling sulfur sober?

Death in Yellowstone posted:

The hot springs found in abundance throughout Yellowstone National Park's thermal areas are bubbling cauldrons of steam and boiling water, most of them hotter than 150°F, and many of them in the 185°-205°F range. (Due to the elevation, water boils at about 198° in Yellowstone.) Twenty-two scalding deaths have been recorded in connection with Yellowstone's hot springs since 1870, all of them known or believed to have involved people who inadvertently fell into the springs through accident or carelessness — save one.

On 20 July 1981, 24-year-old David Allen Kirwan from La Cañada, California, was driving through Yellowstone's Fountain Paint Pot thermal area with his friend Ronald Ratliff and Ratliff's dog Moosie. At about 1:00 P.M. they parked their truck to get out and take a closer look at the hot springs; Moosie escaped from the truck, ran towards nearby Celestine Pool (a thermal spring whose water temperature has been measured at over 200°), jumped in, and began yelping.

Kirwan and Ratliff rushed over to the pool to aid the terrified dog, and Kirwan's attitude indicated he was about to go into the spring after it. According to bystanders, several people tried to warn Kirwan off by yelling at him not to jump in, but he shouted "Like hell I won't!" back at them, took two steps into the pool, and then dove head-first into the boiling spring.

Kirwan swam out to the dog and attempted to take it to shore; he then disappeared underwater, let go of the dog, and tried to climb out of the pool. Ratliff helped pull Kirwan out of the hot spring (resulting in second-degree burns to his own feet), and another visitor led Kirwan to the sidewalk as he reportedly muttered, "That was stupid. How bad am I? That was a stupid thing I did."

Kirwan was indeed in very bad shape. He was blind, and when another park visitor tried to remove one of his shoes, his skin (which was already peeling everywhere) came off with it. He sustained third-degree burns to 100% of his body, including his head, and died the following morning at a Salt Lake City hospital. (Moosie did not survive, either.)

Platystemon posted:

Platystemon posted:

On 20 July 1981, 24-year-old David Allen Kirwan from La Cañada, California

Casimir Radon posted:

There shouldn't be any rules in the wilderness man!

*Starts a forest fire with their joint
*Puts a bison calf in their car so its mother rejects it
*Goes skinny dipping in hot spring, dies, family sues

Platystemon posted:

"That was a stupid thing I did."

Knight posted:

I think animals just spontaneously boil to death or catch fire quite often. How do you think forest fires start? It's just a sad fact of nature.

Knight posted:

I think animals just spontaneously boil to death or catch fire quite often. How do you think forest fires start? It's just a sad fact of nature.