American tourist killed after encounter with hostile tribe on isolated Indian Ocean island

[MrScorpio]

By Joanna Slater
November 21 at 8:10 AM

NEW DELHI — A 27-year-old American tourist was killed by members of one of India’s most isolated hunter-and-gatherer tribes, according to police in the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The American man, John Allen Chau of Alabama, paid five fishermen to take him to North Sentinel Island, said Deepak Yadav, a senior police official in the city of Port Blair.

The island is home to the tiny Sentinelese tribe, whose members reject contact with the wider world and react with hostility and violence to attempts by outsiders to interact with them. The island is off-limits to visitors under Indian law.

Yadav said that Chau and the fishermen arrived at the island around midnight on Nov. 14. The next day, Chau used a kayak to approach the island and attempted to speak with the islanders, who have been known to fire arrows at interlopers. The fishermen told police that they last saw Chau alive on Friday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/11/21/american-believed-dead-after-encounter-with-remote-indian-tribe-hostile-outsiders/?utm_term=.3b97d894531a

Oh well, the world is less one proselytizing dumb ass.

But he was warned.

Is this a Darwin Award Winner, or did he have the misfortune of reproducing?

(By the way, if my attitude seems dismissive and unsympathetic to this guy... That's because it is.)

[Takket]

1. "To hell with the law and their wishes"

“I’m an American and exceptionalism shields me wherever ever I go!”

[MineralMan]

2. Not a tourist, really. More of a proselytizer and self-styled missionary.

He wasn't supposed to go there, but did anyhow. Now, he's meeting his maker, I suppose, if you believe that sort of thing. Maybe he got his wish.

[LanternWaste]

10. The reality of the one does not deny the reality of the other.

The reality of the one does not deny the reality of the other. Unless of course, one is an rhetorical absolutist, I suppose, if you believe that sort of thing...

[MineralMan]

12. It's the "Great Commission" that got the dude killed.

You take your chances.

[A HERETIC I AM]

3. I agree with you, the guy is...well...WAS...a fucking moron.

I've heard of this place, and I'll bet a hundred bucks they guy went there SPECIFICALLY because of the natives reputation for hostility toward outsiders.

"I'll bet they'll accept ME!"

Yeah? Surprise, motherfucker.

[LeftInTX]

4. I once saw a documentary about this Island.

Anthropologists can't even get close.

I think a Darwin Award is appropriate.

[irisblue]

5. from the article...

snip...."Chau had made four prior trips to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands starting in 2015 and arrived in Port Blair in mid-October on a tourist visa, according to police. Police also discovered a journal belonging to Chau where he wrote about his desire to spread God’s word."

Persistent dude.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Missionaries and evangelizers are all about disrespecting boundaries.

[MineralMan]

7. Maybe Trump will order an air strike on the island.

I mean an American Christian got killed, after all. Trump'll show 'em!

[jpak]

8. "Them islands got our'ins earl!!1111"

[brewens]

9. Ponce de Leon got the same treatment from the native people in Florida. No wonder. They knew about

the atrocities in the Caribbean and were expecting them.

[SweetieD]

11. They are protecting themselves from genocide.