Tourist fined for collecting hot spring water

He also admitted to collecting the hot springs water.

While it was the first incident this week it is the latest in a number of events where tourists have flouted rules at the park.

Park rangers issued a $1,000 fine to a tourist visiting Yellowstone National Park after he walked off a boardwalk and collected thermal water from Mammoth Hot Springs, park officials said.

A witness reported seeing the man break through the fragile rock crust surrounding the Mammoth Hot Springs area.

National park officials aren’t messing around with safety fines after a man was killed by a geyser last week.

Park officials did not release the man’s name.

Some Chinese visitors reportedly cut through lines, openly violated park restrictions and even vandalized park toilets, according to the Associated Press.

Reid said the park’s regulations are in place to prevent incidents like that, but also to protect the park’s natural features.

The Chinese national was fined on Tuesday, the park announced this week, after another visitor saw and reported him for walking on terraced formations and collecting thermal water near an area called Liberty Cap. The statute is assumedly in place to keep visitors safe from the volatile and volcanic hot springs that are a main feature of the park’s natural wonders.

Of course humans are supposed to stay 300 feet away from bears and wolves in the park, and anywhere else really, so as to avoid disturbing them, but what are you supposed to do when they walk right up to your auto?

Soon after the bison calf incident, a film crew from Canada was caught on camera going off the boardwalk at Grand Prismatic Spring and walking on the hot spring itself.

On June 7, 23-year-old Colin Nathaniel Scott of Portland slipped on gravel and fell into scalding, acidic water after leaving a boardwalk in the Norris Geyser Basin.