I visited the Yellowstone Zone of Death

To save you doing the research, my location while recording this was approximately 44.14 N, 111.05 W. I got three mosquito bites in under thirty minutes, including one on my hand.

(And the credits for this one are very old-school, so I'm adding a slightly self-aggrandising note here: I did everything for this video! The camera, the editing, the sound mix, the graphics. It's good to know I can still do that occasionally!)

(you can find contact details and social links there too)

[TomScottGo]

Two people drove past while I was setting up my camera, and I was, ever so briefly, worried.

[fascinatedbyeverything]

I like how he didn't bring a cameraman for this one. He took no chances.

[state_song_xprt]

Its absolutely hilarious to me that the "Yellowstone Zone of Death" has absolutely nothing to do with the supervolcano

[chouyi]

That is so nuts, I have fished the Idaho section of Yellowstone a few times, and am a lawyer, and I had no idea about this. Aside from making sure I carried both my Wyoming and Idaho fishing licenses and a handgun (bears are a real concern for anglers there), I wasn't thinking about the law; in fact, those mountains are where I go to escape thinking about the law!

[matasa]

"Hell no, I am not going to tempt the forces of irony like that"

This professor will survive any disaster. He's genre savvy as hell.

[ghost]

The worst thing about moving into that part of Idaho would be that every time a crime gets committed...you get a summons for jury duty.

[cymond]

"I am not going to tempt the forces of irony like that."

I like this guy.

[otokonokoyousei]

This is like if an online game disables PvP serverwide but there's a little bit of map geometry where PvP is still enabled and the devs haven't bothered patching it.

[TM-bkok]

As a native Idaho resident, you could do this anywhere basically.

[alextw]

Another problem with poaching an elk in this zone is trying to find a saucepan big enough to boil the water .

[timaidley]

I like the way you can tell that the the 'Tom drives in to Yellowstone Park' and 'Tom drives out of Yellowstone Park' were filmed within minutes of each other by the almost identical shadows on the trees in each shot.

[cerebrospinal]

I am 100% convinced that congress will not rectify this issue until someone actually tests it out.

[timwilson]

Not gonna lie, I was kind of hoping Tom was going to break a couple really obscure Idaho laws like riding a merry-go-round on a Sunday or buying a chicken after sundown without the sheriff’s permission. Like a sequel to the video about committing dumb crimes in London.

[TBRedford]

back in college, A few buddies and I drove up to the belcher ranger station and then hiked up to Dunanda falls, the few people we met on the trail were some of the nicest people I have ever met. It's probably safe to assume they were so pleasant because they had just finished murdering their worst enemies.

[dandy-lions]

An actual realistic crime that can be committed in the Zone of Death is illegal logging

[Robot-Overlord]

I just wanna say, Tom has invited me out here like 4 or 5 times saying "cmon you have got to see this, its incredible", but I keep ending up busy at the last second and he never specifies what it is I need to see, should I be worried? 😟

[shinyagumon]

I love these kind of legal loopholes.

Reminds me of the bit in the Martian where Mark Watney points out that he's actually committing international piracy by driving around Mars.

[thomasrichardson]

Looks like the mosquitos are well aware of the laws!! Great video, as always, Tom!

[Creamplayer]

It's a shame that this wasn't put to the test in the poaching an elk case, as that would have given some precedent before it gets to murder or a similarly serious crime - or if the defence had worked, there'd be more compulsion to resolve it.

[johnwelchs]

I've noticed the park is not just in wyoming. It appeared strange to me. Now this legal loophole has been illustrated, and it's extremely unsettling. In the wrong hands.