I visited the Yellowstone Zone of Death
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Published 2022-07-18
To save you doing the research, my location while recording this was approximately 44.14 N, 111.05 W. I got three mosquito bites in under thirty minutes, including one on my hand.
(And the credits for this one are very old-school, so I'm adding a slightly self-aggrandising note here: I did everything for this video! The camera, the editing, the sound mix, the graphics. It's good to know I can still do that occasionally!)
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All Comments (21)
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Two people drove past while I was setting up my camera, and I was, ever so briefly, worried.
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I like how he didn't bring a cameraman for this one. He took no chances.
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Its absolutely hilarious to me that the "Yellowstone Zone of Death" has absolutely nothing to do with the supervolcano
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That is so nuts, I have fished the Idaho section of Yellowstone a few times, and am a lawyer, and I had no idea about this. Aside from making sure I carried both my Wyoming and Idaho fishing licenses and a handgun (bears are a real concern for anglers there), I wasn't thinking about the law; in fact, those mountains are where I go to escape thinking about the law!
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Considering how many people disappeared in Yellowstone it is creepy that this loophole exists...
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"I am not going to tempt the forces of irony like that." I like this guy.
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This is like if an online game disables PvP serverwide but there's a little bit of map geometry where PvP is still enabled and the devs haven't bothered patching it.
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"Hell no, I'm not going to tempt the forces of Irony like that". Some would call that superstitions. But he's absolutely right.
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Another problem with poaching an elk in this zone is trying to find a saucepan big enough to boil the water .
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The worst thing about moving into that part of Idaho would be that every time a crime gets committed...you get a summons for jury duty.
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0:53 “So, I’m gonna explain thi-“ (Gunshot) (Video ends)
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I just wanna say, Tom has invited me out here like 4 or 5 times saying "cmon you have got to see this, its incredible", but I keep ending up busy at the last second and he never specifies what it is I need to see, should I be worried? 😟
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"Hell no, I am not going to tempt the forces of irony like that" This professor will survive any disaster. He's genre savvy as hell.
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As a native Idaho resident, you could do this anywhere basically.
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As a nearby resident of the "Zone of Death", bing eaten alive by mosquitos there is a real possibility. One of the most mosquito infested areas in the lower 48 states.
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I've noticed the park is not just in wyoming. It appeared strange to me. Now this legal loophole has been illustrated,and it's extremely unsettling. In the wrong hands.
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An actual realistic crime that can be committed in the Zone of Death is illegal logging
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Not gonna lie, I was kind of hoping Tom was going to break a couple really obscure Idaho laws like riding a merry-go-round on a Sunday or buying a chicken after sundown without the sheriff’s permission. Like a sequel to the video about committing dumb crimes in London.
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Anyone else binging Tom's old videos following his farewell?
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I love technicalities! Was on a jury once for someone pulled over in a work zone for speeding. He tried saying he was past the work zone when he was speeding at 11pm. The lawyer did say that signs were posted , but never mentioned if anyone was actually working at 11pm. The law states that it for it to be a work zone, it must have signs AND workers present.... we really didnt have much to go one though.
