An unfortunate visitor to Yellowstone National Park’s famous hot springs experienced a thermal surprise after putting her hand in the spring’s boiling water.
A video that has gone viral shows a man and woman unaware — or despising — of the danger and flouting safety lines.
They then descend a grassy embankment and approach the 174 degree Celsius hydrothermal pool.
The man who takes the video remarks laconically that they are “stupid”.
The woman rolls up her sleeves, crouches on the ground at the edge of the spring and, with futile caution, dips the fingers of her right hand and the toe of her shoe into the hot water.
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She gets up immediately, runs to the promenade and yells, “It’s hot! It’s very hot!”, which made the audience laugh.
The Instagram post includes a quote from the person who took the video, recounting a brief conversation he allegedly had with the couple before the incident.
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“I told them it was a bad idea and they shouldn’t go under,” he said.
However, he encountered an end to inadmissibility: “It doesn’t matter, man,” he would have replied.