You wanna see real crazy? Imagine jumping into 200 degree water to rescue your dog. Yet it happens all the fukking time.
David Alan Kirwan and Ronald Ratliff were travelling through
Yellowstone Park in 1981 with Ratliff's dog, Moosie.
At about 1pm on July 20th, Moosie got away from the pair and dived into a hot spring.
Moosie had made a terrible mistake - as the Celestine Spring that he had dived into was known to get as hot as 200 degrees Fahrenheit (93 degrees Celsius).
With Moosie yelping in pain, Kirwan and Ratliff rushed to the terrified dog's aid.
Despite pleas from other park visitors, Kirwan dived into the boiling hot water to retrieve his friend's dog.
Swimming out to the dog, Kirwan attempted to lift them out but was unable to do so. He disappeared under the water as he let go of Moosie, before returning to the surface and attempting to escape the pool.
When Ratliff pulled his friend from the water, they discovered that he had received second degree burns on his feet.
Witnesses reportedly heard Kirwan mutter: "That was stupid. How bad am I? That was a stupid thing I did."
Kirwan had been blinded by the experience, and that wasn't the worst of it.
When somebody tried to remove his shoes, his skin came off with it.
He had received third degree burns across the entirety of his body, including his head.
Kirwan would die the following morning at Salt Lake City hospital. Moosie also didn't survive.
A man hiking through a national forest in Idaho suffered severe burns after his two dogs plunged into a hot spring and he jumped into the scalding water to rescue them, managing to save just one of his pets, U.S. Forest Service officials said on Tuesday.
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A man perished trying to rescue a dog from a Yellowstone Hot Spring
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A man was hospitalized after jumping into a hot spring in a Nevada desert to rescue a dog
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Laiha Slayton suffered significant thermal burns from her shoulders to feet, according to Yellowstone National Park officials
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The 20-year-old woman had jumped into the near-boiling water to rescue her young dog.
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A dog owner in Mexico died this month after jumping into a scalding hot spring in a failed attempt to rescue Sasha, one of his dogs.
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Those are all separate stories.