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The lava flow currently creeping across Hawaii Island’s Puna region is luring residents to the flow front like moths to a flame.
But while some onlookers sat in lawn chairs outside police-enforced barricades, patiently waiting to see the flow cross the street, Puna resident Ruth Crawford drove to a lobe of the flow to see it firsthand. She and friends allegedly trespassed on county property and dunked a bunch of household objects — like golf clubs, forks, coins and an egg beater — into the lava for fun.After telling the media about the adventure, Crawford and her friend Stephan Paul Koch were arrested and charged with second-degree criminal trespassing. They were released on $250 bail.