Somebody at Yellowstone has some seriously fat fingers.

MIAMI - A teacher's aide who forgot to put away her
marshmallows and hot chocolate at Yellowstone National Park last year
was taken from her cruise ship cabin in handcuffs and hauled before a
judge Friday, accused of failing to pay the year-old fine. Hope Clarke,
32, crying and in leg shackles, told the judge she was rousted at 6:30
a.m. by federal agents after the ship returned to Miami from Mexico.
She insisted that she had been required to pay the $50 fine before she
could leave Yellowstone, which has strict rules about food storage to
prevent wildlife from eating human food. Customs agents meet all cruise
ships arriving from foreign ports and run random checks of passenger
lists, and a warrant claiming Clarke had not paid the fine was found in
the federal law enforcement database. Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter
Outerbridge conceded there were some "discrepancies," but suggested to
the judge that Clarke appear in court again to clear up the warrant.
U.S. Magistrate Judge John O'Sullivan, who had a copy of a citation
indicating the fine had been paid, apologized to Clarke, who spent
nearly nine hours in detention, and demanded that the U.S. attorney's
office determine what went wrong.

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