Boy Falls in Hot Pool in NZ

Loulou

Just wanted to send well wishes to this poor little fella I heard about today. :(
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1454 ... from-wire/

unlost dogs

Loulou wrote:

Just wanted to send well wishes to this poor little fella I heard about today. :(
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1454 ... from-wire/

Oh how awful _ I misread it at first and thought it was 100 degrees Fahrenheit _ then saw it's Celsius and that's actually boiling water.

That poor child...

haffajappa

Jesus, that is like falling into a boiling pot of water on the stove.....
Poor thing, that would have been immensely painful...

How'd he get over that fence? The parents must feel terrible, they should have been watching but you can't keep an eye on your kids 100% of the time I guess... :(

morello

Sorry to be the bearer(sp?) of bad news but the young chap died. Terrible, terrible news. Nothing's been released yet about how the heck it happened.

Nothingman54

I read that yesterday. I held my boys a little tighter after reading it.

Loulou

Awwwww really? That's so sad. Didn't think he had much of a chance though.

morello

Yep.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4501357 ... -pool-dies
I know Kuirau Park well. Love the place but yep there's some seriously hot geothermal activity there. Awful & I expect we'll hear about it for ages as whatever the fuk happened come to light. :x

Loulou

Oh so there is speculation that he might have been thrown is there???? :?

morello wrote:

Yep.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4501357 ... -pool-dies
I know Kuirau Park well. Love the place but yep there's some seriously hot geothermal activity there. Awful & I expect we'll hear about it for ages as whatever the fuk happened come to light. :x

morello

Oh no, I haven't heard any speculation at all it's just more like how the fuk did it happen? YTF wasn't someone watching him, see him dangerously close to the edge etc? There are barriers all around the place down there. I don't know what actual spot it happened in but my 1st thought is he must have clambered over some barrier or been sitting on a barrier or something, but actually, sorry this is absolute speculation & how things get blown out of proportion so god knows.

eyedclaar

Happens every year in Yellowstone Park... to animals and humans.

http://www.dailyvsvidz.com/2010/11/burn ... -bear.html

Loulou

No, I think your completely right! I mean, if I went there with my little one the first thing you think of is, Wow, this place is incredibly dangerous and i am not letting go of my child's hand while we are here. I think it's really odd. And you say it's really fenced off too, yeah???

morello wrote:

Oh no, I haven't heard any speculation at all it's just more like how the fuk did it happen? YTF wasn't someone watching him, see him dangerously close to the edge etc? There are barriers all around the place down there. I don't know what actual spot it happened in but my 1st thought is he must have clambered over some barrier or been sitting on a barrier or something, but actually, sorry this is absolute speculation & how things get blown out of proportion so god knows.

Loulou

Awwwwwwwww poor Bison!!!

eyedclaar wrote:

Happens every year in Yellowstone Park... to animals and humans.

http://www.dailyvsvidz.com/2010/11/burn ... -bear.html

eyedclaar

Loulou wrote:

Awwwwwwwww poor Bison!!!

eyedclaar wrote:

Happens every year in Yellowstone Park... to animals and humans.

http://www.dailyvsvidz.com/2010/11/burn ... -bear.html

I can't believe it escaped the griz... only to be shot by rangers. Not saying I wouldn't have shot it, just crazy is all.

Loulou

Yeah, doomed from the start really.Sad

eyedclaar wrote:

Loulou wrote:

Awwwwwwwww poor Bison!!!

eyedclaar wrote:

Happens every year in Yellowstone Park... to animals and humans.

http://www.dailyvsvidz.com/2010/11/burn ... -bear.html

I can't believe it escaped the griz... only to be shot by rangers. Not saying I wouldn't have shot it, just crazy is all.

BinauralJam

eyedclaar wrote:

Happens every year in Yellowstone Park... to animals and humans.

http://www.dailyvsvidz.com/2010/11/burn ... -bear.html

Poor Cow! i would think animals would know to stay away, sad.

morello

Loulou wrote:

No, I think your completely right! I mean, if I went there with my little one the first thing you think of is, Wow, this place is incredibly dangerous and i am not letting go of my child's hand while we are here. I think it's really odd. And you say it's really fenced off too, yeah??

No, I don't know the exact spot where this happened so I don't know that it's fenced off but most places in the public areas down there are so & yeah, like you say, you'd think you'd be thinking:

Loulou wrote:

this place is incredibly dangerous and i am not letting go of my child's hand while we are here

Loulou

I wouldn't let go of my daughter's hand at all. I know he was 8 but that's still too young for him to be out of Mum and Dad's view hey? Oh well, guess we'll never know how it happened, not like the parents are going to admit fault I don't think.

unlost dogs

I used to cross cover in a burn ICU and I can't think of anything more painful... thank God for medically induced comas...

I love, love, love animals, but for that bison the best and kindest option was to shoot him and end his suffering. I can't imagine the animal could have survived those injuries.

eyedclaar

BinauralJam wrote:

eyedclaar wrote:

Happens every year in Yellowstone Park... to animals and humans.

http://www.dailyvsvidz.com/2010/11/burn ... -bear.html

Poor Cow! i would think animals would know to stay away, sad.

