…ever had a bad idea but you were to immediately able to identify it as a bad idea and didn’t act on it thanks to common fucking sense? This guy didn’t. Apparently he planned to interact with the North Sentinelese tribe. If you didn’t know this tribe has been in the news before and has not been in contact with modern society for 30,000 years until recently. They have been known to ATTACK low flying aircraft, boats, and even people who venture onto the shore. These facts have been known for a few years. But just like the tide pod kids another millenial decided to ignore the facts and have a go unfortunately with Fatal consequences and now authorities are having issues recovering his body.
FoxNews reports Indian authorities were struggling Thursday to figure out how to recover the body of an American who was killed after wading ashore on an island cut off from the modern world.
John Allen Chau was killed last week by North Sentinel islanders who apparently shot him with arrows and then buried his body on the beach, police say.
But even officials don’t travel to North Sentinel, where people live as their ancestors did thousands of years ago, and where outsiders are seen with suspicion and attacked.
“It’s a difficult proposition,” said Dependera Pathak, director-general of police on India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where North Sentinel is located. “We have to see what is possible, taking utmost care of the sensitivity of the group and the legal requirements.”
Police are consulting anthropologists, tribal welfare experts and scholars to figure out a way to recover the body, he said.
While visits to the island are heavily restricted, Chau paid fishermen last week to take him near North Sentinel, using a kayak to paddle to shore and bringing gifts including a football and fish.
It was “a foolish adventure,” said P.C. Joshi, an anthropology professor at Delhi University who has studied the islands. “He invited that aggression.”
Joshi noted that the visit not only risked Chau’s life, but also the lives of islanders who have little resistance to many diseases.
“They are not immune to anything. A simple thing like flu can kill them…