Geyser Goons

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Two seasonal Yellowstone National Park concession workers have been fired after a live webcam caught them
urinating into the Old Faithful geyser.

Park spokesman Al Nash says a 23-year-old man on Tuesday was fined $750 and placed on three years of unsupervised probation for
urinating, being off trail in a restricted area and taking items from the area. The man also was banned from Yellowstone for two
years.

The second employee's case is pending.

The park's dispatch center was called after someone watching a webcam on the geyser saw six employees leaving the trail and
walking on Old Faithful on May 4.

The geyser was not erupting at the time.

Xanterra Parks & Resorts general manager Jim McCaleb says the former concession workers were hired at the Old Faithful Inn and
that such incidents were rare.