Not his first act of courage and gallantry:
Regards,
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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Why a Diet coke?
If he really wanted to tick them off, he should have left a bud Light.
What a foolish thing to do.
They would invite him to dinner.....................As the entre..................
I would’ve left one of those motion activated Halloween toys that have glowing red eyes and scream, but that’s just me.
I like your style...
These people have lived in isolation for centuries - they have no immunity to any diseases this guy or anyone else from the outside world might have. Even if he were carrying around the latest cold strain he could wipe them out. He truly is an idiot. Hopefully the relevant authorities throw the book at him.
The reverse is also true.
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/syphilis-originated-in-the-americas-new-dna-evidence-confirms
I wonder if they found the Diet Coke? If they did I bet they shook the can.
Maybe one set of red shirts and the other set of blue shirts - to prepare them for the day they relocate to Los Angeles.
I’m thinking a Pepsi and some Mento’s . . .
Probably scared the crap out of them when they opened it after they shook it too!
I’m sure the North Sentinelese find all sorts of stuff washed up on the beaches of their little paradise with all the filth belched out by the Ganges/Brahmaputra river system.
Not his first act of courage and gallantry:
Regards,
Did they have him roasted or stewed?
“Even if he were carrying around the latest cold strain he could wipe them out. He truly is an idiot.”
He’s certainly an idiot, but unless they were willing to hand over one of their daughters to him, or have him be a house-guest for a while...they’d be fine.
Coke Zero is much better.
What was the problem?
It's the real thing. What the world wants today.
Coca-Cola's 'Hilltop' Ad ("I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing")
How would the tribe know how to open the can of soda??
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