We rounded up the most outlandish tourist behavior we’ve seen this season.
From a travel perspective , this summertime has been a lot .
As usual , people have been traveling more than the rest of the yr , but that is n’t really what I mean . What I really mean is that travelers have been take up things to the next level , both in a full and bad path , making it one of the wildest summer in travelling . It has been consequential , frompeople risking their lives seek to take a selfie with a bisonto travelers hop-skip onthe angry " rawdogging " flying trend .
So many thing happened that it ’s hard to keep cartroad . But do n’t worry — we took a facial expression back and labialise up the wildest moments from summer travelling to jog your memory and maybe incite a laugh or two , too .
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Tourists got sprayed with water guns in Barcelona
If you were a tourist in the Spanish metropolis this summer , you might have been a dupe of these flack . course up with the overtourism and rising costs of live partially due to the gain in tourist , Barcelona resident took it upon themselvesto " spray the tourists away " with water guns , assure them to " go home . "
A tourist vandalized a UNESCO site
Some citizenry just do n’t respect culture and protected website . This summertime , a man was caught carving a nameon a 2nd - century wall in the iconic Archeological Park of Pompeii , Italy , a UNESCO website . The wall had to be bushel , and he had to pay off for it , which I ’m certain was n’t cheap .
People playedTemple Runin a Cambodian temple
No , they did n’t pull out their phone to play the iconic game . Instead , they cheer the game . PerThe New York Post , tourists have been desecrating the Kampuchean tabernacle of Angkor Wat , which is also a UNESCO site , by try out to roleplay real - lifeTemple Runinside of it . It ’s serious and plain disrespectful .
Katy Perry got fined in Spain
Katy Perry sleep with Spain ’s Balearic Islands so much that she make up one’s mind to take one of her medicine video in Formentera . Yet , according to authorities , she stomp on some very protected born sand duneswithout acquire the correct authorization first , and the Spanish authorities start an investigating on the subject .
People started rawdogging flights
For no understanding other than a TikTok trend , the great unwashed decide this summer was the good sentence to make their long - haulage flights more scurvy than they already are . On the societal media political platform , people competed to see who managed torawdogthe farseeing flying . Therawdogging flightrules are simple : no amusement of any kind and no quietus either — just stare at your surroundings without music , Book , movies , and so on . One military man decide to go the extra mile andchallenge himself to handwrite 2,000 athletes ’s namesbefore his plane landed seven hour later .
Tourists wouldn’t leave royal horses alone
And as a result , they had to pay the Leontyne Price for it . This summer , one particular tourist apparently angered a horse do in the British Royal Guard in London . After getting a little too close-fitting to take a photo with the horse cavalry and the guard , the tourist was sting by the horse , which was caught on TV . To be fair , there was a big signaling warning about horse bites and kicks , but I imagine the photo is worth the risk for some people .
Tourists wouldn’t leave Yellowstone’s bison alone, either
Unlike horse , bison are pretty dangerous . They ’re immense , and they are n’t the friendliest of animals , which means that you really should n’t get near them because they might send at you unexpectedly . A Yellowstone National Park visitor had enough confidence , however , to think it would be a good idea to get closemouthed to a bison to pet it and photograph a selfie with it . The result?She almost got trampled by the beast , which is n’t very surprising .
A passenger destroyed an American Airlines check-in desk out of frustration
This one is fairly recent . AsThe New York Postreports , after realizing a little too late ( they were already at the aerodrome ) that they buy a fake flight ticket from a scammer , a traveller pay back fabulously upturned and started put down the American Airlines foresee with a hammer .
