Who will drink their Watneys Red Barrel now?
/obscure?

Honestly, deep down inside isn't this how everyone wants to behave toward tourists?

"Well, THIS is the worst vacation ever..."

m0llusk: Honestly, deep down inside isn't this how everyone wants to behave toward tourists?

My sister (we're a family of AZ natives) has a bumper sticker on her car -- "Welcome to Arizona. NOW GO HOME!"

We natives don't really believe in hospitality. And by native, I mean 5th generation and she's married to a Navajo.

Jeez. You'd think over time they'd forgive that one little massacre by Cortez.

submitter: Angry axe-wielding villagers

Get out of there, Leon. It's Los Plagas.

I get the same urges every time I see an American over here.

Hopefully none of them were a manager at Hardbodies.

/will become less obscure as Monday approaches

But Luca Newbold, the director of UK-based Llama Travel

¡CUIDADO! ¡HAY LLAMAS!

South America not exactly tourist friendly?

That's what happens when you go through a foreign land singing "Hi-Ho".

Huh. Like right out of a Kipling novel.

That's what we get for letting the village idiot be our mayor.

I'm just saying, somebody down there had to come up with the idea of beating tourists.

"The group ... were trying to experience a taste of Peruvian rural life"

They got what they paid for, what's the complaint?

Control_this: Jeez. You'd think over time they'd forgive that one little massacre by Cortez.

you need history lessons.

The only way to deal with spanish-speaking axe-wielding villagers:


Hotsauce-linked

When a translator finally arrived it turned out that the villagers just really wanted to know if the tour members had read Sutter Cane.

I walked into an auto body shop wearing a jacket and tie. Some employees mistook me for an insurance adjuster. Luckily, they ran away instead of beating me up.

Pic of the tourists and their guide

I guess this wasn't worth a Peru.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH thats scary

"Holidaymakers"?

Oh those Brits are so cute when they try to speak English with their made-up words. It would have been soooo much easier to understand if they just said "Vacationers".

// Vacation-makers?

/// I kid, of course.

According to the article, that trip costs about 2,000 pounds. That's an arm and a leg. The villagers were only there with their axes to collect.

/No?
//Hey, I just woke up, cut me some slack.
///With a villager's pickax.

Cue the Benny Hill music...

If you are in a working vehicle and allow yourself to be taken hostage you deserve everything you get.

They should have stayed at the YMCA.

The group - men and women aged from 22 to 65 - were trying to experience a taste of Peruvian rural life

Meh.

JesterGirl: They should have stayed at the YMCA.

It's off-topic, but they got their star on the Boulevard yesterday.
I seen their picture in the paper.

Yay Jester Girl!

"Woman... woe-man... whoooa-man."

"Look at the size of that boy's heed.
I'm not kidding, it's like an orange on a toothpick."

Yakety-Sax started playing in my head as I read the headline.

Hat Madder: The group - men and women aged from 22 to 65 - were trying to experience a taste of Peruvian rural life

Meh.

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FTA: After the situation had calmed, the Peruvian guide called the police...

Good job on that.

I'm sure the rest of their trip will be uneventful.

I Lake Titicaca

Give me that old time religion...

Google Image search for Funny Hostages, and this is the result

kernelman: The only way to deal with spanish-speaking axe-wielding villagers:

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Leon is exactly 0.37 seconds away from losing his head there.

This story ain't shiat.

Read about what land surveyors had to encounter as they were trying to establish the Public land survey system in North America in the 1800s.

They had to divide the land into township and range. 640 acres to a square mile, they had to set a point every 2640 feet in a grid.

They would have to avoid Native Americans scalping them, dying from starvation, or being killed by wildlife like bears or mountain lions.

To this day I am waiting to be run off someones property with a shotgun.

Anyone considering traveling to Peru, do it! Amazing country with a cool history. The Cordillera Blanca is a beautiful area with 6000m peaks and fascinating trails and ruins. Chavin as well as Chan-Chan near Trujillo are worth seeing.

GoSurfing: This story ain't shiat.

Read about what land surveyors had to encounter as they were trying to establish the Public land survey system in North America in the 1800s.

They had to divide the land into township and range. 640 acres to a square mile, they had to set a point every 2640 feet in a grid.

They would have to avoid Native Americans scalping them, dying from starvation, or being killed by wildlife like bears or mountain lions.

To this day I am waiting to be run off someones property with a shotgun.

Bears?

Wanted for questioning!

Tourists go home!

Just leave your money.

if they wanted to get a taste of local life, they should've shot the stick wielding locals like any other Peruvian would have done.

"We twist your titi and you make caca."

/Kinda funny, actually
//Don't poke the bear

/still waiting for the Lima Fark party so we can go chase and beat some tourists...

wait wait wait, what kind of axe?

Heh, and I just saw a commercial on BBC America encouraging visiting Peru....

I just did the 4 day hike along the Incan trail to Machu Picchu in April, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Honestly though it was the most incredible experience of my life and anyone who is remotely interested and in a position to do so should do it.

You do need to make sure you have a couple days to acclimatize, as well as be in moderately good shape (at least good enough shape to know how to pace yourself, the climb on the second day is bad, very bad).

"Oh look, honey! The rural locals are doing a cultural performance!"
*snapshot*