He left them a coke can? That feels like peak 1980s jingoism.
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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Everyone knows that it's a bottle of coke you need to leave anyways. I saw it in an 80s documentary.
Hey you guys, have you heard the good news about our Lord and Savior, Soda?
I would appreciate it if hyper advanced aliens came to earth. That said, I wouldn't want some random crackpot alien coming to earth doing no due diligence and leaving us with nothing but hyper soda before leaving and never coming back
LEAVE THE SENTINELESE ALONE. They obviously don't want to be contacted and corrupted by the outside world and I can't blame at all. The only people they hurt are invaders to their island. The Indian Government is right to protect their isolation.
Agree fully. Thought crosses my mind though our of curiosity, I keep thinking it's a "the village" sort of situation where the elders are controlling the tribe and the young uns want to explore the outside world but aren't allowed to or are opressed into thinking some crazy demons are out there
I'm not sure about that headline, ABC. How about, "arrested for risking killing hundreds of people with COVID/disease, in order to make YouTube content". This way you can't be smug and cute about a genuine risk, or the application of law by foreigners.
“Risk wiping out an entire ethnic group”
Scum
I really, really hope he will get prison time for this.
What a piece of garbage.
The man's an anus.
He's lucky to still have an anus
The Sentinelese last made international headlines in 2018 after they killed a 27-year-old American missionary
The body was not recovered and there were no investigations over his death because of the Indian law prohibiting anyone from going to the island.
Odd how it tends to be Americans that do this. Bizarre settler colonial mindset.
He’s lucky to still have an anus
Perhaps he misunderstood when he overheard someone say "they eat arseholes".
Someone's been watching The Gods Must Be Crazy.
But obviously unclear on the concept. The key was the bottle, not the contents.
You can tell he hasn't watched a single episode of Star Trek if he doesn't even know about the prime directive.
Its stated aim is to protect unprepared civilizations from the danger of starship crews introducing advanced technology, knowledge, and values before they are ready.
Now all I can visualize is Kirk beaming down random bottles of Saurian brandy to unsuspecting civilizations.
He's lucky that he was not shot, either by the tribe or by the Indian forces
In January 2006, two Indian fishermen, Sunder Raj and Pandit Tiwari, were fishing illegally in prohibited waters and were killed by the Sentinelese when their boat drifted too close to the island. There were no prosecutions.
There was something funny about this paragraph to me.
I was joking with my sister that the tribe will be the 3rd party that has the formula for coke after they taste that one can and their entire culture devolves into trying to create more.
The problem is, he left Diet Coke. What an evil man.
"hey we just came up with a much better version of this drink you left for us. next to ours, yours taste like shit"
Terrible, clickbait title.