Not an American tourist this time
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There's a weird moment where it's "Fuck, here we go aga... wait... it's not our fault this time?"
UN: "USA, NO!"
USA: "What? I'm right here."
UN: "Sorry, force of habit. GERMANY, NO!"
It's just a little corrupt, the democracy's still good, the democracy's still good
When pigs fly hahahahahahahahahaha wa what
I think I've seen this movie, the American runs in afterwards in a fedora. /s
Whilst being from a country with delusions of grandeur seems to make them more likely to exist (or at at least more likely to feel free to act like that), all nationalities have wankers.
Good. Wish more locals in tourists hotspots would gang up on asshole tourists. Like Bali is infested with entitled westerners and asshole bogans. It’s the colonial mindset these tourists have.
The rise of the digital nomad is just soft colonialism with tech bros.
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I know a woman who is insanely entitled and is currently in Bali. I feel bad for the locals who have to experience her presence
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Fuck yes. Doesn’t matter if you’re a German tourist in Mexico, an American tourist in Japan, or a Chinese tourist at an American buffet— respect the local etiquette if you are going to travel.
I wish more people got their asses kicked for violating historic places and things.
Or, really, any stupid shit when visiting somewhere. I'd have loved it if that "influencer" that yoinked that wombat got flogged in the public square like she deserved.
Remember how a bunch of pissants from LA were damaging and even killing Joshua trees? I do, the trees still hunger for profligate blood.
Abso fucking lately.
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Hell yeah! When you're visiting another country, you are a guest in their country and should obey their laws and rules.
Lucky that he didn't get his heart ripped out and the head thrown down the steps
A German tourist
Sorry for not sending out best. I hope the guys wore socks in sandals at least to properly represent our national outfit.
Every country has its idiots, but none moreso than America right now.
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I used to work in a tourist area of CA, and most German tourists are very friendly and usually have a good dry humor, only ever had one be rude, but I think he was an offical going to the military base and not a tourist. He didn't like me walking past the lobby in a restaurant he was waiting to be seated in, I don't know how it is elsewhere, but when your picking up and paying for a to go order in the US, you don't wait to be seated, you just go to the front of house area and pay, typically front of house worker or owners aren't seating people unless it's an incredibly slow.
German tourists in Spanish resorts are the ones who will go out at night to put their towels on the pool chairs to reserve them for the next day, something which only ever works because other people are too polite to just thrown the towels away when they get there in the morning.
In my own experience living in a couple of countries in including big tourism destinations, people from bigger and wealthier countries have a bigger tendency to behave as entitled wankers who think that they own the place when out of their country than people from smaller or poorer countries, so in touristic places you get for example more Germans, Brits and Americans doing "I don't care for others" stuff than say Dutch people or Greeks (whilst, curiously, in their own countries they tend not to behave like that, or at least not as overtly so).
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Eh don't feel too bad, death valley will consume 10 of your countrymen by the closing of summer. Seriously there's running bets on my area about how many Germans will die and from what, safe bet is 5 from heatstroke.
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I was lucky enough to go there when they still allowed people to go up the temple at Chichen Itza, and it was pretty cool, but I couldn't image just climbing shit they tell you not to. Especially when the reasoning is protecting heritage.
Honestly, he's lucky he didn't trip on the way down. Those stairs are steep.
oh shit... i was there on that day! and i missed it...
I bet you'd have been able to see it from the top of that pyramid though.
Sounds like an episode of Always Sunny.
Good. That's what they get for being a jackass.
The headline annoys me, it makes it sound like a hapless tourist was attacked by vicious indigens.
I can well imagine how they told him not to do it, and eventually had to resort to physically getting him back down when he just didn't listen. Maybe technically an attack, but at the very least it should've read:
"Tourist violating ancient artefacts attacked and restrained by locals" or some such.
I've seen enough of these stories that it was very clear that they climbed the temple (a no no) and was quickly karmaed by locals. Which is the proper way of things.
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I climbed that pyramid forever ago when it was still legal to do so.
Tons of people were going up & down. I didn’t realize things had changed and that it was also on the list of “new” 7 wonders of the world.
It was a bitch coming down though because it’s so steep.
Anyway, dude should have known better.
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Sounds like a cause for human sacrifice
Mayans usually only sacrificed nobility. This dude got a "von" in his name?
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Good, now sacrifice him to whatever God they believe in
Lucky they didn’t get their heart cut out and show to them like in the good ol days
I have no problem with this.
Idiots.
What an idiot not only for potentially damaging an ancient pyramid but also because those stairs are only about 3" deep and it would be incredibly easy to come tumbling off that when coming back down. I scaled one that was maybe 10 feet tall outside Playa Del Carmen (not a perserved one but one you can climb on) and even that was terrifying to come down as a tall person.
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