http://www.newsweek.com/lava-selfies-tourists-mt-kilauea-eruption-arrests-hawaii-big-island-986235

Tourists in parks across Hawaii face fines of up to $5,000 and have been threatened with potential jail time for trying to get close-up pictures of fast-moving lava from the eruption of the Kilauea volcano. 

At least forty tourists to Hawaii’s Big Island have been arrested since the May 3 eruption of Kilauea, the Department of Land and Natural Resources told Hawaii News Now. Most of the tourists, and even some full-time Hawaiian residents, were arrested on loitering charges as they tried snapping selfies and traditional photos of the lava flows bursting from the volcano. Hundreds of wire service photos show lava loiterers walking on hardened igneous rock to observe intense bursts of fire and gas from the lava streams.