 VIDEO: Man cited after walking on the cone of Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park 
 
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 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – “This is the park service. At one point, he lay on the ground near the gurgling hole. “We take these cases very seriously,” said Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk, “The law requires people to stay on boardwalks or marked trails in thermal areas. A man captured on video harassing a bison in Yellowstone in August was sentenced to over four months in jail for the incident and other drunken behavior in nearby Grand Teton National Park. Two seasonal park workers were fired after being caught on a webcam urinating on the geyser in 2009.
– Taunting a bison is not only unwise, it will land you in legal trouble at Yellowstone. The same applies to tempting fate near Old Faithful. An unidentified man has been charged with multiple offenses, including going off-trail in a thermal area, after he appeared to urinate in the famous hot-spring geyser while ignoring orders to move away, reports East Idaho News. "A bunch of the crowd thought he was going to jump," a Michigan woman who witnessed the stunt tells the AP. "We didn't know what was going to happen." A park ranger shouts repeatedly at the man to get back on the boardwalk in a video included with the News story. He eventually does, but not before lying down briefly, and that's where rangers arrested him.