Nude Pictures taken on Mount Kinabalu

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Those involved have been arrested. One of the people involved (a British woman). Is apparently upset and afraid....

Now I don't understand why you'd go to another country and do something like this. You wouldn't do it next to a war memorial in London, US or some other western country. So why do it somewhere in the East.

Police say they have detained four Westerners suspected of posing naked on the mountain, considered sacred by locals, days before an earthquake killed 18 climbers

A British woman is among four Westerners detained by Malaysian police on suspicion of posing naked on Mount Kinabalu, a peak considered sacred by locals, just days before an earthquake killed 18 climbers.

Police obtained a court order to detain the foreigners for four days and could charge them for indecent behavior, said Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman, police commissioner in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah where the mountain is located. They could also be tried in a native court, a decision on which has yet to be taken by tribal authorities, officials said.
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- Source - Telegraph
 
Not sure how old they are but if young kids/teenagers, well kids do daft things. Not looking good though espeasialy how much they racked off there mountain god.
 
I don't understand what the problem is, these people go on their gap yahs to experience other people's cultures - and now she is.

I look forward to the next Hostelworld advert where the lad from Warrington finds himself banged up in a Thai slammer cos he and that Argentinian woman have been dealing drugs.
 
DAIR said:
Those involved have been arrested. One of the people involved (a British woman). Is apparently upset and afraid....

Now I don't understand why you'd go to another country and do something like this. You wouldn't do it next to a war memorial in London, US or some other western country. So why do it somewhere in the East.
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Perhaps they didn't realise that the mountain was sacred to locals before getting naked for pictures? It's quite possibly an offence of ignorance rather than a wilful attempt to disrespect the feelings of locals and I think intention has to count for something in such matters.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Perhaps they didn't realise that the mountain was sacred to locals before getting naked for pictures? It's quite possibly an offence of ignorance rather than a wilful attempt to disrespect the feelings of locals and I think intention has to count for something in such matters.
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As we get told often enough though, ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law, and they have also been accused of urinating (hell, if I was on top of a mountain and needed to pee I wouldn't give it a second thoguht) and cursing at one of the staff who tried to stop them.

Saying that, it's amazing the ignorance on display in that country when a minister correlates their actions to upsetting the mountain spirits and causing the earthquake :eek:
 
Freakbro said:
As we get told often enough though, ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law, and they have also been accused of urinating (hell, if I was on top of a mountain and needed to pee I wouldn't give it a second thoguht) and cursing at one of the staff who tried to stop them.

Saying that, it's amazing the ignorance on display in that country when a minister correlates their actions to upsetting the mountain spirits and causing the earthquake :eek:
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Ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law in the UK - it might be in other countries... :p I do take the point that ignorance isn't an excuse and shouldn't necessarily be used as one but part of UK law is you need mens rea (a guilty intention is a loose translation) to be guilty of crimes except in cases of strict liability offences.

The excerpt given didn't list any other offences for this group but if that is the case then it does sound as if there might be more than just ignorance at play.
 
Just students having a laugh and not thinking through the consequences and locals who are behind the rest of the world by a good hundred years. The locals should be grateful really if we turned the clocks back a hundred years we'd be going over there and shooting them for fun in our gap years.
 
wordy said:
Don't commit indecent behaviour, fail to see a problem.
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Yep! Getting undressed is so indecent...!;)

More seriously all they have done is the typical "naked looking th other direction" pose, which is done all over the place by thousands of people. I'm sure I've even seen people do it on that mountain before. Unfortunately for them they did it in a country with even less sensible laws than the UK and the image was seen before they got out the country.

Perhaps someone should point out to the minister that the idea it caused an earthquake is ridiculous and if he continues thinking that then perhaps we should be removing his western designed toys, you know, just in case his high end car or hgh rise office annoys the gods...:p
 
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