June 19, 2006

Woman falls to death at Yellowstone ParkBy AP

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming -- Deb Chamberlin, a 52-year-old woman from Michigan, fell 500 feet to her death after climbing over a protective retaining wall to take a picture. The woman was visiting the park with her husband and two children from Michigan.

Her husband flagged down a passing motorist, who called 911 after the Saturday morning accident at a lookout along the Yellowstone River, park officials said.

A ranger rappelled down the canyon wall to reach the woman, but she was dead at the scene.

The woman was from Rockford, Michigan where she was vice president of the school board there. This was the second accident at Yellowstone this year.

Where do I start?
Why are people so stupid? and how do stupid people live to be 52 years old? What did she think the protective retaining wall was for? To keep animals from climbing OUT of the canyon? And how important was the picture going to be next year or in 5 years (well, if it had turned out)? People like this are the same idiots who climb over fences, through moats, over another fence and through the bars to get into the cage with tigers for pictures then get mauled to death. (mauled I like that word; mauled it's cool)
And when she's going over the wall, the husband and kids do what? Say ok that's a good idea?
I think it's plausible that this happened because there are stupid people but this sounds fishy and I think she was murdered. I'll keep my eyes open for updates but I'm writing it down now. The husband did it.