Tourist Melts Feet in Death Valley After Losing Flip Flops

Thursday, July 25, 2024

How hot was it in Death Valley over the weekend? It was so hot that a European tourist melted the skin off his feet when he lost his flip-flops in the sand dunes, park officials said.

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Flip flops. At 123 degrees.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-07-25 12:24 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

I wonder how the indigenous people survived in these environments centuries ago.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-07-25 12:43 AM | Reply

They avoided them.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2024-07-25 12:53 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Bullseye!

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-07-25 01:26 AM | Reply

when he lost his flip-flops

Darwin candidate right there.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-07-25 08:00 AM | Reply

When I lived in CA I used to take my kids to DV every year. We'd sleep in the back of the pick-up truck and wake up to
a view of Mount Whitney the highest peak from below sea level. Geeze there are warning signs everywhere about desert danger and what not to do. Sand dunes? They were lucky it wasn't the "Devils Golf Course"... for reals. I have a chunk of that I've carried around in my rock collection for years.

Serious desert hikers wear ankle boots because you never want to lose your shoes. I don't care if it's 120C outside.

#6 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-07-25 09:07 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#5 only if he stuck his dong in the sand.

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2024-07-25 09:08 AM | Reply

I wonder how the indigenous people survived in these environments centuries ago.

The migrated up into the mountains for the cooler weather. The White Mts and the Sierra are fairly near by. There is nothing in the Death Valley region to eat or drink.

#8 | Posted by randomcanyon at 2024-07-25 09:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Being in a place called "Death Valley" is what you could call a clue.

#9 | Posted by HanoverFist at 2024-07-25 10:07 AM | Reply

What is the problem with these people, many seemingly visitors from outside USA? When we see photos of people in Yellowstone getting dangerously close to hot springs or to buffalo it is often foreign visitors wanting selfies. Maybe they see the same in their countries from Americans. Is it unfamiliarity or naivete or stupidity?

#10 | Posted by Robson at 2024-07-25 10:14 AM | Reply

Much of old Europe is a museum masquerading as a country. Climates are soft there, as they live homogeneous lives in their monoculture countries.

#11 | Posted by GOnoles92 at 2024-07-25 10:30 AM | Reply

"Flip flops. At 123 degrees.
#1 | POSTED BY LEGALLYYOURDEAD AT 2024-07-25 12:24"

"lost" the flip flops ...

I suspect he went strolling on the dunes and then (too late) he noticed the flip flops were melting. He then had no option except to run from the dunes but didn't get to a safe area before the flip flops melted/disintegrated. He'll now have a fairly unique souvenir to take home.

#12 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2024-07-25 11:18 AM | Reply

"I have a chunk of that I've carried around in my rock collection for years."
It is illegal to take anything out of a national park. How do I know? I've worked in two of them four different times and know the rules. Taking old antlers of out Yellowstone is illegal and they even put gps chips in some of them they leave near trail heads.

#13 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2024-07-26 02:16 PM | Reply

" live homogeneous lives in their monoculture countries." I do not know when you were last in Europe but those countries are hardly "monoculture" anymore but are in fact filled with foreigners from all places. Sure, they are mainly white folks but large groups of other folks live there now.

#14 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2024-07-26 02:26 PM | Reply