Yellowstone Park accident victim dissolved in boiling acidic pool

[Thumpalumpacus]

An Alkaline with a PH of anything up to about 10 (or an acid with PH down to about 4) wouldn't harm you at all in small amounts, in fact you come into contact with those kind of PHs every single day in your food, toothpaste and soaps.

It's only the extreme PHs that dissolve (at different speeds depending on how extreme), while the less extreme ones would just irritate.

Anyway what a grizzly story, vile.

Agreed, it is pretty grisly. But I was just making a point with this post about having some sense about what one is doing when deliberately disobeying signage. The guy had to know the danger (I would hope), and when he fell in, died quickly (I really would hope).

Having worked a few years at a small local nature preserve here (with plenty of visitor restrictions due to our mission), I can say from personal experience that there are an awful lot of special snowflakes who think the rules are for others but not themselves. I had a guy one time wading into Hamilton Creek for a better photo after I'd already reminded him to stay on the trail. I evicted him ... but not before pointing out three water moccasins lurking within 40' of his spot. He was a snakebite waiting to happen.

People disregard rules all the time because "it'll never happen to me" ... until, as in this case, it does.