The animals do know. However, the ground is so unstable above some of those geothermic areas that living things wind up puncturing a thin layer of rock and fall into the boiling water beneath. There are booby traps everywhere in the backcountry of YSP. Don't fuck around with that shit if you go...

Loulou

Yeah that's true. Probably in shock too. I know when I used to work in the Vet, we used to see dogs who had been put in the back of a ute and they had fallen out and scraped most of their hair and skin off. Alot of times it's the shock that's the worst for their little bodies with their blood pressure and temperature, their bodies go haywire.
NOTE TO PEOPLE OUT THERE! BE CAREFUL PUTTING DOGS IN THE BACK OF UTES!!!

unlost dogs wrote:

I used to cross cover in a burn ICU and I can't think of anything more painful... thank God for medically induced comas...

I love, love, love animals, but for that bison the best and kindest option was to shoot him and end his suffering. I can't imagine the animal could have survived those injuries.

unlost dogs

Loulou wrote:

Yeah that's true. Probably in shock too. I know when I used to work in the Vet, we used to see dogs who had been put in the back of a ute and they had fallen out and scraped most of their hair and skin off. Alot of times it's the shock that's the worst for their little bodies with their blood pressure and temperature, their bodies go haywire.
NOTE TO PEOPLE OUT THERE! BE CAREFUL PUTTING DOGS IN THE BACK OF UTES!!!

unlost dogs wrote:

I used to cross cover in a burn ICU and I can't think of anything more painful... thank God for medically induced comas...

I love, love, love animals, but for that bison the best and kindest option was to shoot him and end his suffering. I can't imagine the animal could have survived those injuries.

What's a Ute? Is it like the back of a pickup truck? I go crazy when I see dogs traveling like that. :x :x :x

eyedclaar

unlost dogs wrote:

I used to cross cover in a burn ICU and I can't think of anything more painful... thank God for medically induced comas...

I love, love, love animals, but for that bison the best and kindest option was to shoot him and end his suffering. I can't imagine the animal could have survived those injuries.

Agreed, it needed put down. I just can't believe it could outrun a griz with those melted legs. A griz can outrun a healthy horse over short distances. The griz probably had no food in its belly and no energy to chase something down.

Loulou

Oh yeah, sorry Aussie jargen! Yeah, like a pick-up truck! My friend who works in one of the outback vets used to see it alot! Like nearly every couple of weeks. The dogs would either be burnt badly from the road or hung by the neck from their leash. Really sad.

BinauralJam

eyedclaar wrote:

BinauralJam wrote:

eyedclaar wrote:

Happens every year in Yellowstone Park... to animals and humans.

http://www.dailyvsvidz.com/2010/11/burn ... -bear.html

Poor Cow! i would think animals would know to stay away, sad.

The animals do know. However, the ground is so unstable above some of those geothermic areas that living things wind up puncturing a thin layer of rock and fall into the boiling water beneath. There are booby traps everywhere in the backcountry of YSP. Don't fuck around with that shit if you go...

unlost dogs

I think I'll stay home and watch "National Parks" on the travel channel... from the safety of my couch...

Loulou

Hahah Me too!!!

haffajappa

unlost dogs wrote:

I used to cross cover in a burn ICU and I can't think of anything more painful... thank God for medically induced comas...

I love, love, love animals, but for that bison the best and kindest option was to shoot him and end his suffering. I can't imagine the animal could have survived those injuries.

ew yea, my best friends dad is a building maintenance engineer at a hospital and he said he can't work down there, once he was fixing something in the burn unit and he said the screaming and the smell was too much...

unlost dogs

haffajappa wrote:

unlost dogs wrote:

I used to cross cover in a burn ICU and I can't think of anything more painful... thank God for medically induced comas...

I love, love, love animals, but for that bison the best and kindest option was to shoot him and end his suffering. I can't imagine the animal could have survived those injuries.

ew yea, my best friends dad is a building maintenance engineer at a hospital and he said he can't work down there, once he was fixing something in the burn unit and he said the screaming and the smell was too much...

I can remember cross covering there and helping one of the regular burn nurses with dressing changes. Took two of us an hour and a half, working through the arm holes in the plastic sheeting encasing the ICU bed. We had to wear visors or our faces would literally stick to the plastic.

Definitely not something for the easily nauseated...

Loulou

Ooooo, poor things. I'm such a big wuss if I burn my hand cooking, I couldn't imagine what it would be like being that bad! :(

guypjfreak

"Our hot pools are well fenced off and people just can't stumble into them," he told NZPA.

what they trying to say .....he jumped ..pushed ..strange. :?

either way not a nice way to go

Loulou

Yeah, a bit strange hey? :?

guypjfreak wrote:

"Our hot pools are well fenced off and people just can't stumble into them," he told NZPA.

what they trying to say .....he jumped ..pushed ..strange. :?

either way not a nice way to go