Posted on 04/03/2025 8:02:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The American tourist who was arrested visiting a remote tribe that has no contact with the outside world and left a can of Diet Coke as an “offering” is a thrill-seeking YouTuber who previously visited the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Influencer Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, who has been branded “idiotic,” traveled for nine hours in a small rubber dinghy with an outboard motor to reach North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean, where tried to get the native people’s attention by blowing a whistle and leaving soda and a coconut as tribute.
North Sentinel Island is home to one of the world’s most isolated tribes, the Sentinelese people, who are all but untouched by outsiders. The last person to visit the island, an American Christian missionary, was killed after just a few days.
Travel within three nautical miles of the island was prohibited by India’s government in 1956, and the territory is demarcated as a tribal reserve.
Upon reaching the northeastern shore of the island, he used binoculars to watch the beach from the boat in hopes of spotting the tribe, he told police.
But when no one appeared, he waded through the water to the beach where he left the can of Diet Coke and a coconut and waited on the shore for a few minutes in hopes of making contact with an islander.
When no one emerged from the island’s dense forests, Polyakov shot a video on the beach and returned to his boat, waiting for an hour and blowing a whistle to try and lure tribe members out.
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This reminds me of “ The Gods Must Be Crazy”. 😆😆
He offers them a shook up coke…..good thinking. When they open it and it shoots all over them he would soon look like a blow dart pin cushion
They heard he was going to share evidence that would implicate Hillary Clinton in criminal acts that would send her to jail .
Knowing that , the tribe members decided the risk was too great to come out and say hello .
I thought it was time to watch ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’ again, so I just put it on.
How arrogant. “Here’s what your life is missing…a can of chemicals. Bye!”
They need to start out with a case of Reingold with no pull tabs and a couple of old fashioned “church keys” let’s see if they can figure out how to use them.
“They need to start out with a case of Reingold”
Chug-a-mugs were the bomb!
my dads favorite!
It would be like Prometheus stealing fire from the Greek gods and giving it to man. It's 2025 and about time this group started to use at least one of the six simple machines man has used for centuries.
Yep. Major league idiot.
That’s great. Bills Superbowl champion tshirt picture from the natives is a must.
BETCHA THEY WOULD NEVER FIGURE OUT HOW TO OPEN THE CAN
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