Yellowstone Park accident victim dissolved in boiling acidic pool

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Yellowstone Park accident victim dissolved in boiling acidic pool

17 November 2016 US & Canada

The remains of a man who died in a hot spring accident in Yellowstone National Park were dissolved before they could be recovered, it has emerged.

Colin Scott, 23, died in June in an illegal attempt to soak, or "hot pot", in the US park's thermal pools.

The accident was recorded by the victim's sister on her mobile phone, the incident report says.

The grisly details came to light following a freedom-of-information request by local television news.

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Ms Scott was recording a video of her brother on the phone as he reached down to test the water, before he slipped and fell in.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38018209

[KittyWampus]

1. That is harsh. But thank goodness...

the victim's sister has it all on video.

[longship]

2. Hold my beer. WATCH THIS! nt

[alfredo]

3. Horrible way to die.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. Worse would be if he was able to scramble back out

That's a lingering death, some have taken up to a couple weeks to die. People mistakenly think that extreme pain will cause you to lose consciousness. It does not. A medically induced coma is the only way to relieve the pain.

[alfredo]

10. A self immolation survivor said it hurt like hell.

[COLGATE4]

4. Definitely a contendor for this year's

Darwin Award.

[kydo]

5. In most years yes but sadly not this year

Nope this year that award goes the USA for picking hitler as the new prez. The UK had it there for a while until well before orange happened.

[COLGATE4]

6. Yep. Kind of a global Darwin Award for 50% of

the US voting population.

[greyl]

9. If you're like me, you'll be happy to know it's only 27%.

Well, maybe not happy - just not quite as disgusted.

edit: unless you're including eligible voters who abstained, in which case it's way worse than 50%.

[lunasun]

7. they both went off the boardwalk . There is a book Death at Yellowstone . It's not Disneyland