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American arrested after leaving can of Coke for uncontacted tribe (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 9 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In short:

Indian police have arrested an American man who visited a restricted island and left offerings to a tribe not contacted by the modern world.

Mykhailo Polyakov had previously made two unsuccessful attempts to reach North Sentinel Island, home of the Sentinelese people.

What's next?

Local authorities say he has been released on a three-day remand "for further interrogation".

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

I really, really hope he will get prison time for this.

What a piece of garbage.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Terrible, clickbait title.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

He's lucky that he was not shot, either by the tribe or by the Indian forces

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

Someone's been watching The Gods Must Be Crazy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

The problem is, he left Diet Coke. What an evil man.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The man's an anus.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

He’s lucky to still have an anus

Perhaps he misunderstood when he overheard someone say "they eat arseholes".