A Dude Fell Into Acidic Water At Yellowstone Park And Basically Dissolved To Death
(CNN) A trip to one of the nation’s natural wonders ended in a unnatural tragedy. A 23-year-old Oregon man essentially dissolved inside a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming after he accidentally fell into it. The bizarre incident happened back in June, when Colin Nathaniel Scott went to the park with his sister to find a place to “hot pot.” According to a recently released report from park officials, Scott and his sister went to an unauthorized area near the Norris Geyser. “They were specifically moving in that area for a place that they could potentially get into and soak,” Deputy Chief Ranger Lorant Veress told CNN affiliate KULR. “I think they call it hot potting.” Scott had reached down to check the temperature of a spring when he slipped and fell into it. Rescuers later found Scott’s body inside the pool, but couldn’t retrieve it because of a lighting storm in the area. When they came back the next day, no remains were found beneath the spring’s churning, acidic waters. “In a very short order, there was a significant amount of dissolving,” Veress said.
Whaaaaaaaaaaat? RIP my dude. That’s some Breaking Bad shit right there. If I’m a criminal in the Wyoming area and looking for a place to hide a body, I’m heading straight to Yellowstone and throwing the body in one of these acid puddles. Outta sight, outta mind. The article says all it took was one night for the body to completely dissolve into nothing. That’s efficiency. Here’s an idea for the park, though. This one’s free. Maybe put a fence or even a sign around the bodies of water at Yellowstone Park that will kill you by way of dissolvisation (totally made that word up but 95% of vocabulary is confidence) in 4 hours. Feel like that should’ve been the first thing to happen once these death traps were discovered on the property. Or maybe the park had no clue the acid traps existed. That’d be some shit. How many people have fallen into the acid that nobody knows about? We’ll literally never know because their entire existence turned into liquid goo. Also RIP to Yellowstone Park’s legal team.