Who Knew !?...

[bazwillrun]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/11669592/British-woman-Eleanor-Hawkins-due-in-court-after-arrest-over-nude-photos-in-Malaysia.html

and there was me still thinking that it was mainly as a result of tectonic activity...looks like my geography teacher had it all wrong...oh well, live and learn...

[bazwillrun]

"respect the mountain "

its a lump of rock, thats all...no special powers, nada , nothing, just a lump of rock !

[gness]

And of course we in the west also have mountains considered holy and treated with respect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqzXKm6N14U

[retrocop]

"Respect for the mountain" could be interpreted as NOT carving" Baz and Shaz wos here" on a large rock face, picking the local flora, depositing litter etc.

[tamborine]

Hope these hooray henrys dont visit Lourdes

[bazwillrun]

"now set to be deported."

no years of appeals and leftie lawyers etc etc ..shame we dont do the same with all those we need to get rid of...

[mushroom25]

//i suppose having been asked that they couldn't resist doing the opposite//

when you're young, what's the first thing you do when someone tells you not to do something?

[gness]

Oh I don't know, Tambo......naked and face to face with a group of angry nuns?......☺

[andy-hughes]

gness - //...and as they were asked, before the climb, to respect the beliefs of the local people and to respect the mountain does it not appear that they acted with deliberate arrogance? //

I think it was more thoughtlessness than a deliberate attempt to offend, or ignore cultural attitudes.

Being told to 'respect the mountain' to most Westerners would be interpreted as not dropping litter, or playing loud music, but I honestly think they would not think they were being disrespectful by their actions, assuming there were no indigenous people within sight.

A valuable lesson learned - hopefully!

[youngmafbog]

3 Days in a Malay jail that should certainly teach them a lesson.

Can we send over a few who need a lesson for a 3 day spell in a Malay jail.

Or Thai or Turkish - I'm not fussed.

Oh, I forgot, the right on brigade would never allow that.

[Baldric]

A group of tourists have fun then fall victim to the Stone Age mentality of a local tribe who seriously think they caused an earthquake. I know who I'd like to see in the dock.

[andy-hughes]

Baldric - //A group of tourists have fun then fall victim to the Stone Age mentality of a local tribe who seriously think they caused an earthquake. I know who I'd like to see in the dock. //

Just because other nations' religious observations seem odd to us is no reason to ignore or dismiss them - heaven knows there is enough hoo-hah when any foreigner is perceived as doing the same to ours - even though we are nowhere near as devout in our beliefs as many others.

[ummmm]

Young...you do talk utter nonsense sometimes.

[retrocop]

How does this lady manage to go about her business in Malaya as a member of a hill tribe?
http://protomalayans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/suku-akha.html

[Baldric]

Serve them right if the tourists went elsewhere for a while, then hear them moaning!

[naomi24]

Idiots - the tourists that is.

[gness]

I'm wondering if this as very different.....would disrespectful behaviour be accepted here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKaxycRlAQ

[youngmafbog]

ummm, I take it you dont agree with me then.

Well here's news for you, I dont agree with much of what you post either!

[youngmafbog]

//Serve them right if the tourists went elsewhere for a while, then hear them moaning!//

Perhaps they really dont want to attract that sort. Can you imagine it - Stick it on Facebook or whatever and suddenly your mountain and local towns are swamped by drunk naked people cavorting everywhere.

Maybe they simply dont want to be the next Shagaluf now the Balerics are clamping dow?

[ummmm]

Suggesting we can't send some of our own criminals to foreign jails because of the do gooders is nonsense.

[naomi24]

Personally I think those tourists have no respect for themselves, so they're hardly going to respect anyone else.