You can't fix stupid

D.E.Bishop wrote:
Back a few years we were in Yellowstone NP with our DD's. We rented a cabin to make life safer and went for a walk on the boardwalk near Old Faithful. Lovely but weird place, bubbling springs at in excess of 212 degrees F and people letting their dogs off leash. Seems one of those dogs fell in a 212+ pool and was being boiled alive when the owner went in after the dog.

The survivors sued the NPS for failure to protect their dog and the Husband/Father who was also boiled alive. However the survivors needed to win the Darwin Award too, evidential photo of the pool with a very clear and distinct warning sign was presented to bolster their case. Asked about the picture, a survivor said yeah it was there but no Ranger on site to enforce it.

They lost and had to pay court costs and emergency crew costs for those that retrieved the bodies.

Hmmmm. Dogs aren't even allowed on the boardwalks. Another reason they lost the suit?