Sitting on an ACTIVE volcanoe...????

Well, it must be stable enough to not worry about it. I know that there are sometimes tours up onto live volcanoes. I think some of the other stuff they do on reality TV shows is more dangerous. Like eating maggots.

I'd say it's a crap shoot, Boss--it only kills the idiots whose timing is bad.

I don't know this TV show, but I'm with you, Onyxelle. I agree, picnics & volcanoes don't mix. Is this in Hawaii?

They can touch the lava -- Really??? Maybe they could use it to make s'mores.

well, hmmm.......better safe than sorry....that's not really my motto, but the thought of it just sort of makes my forearm skin itch.

I guess I'm not much of a life/death risk taker...you dig? hahaha (i've been waiting for weeks to say that...since I saw this movie (Warriors) )

pif, yep. in hawaii....this fool was trying to light a candle on the lava...

Some people will do anything for fame...

Reality TV, huh? My tastes in reality tv runs more to fixing up gardens in two days.

I didn't watch the show, but I've always wanted to see a live volcano.

I work with a guy who sits on live volcano. He's constantly causing us to evacuate.

LOL

giggle

I'm glad you two can laugh. Not so funny for us!

Wilso....consider yourself a recipient of my sympathies

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oxy, it keeps the food warm.

Funny, Wilso! You guys need an outdoor breathing area as well as a smoking area I take it.

I think their picnic area had to be further away with the lava in the background. You would think! Damn...Kilauea wasn't that active when I went there. Although you can, at your own risk, walk right up to the lava if you're so inclined. (As David did. Stupid is the word that comes to mind.) I wanted to take a photo of this one flow, but when I stepped on a piece of hard lava, I could have sworn I felt it move. With one foot on one piece and my other foot on a different piece, I realized that the "moving" piece was sitting on top of molten lava just like a little island. I had an image in my head of me sinking into molten lava, screaming and no one able to reach me. I skeedaddled outta there quick. Some day I want to go back though, hopefully to see something more active.

A bit of info about Kilauea...it first erupted in 1983 and has been oozing lava ever since, adding to the land mass of the island of Hawai`i (the youngest island in the chain).

Check out this web site for some awesome pics and video!
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/main.html

It's very sad...

I certainly wouldn't do it; would the lava not burn your arm?

I would bet that the producers of the show have taken precautions that no one will get hurt. After all, strip away the hype, and those reality shows are "theatre". I think that the show would be taking a terrible legal risk if one of the contestants got killed or hurt. They are not stupid!

Those reality shows make me sick.