FILE - In this May 21, 2011, file photo, tourists photograph Old Faithful erupting on schedule late in the afternoon in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Yellowstone National Park officials say they've... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this May 21, 2011, file photo, tourists photograph Old Faithful erupting on schedule late in the afternoon in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Yellowstone National Park officials say they've ticketed a man caught on video walking dangerously close to Old Faithful geyser. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson,... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this May 21, 2011, file photo, tourists photograph Old Faithful erupting on schedule late in the afternoon in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Yellowstone National Park officials say they've ticketed a man caught on video walking dangerously close to Old Faithful geyser. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson,... (Associated Press) FILE - In this May 21, 2011, file photo, tourists photograph Old Faithful erupting on schedule late in the afternoon in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Yellowstone National Park officials say they've... (Associated Press) 
 
 CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials have ticketed a man caught on video wandering close to Old Faithful geyser, where he risked burns from the boiling-hot water that erupts every hour or so. 
 
 The man's actions between eruptions startled a crowd of a couple hundred people at the park's most famous attraction. At one point, he lay on the ground near the gurgling hole. 
 
 "A bunch of the crowd thought he was going to jump. We didn't know what was going to happen," said Ashley Lemanski of Harbor Beach, Michigan, who shot the video Friday. 
 
 The man appeared to urinate on the geyser while a park ranger repeatedly yelled at him to get to safety. Rangers caught up with him after he eventually walked back onto nearby boardwalks, Lemanski said. 
 
 Rangers cited him with walking off the boardwalks in a thermal area, Yellowstone spokesman Neal Herbert said Monday. Herbert didn't have the man's identity. 
 
 Just like Yellowstone's wildlife and majestic scenery, tourists behaving badly have become a target for cameras. A man captured on video harassing a bison in Yellowstone in August was sentenced to over four months in jail for the incident and other drunken behavior in nearby Grand Teton National Park. 
 
 If the man at Old Faithful relieved himself on the feature, he wasn't the first. Two seasonal park workers were fired after being caught on a webcam urinating on the geyser in 2009. 
 
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 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – “This is the park service. Get on the boardwalk!,” said an official with Yellowstone National Park after witnessing a man walking on the cone of Old Faithful last Friday. 
 
 A witness captured the incident on video. In the video, the man appears to be urinating into the geyser. He then lays down next to the geyser. 
 
 The man was arrested following the incident and charged with multiple violations, including being off-trail in a thermal area. 
 
 The man has since been released on bond, but remains under investigation. 
 
 “We take these cases very seriously,” said Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk, “The law requires people to stay on boardwalks or marked trails in thermal areas. Anyone who ignores this law risks their life and possibly the lives of emergency personnel.” 
 
 The park is unable to release a name or additional details at this time. 
 
 Geysers and hot springs are incredibly dangerous. Many people have been injured or killed by underestimating that danger. 
 
 RELATED | Video of man harassing Yellowstone bison leaves people outraged 
 
 This is the second incident for park officials in the last six weeks. Last month, a man was arrested for taunting a buffalo inside the park. He was later sentenced to 130 days in jail.
– Taunting a bison is not only unwise, it will land you in legal trouble at Yellowstone. The same applies to tempting fate near Old Faithful. An unidentified man has been charged with multiple offenses, including going off-trail in a thermal area, after he appeared to urinate in the famous hot-spring geyser while ignoring orders to move away, reports East Idaho News. "A bunch of the crowd thought he was going to jump," a Michigan woman who witnessed the stunt tells the AP. "We didn't know what was going to happen." A park ranger shouts repeatedly at the man to get back on the boardwalk in a video included with the News story. He eventually does, but not before lying down briefly, and that's where rangers arrested him.