Four Canadian bros who were on a tour of the United States to make travel videos and promote their line of tank tops and shorts outraged other tourists and nature enthusiasts when they were seen doing as they damn well pleased—breaking the law and endangering the fragile ecosystem of the Grand Prismatic Spring, one of Yellowstone’s most iconic features.
Their law-breaking search for epic selfies was captured by others visiting the world-renowned hot springs, one of the three largest in the world.
It seems the National Park Service and Yellowstone officials have had enough of dangerous and/or illegal behavior from tourists, particularly this early in the travel season. After the video of these men went viral, including their own (now deleted) video that showed them standing next to the sign warning that it was illegal to go off the path, Yellowstone authorities have officially issued federal criminal warrants:
Federal warrants were issued for Charles Ryker Gamble, Alexey Andriyovych Lyakh and Justis Cooper Price-Brown for walking off-boardwalk and creating a hazardous or physically offensive condition at Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park.
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A fourth member of the group — Parker Heuser — was not issued an arrest warrant. Reid said that was because park law enforcement found that he had been using a different name on the internet than what was on his driver’s license.
Not only did they violate the law at Grand Prismatic Spring, they did not have a film permit and had been chased out of another area of the park:
At one point in the video, park rangers warn the group after one of the men strips naked and runs out onto the surface of a frozen lake.
According to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, the criminal complaint also mentions an incident with the men at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.
The group posted an apology on their Facebook page and apparently headed back north to Canada. If Yellowstone officials follow through on charges and the men are convicted, they may be back to spend more time in Wyoming than they were expecting.
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