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  • naked tourists arrested, blamed for causing earthquakes
     OP - June 11, 2015, 04:35 AM
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    Four tourists accused of posing naked on Malaysia's highest mountain and blamed by locals for last week's deadly earthquake were arrested on Tuesday.

    A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Borneo island's Sabah state on Friday, triggering landslides on Mount Kinabalu that killed 18 people. Local officials blamed the disaster on a group of ten tourists who reportedly posed naked for a photograph on the mountain, saying the foreigners angered the mountain spirits at the sacred site.

    Members of the the local Kadazan Dusun tribe believe that Mount Kinabalu houses the spirits of their dead ancestors.

    The allegations sparked popular outrage in Malaysia, and authorities ordered the tourists not to leave the country. Several were reported to have already fled.

    On Tuesday, Malaysia authorities arrested 23-year-old Eleanor Hawkins. The British woman was detained when she tried to board a flight in Malaysia's Tawau airport. Later Tuesday, Dutch tourist Dylan Snel, 23, and Canadians Lindsey Petersen and his sister Danielle turned themselves in to Malaysian police, the Malay Mail reported.

    The four tourists appeared in a Malaysian court on Wednesday and were remanded in custody for four days pending further investigation, according to Sabah’s state tourism minister Masidi Manjun.

    Their lawyer Ronny Cham told The Guardian they will liked be charged with public obscenity and could face a fine as well as a three-month jail term.

    Cham told The New York Times that Malaysia police are still searching for others who appeared in the naked group photo.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/10/naked-tourists-arrested-malaysia_n_7553476.html

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  • naked tourists arrested, blamed for causing earthquakes
     Reply #1 - June 11, 2015, 04:44 AM
    Quote from: kephas on June 11, 2015, 04:35 AM

    naked tourists   causing earthquakes

     
    RASCALS......



    put them in jail...
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    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • naked tourists arrested, blamed for causing earthquakes
     Reply #2 - June 11, 2015, 07:23 AM
    Apparently along with their punishment, they may be made to take part in a sacrificial ritual on top of the mountain, hmmmm wonder what the malay tribe are planning to sacrifice lol, perhaps throw one of them off  :/
  • naked tourists arrested, blamed for causing earthquakes
     Reply #3 - June 11, 2015, 08:52 AM
    Eleanor Hawkins, a daft Foxy Knoxy.
  • naked tourists arrested, blamed for causing earthquakes
     Reply #4 - June 11, 2015, 09:03 AM
    I was going to make a topic on this. The earthquakes were caused because nudity angered the gods. Grin

    Although, they do have a way out.

    A Malaysian tribal chief has called on Western tourists who were arrested for stripping naked on top of a mountain to pay a fine of ten buffalo or face jail, it has been reported.
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    Former British public schoolgirl Eleanor Hawkins is among the group accused of 'upsetting the gods' by posing nude on the country's highest peak days before an earthquake killed 18 climbers on the mountain.

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    Mount Kinabalu, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and popular climbing destination, is considered sacred by Malaysia's Kadazan Dusun tribal group, who believe it is a resting place for spirits.

    Strong earthquakes are rare in Malaysia, which lies just outside the Ring of Fire, the belt of seismic activity around the Pacific basin.

    That may explain why Malaysian social media users speculated that the quake was a sign the spirits were angry after the group of Western tourists snapped nude photos at the summit and uploaded them on to the Internet.

    Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan also blamed the tragedy on the foreigners for showing 'disrespect to the sacred mountain'.

    He has said a special ritual will be conducted to 'appease the mountain spirit.'

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     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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