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Dumb things tourists do
50 tourists stranded on iceberg
Close to 50 Tourists Stranded on Iceberg in Southeast Iceland | Iceland Review Baby Dolphin dies while tourists take selfies with it https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/02/18/endangered-baby-dolphin-dies-after-swimmers-pass-it-around-for-selfies/ Did people do stupid stuff like this back in the day? Ugh. |
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02-18-2016, 12:22 PM
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There is a Wild Hippo Encounter exhibit at the L. A. Zoo. anyone can reach into the cage and pet a baby hippo or the mother. What can possibly go wrong ?
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02-18-2016, 12:31 PM
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Just came back from Iceland, we were at this beach just after this happened:
Tourist Dies on Reynisfjara Beach | Iceland Review
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02-18-2016, 12:31 PM
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We get lots of dumb tourists down here in NZ.
French tourists who peed out car window given police warnings | Stuff.co.nz |
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02-18-2016, 11:52 PM
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And then there are the idiots who pose nude or partially nude for photos at religiously sensitive sites like Angkor Wat. No sympathy whatsoever for whatever the local cops do to them.
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In the past four years, the power company which operates the only tidal power generating facility in North America has had to put in new booms on the upstream (intake side) and new fences on the tail race side to keep stupid people from hurting themselves. For the first three decades there was minimal fencing. People seemed to have a greater sense of self-preservation.
Sure climb down over wet rocks to take pics of several hundred tons of water/second coming out of the plant. What could possibly go wrong? One fellow, when I caught up to him, I didn't even dare speak to him until he turned back from his photography for fear I would startle him and cause him to lose his balance, putting him into the water. Similarly in Nova Scotia's most photographed spot, Peggy's Cove, there is a debate about erecting fences on the rocks because a couple of people are washed into the North Atlantic each year. Again, don't walk on wet rocks! Best Les
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Please don't put up fences. That will discourage the stupid people from their Darwinian acts.
I think we need to remove many of the the warning labels and let the stupid people eliminate themselves.
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02-19-2016, 06:17 AM
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Only Porsche
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