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UK student Miles Routledge reportedly flies to Afghanistan for ‘risk,’ gets rescued by British Army
NY Post ^ | 08/18/2021 | Lee Brown

Posted on 08/19/2021 6:02:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A daredevil UK student has come under fire for traveling to Afghanistan last week looking for “risk” — forcing the British Army to evacuate him in the midst of the country’s deadly chaos.

Miles Routledge, 21, told the Spectator that he picked the troubled nation to travel to after doing a Google search for “most dangerous countries to visit” — arriving Friday even though he was aware of the Taliban’s insurgency.

“I like risk,” the student from Birmingham told the Times of London, saying he had previously been to the site of the 1986 Russian nuclear disaster in Chernobyl and also hoped to visit North Korea.

“I hate lying around on a beach, so I wanted to do something a little bit different,” he said, adding that Afghanistan “looked quite nice, the food seemed amazing, and it was dirt cheap

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; british; flies; student
He visits Chernobyl and then Afghanistan and his next adventure is North Korea. You forgot Iran!
1 posted on 08/19/2021 6:02:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“You forgot Iran!”

And the Southside of Chicago.


2 posted on 08/19/2021 6:06:18 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Brits of yesteryear would have stood his silly ass up in front of a firing squad for “risking” the Queen’s military to rescue his sorry ass. Bet he’d have gotten a real thrill out of that. Should have LEFT him there.


3 posted on 08/19/2021 6:06:50 AM PDT by Segovia
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Miles is a blithering idiot.


4 posted on 08/19/2021 6:06:59 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“...saying he had previously been to the site of the 1986 Russian nuclear disaster in Chernobyl...”

At least he won’t be producing offspring.


5 posted on 08/19/2021 6:08:14 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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I see a lot of YouTube videos of people visiting Chernobyl. Its insane.


6 posted on 08/19/2021 6:09:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Made me think of a Billy Joel song. Paraphrasing:

“He was stranded in a combat zone,
He walked through Bedford-Stuy alone,
Even road his motorcycle in the rain”


7 posted on 08/19/2021 6:09:33 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Blame Biden and pray for his downfall.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Too much youthful testosterone raging through his capillaries. He should try punching out windows.


8 posted on 08/19/2021 6:11:24 AM PDT by NautiNurse (The Swiss beach volleyball team was inspired by the Jamaican bobsled team. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Mother nature will get him eventually.


9 posted on 08/19/2021 6:13:02 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (CENSORSHIP = VIOLENCE)
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Mother nature will get him eventually.

No doubt, a future Darwin Award winner. A thinning of the herd, as it were.

10 posted on 08/19/2021 6:22:18 AM PDT by Mark17 (Air Traffic Controller, retired. Father of US Air Force 1st Lieutenant, and trained combat pilot )
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Ship him to North Korea just like Miles desires, where they will beat him into spaghetti and Warmbeer his brains...


11 posted on 08/19/2021 6:22:41 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Military recruiters should be banging on that guy’s door. Tell him he can get paid for doing the dangerous stuff if he’d like.


12 posted on 08/19/2021 6:23:36 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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Exactly, he can join the SAS and have the time of his life.


13 posted on 08/19/2021 7:11:03 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would have an ‘accidental weapon discharge’.

Kill this jerk before he procreates.


14 posted on 08/19/2021 7:19:39 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More fun for him if they’d left him there and rescued a more deserving person.


15 posted on 08/19/2021 7:32:02 AM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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