Hikers Busted for Cooking Chickens in Yellowstone Hot Spring

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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Cooking chickens in a Yellowstone hot spring landed three people in hot water.

A park ranger heard that a group with cooking pots were hiking toward the park’s Shoshone Geyser Basin. The ranger found two whole chickens in a burlap sack in a hot spring. A cooking pot was nearby, Yellowstone spokeswoman Linda Veress said.

“Make dinner,” said defendant Eric Roberts, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, when asked Thursday what the group was up to in the Yellowstone backcountry.

As for whose idea it was: “It was kind of a joint thing,” Roberts explained.

Roberts and Dallas Roberts, of West Valley City, Utah, were ordered to serve two days in jail and pay $540 in fines and fees for the Aug. 7, incident, according to court documents.

Eric Romriell, of Idaho Falls, paid $1,250 in fines and fees. All three are banned from Yellowstone while serving two years of unsupervised probation.

Dallas Roberts didn’t have a working listed number and Romriell didn’t immediately return a message Thursday at his ophthalmology clinic.

Getting too close to and messing around with Yellowstone’s hot springs are no-nos and can be dangerous but violations aren’t unusual.

A Dutch man was ordered to pay $3,000 for allegedly crashing a drone into the park’s famous Grand Prismatic Spring in 2014.

https://kutv.com/news/local/2-utahns-cited-for-cooking-chicken-in-yellowstone-hot-spring

[Sombeech]

Dang I would have flown the drone and filled the whole thing to make it a package deal.

I wonder how they got caught, if they chose a highly popular spot. Probably took way too long to cook it too.

[oldno7]

[kiwi_outdoors]

was alcohol involved in this decision making?

[rockgremlin]

was alcohol involved in this decision making?

....like in the marinade?


Oh yeah they were almost certainly buzzed. Or stoned.

[Scott Card]

Mmmmmmm, sulphur chicken!

[BasinCruiser]

Hmmm. back in my day, they called it choking the chicken, not cooking it.

Roberts and Dallas Roberts, of West Valley City, Utah

WVC men = the Florida man of Utah.

I wonder how they got caught, if they chose a highly popular spot. Probably took way too long to cook it too.

The Shoshone Geyser Basin is a 10 mile hike in from the road - so, not as popular as all of the other roadside attractions in Yellowstone.