If you live in an area heavily visited by tourists, what is the dumbest thing you've seen tourists do?
I grew up in a beach town.
On one occasion I was chilling on the beach and this couple next to me was getting smashed.
They had a 3-4 year old.
So while they were were getting blackout drunk their child was playing in the water unsupervised.
She had a floaty vest but that was it.
The current started taking this child out to sea.
I had to go out and get her.
There were a couple of tourists who decided that it would be a good idea to stand directly in the path of the Queen's guard to take a selfie with them.
Those guys don't stop for anyone, they will walk through you if they have to.
I've seen so many videos of it happening online but I never thought I'd get to see it with my own eyes.
Man, the look on their faces when they got yelled at to move out the way... it was like a weird mixture of terror and offence.
Like they completely expected them to stop and pose or something.
It always baffles me that people seem to forget that they are actual soldiers and not just some guys playing dress up for the
sake of tourists.
I work at an aquarium near the beach.
One day a couple came in holding a cup and explained to me that they had found a crab on the beach.
They were concerned that he was in distress and were not sure how to best take care of it, so they brought it to me.
I look at the cup and see a very dead hermit crab.
Basically they kidnapped a crab from his home, drowned him in a cup full of ozarka bottled water, and gave him to me to throw away.
Oh man I worked at a liquor store on Clearwater beach.
The tourists that came in with severe burns, blisters, it was awful.
Especially the people from England.
They were just burnt to a crisp and miserable.
They saved up for god knows how long to come here and they spend the first day lying on the beach and the rest of their vacation was ruined for them.
Try to reach down out of the boat on a swamp tour and pet an alligator.
Not me but an old manager: Tourist tried to put their toddler on a moose for a picture...
I worked at a historic site for the war of 1812.
We kept a log book in the staff room of all the stupid things we heard tourists say.
The most memorable was a man who at the start of the tour pointed across the bay and said that's the United States over there... it's literally the other end of town.
We are many hours away from any border.
A woman smacked her kid really hard once and said "don't touch the rocks they are really old" I mean she's not wrong but it's... rocks.
I have lived in the PNW my whole life.
You would not believe how many times people get OUT OF THEIR CARS to try and get better pictures of wildlife.
Like a moose or a bear.
I kid you not.
Also, we know you're a tourist if you're taking pictures of the deer.
Everyone else is just praying the dumb beep don't jump in front of our cars.
I lived in a historic area once, people can take self guided tours with brochures available at a nearby park.
Our house was one of the oldest in the neighborhood, iron gates and brick foot paths from the front to the backyard.
My roommates and I woke to a family in our backyard admiring the flowers and garden.
I've seen a guy climb down into an active geothermal hotspot to scoop boiling mud into a plastic container.
He looked so pleased with himself, too.
This was in a city park that had a legal disclaimer and bodycount at the gate.
Try and mess with the elephant seals.
Pretty much every year some idiot thinks it's a good idea to get up close to the 8 thousand pound cranky bastards and gets absolutely beep up
Live close enough to Banff that I visit regularly.
A tourist with a baby in a snuggly on her chest got out of her car in a bear jam, walked up to the bear and tried to hand it an orange.
Friend of mine sitting in a Cafe and drinking an espresso.
A tourist passes by and asks if she can take a photo of her.
She says fine and gets up an takes the tourists iPhone.
Now the tourists sits down on her place, takes her espresso, puts it to her mouth and signals that this is the photo she wants taken....
The people that hang out on the edge of the Grand Canyon, past the guardrails, are so stupid.
Especially when 7-10 people fal to their death from the North Rim every year.
A lot of people line up for hours to go to the first Starbucks, despite there being another Starbucks directly across the street.. it sells the exact same coffee for the same price.
There is nothing special about the first Starbucks.
People are also highly surprised by the presence of ferry boats… you know, in a city that’s surround by water on three sides.
Also please don’t complain about the rain, hills and overall cloudiness in a city that is known for rain hills and overall cloudiness.
Try to get a close up photo of a rattlesnake.
Guess what the rattle noise means?
I live in Japan, and the most common thing I hear from foreigners, in any town I ever go to is, it's just like an anime!!!!!!
!
Like beep you are standing in front of a pharmacy.
I live in Canada.
I've seen at least a few Americans show up in July and ask where the snow is because they were planning to ski later.
I've seen someone start walking towards a bison with the intention of petting it.
Luckily a park ranger noticed too and quickly put an end to the suicide by buffalo attempt.
I have seen way to many tourists in Florida try to pet wildlife.
Venice, Italy.
Please for the love of God, do not swim in the canals, the water is so dirty, polluted and it smells.
Every summer I see some tourists swimming or washing their feet in them and it boggles my mind.
Trust me you don't want to touch that water, ever.
I went to school at the University of Oxford in the UK.
It is an incredibly popular tourist destination as well as a functioning university.
Tourists have shown up in my department and asked for a tour.
If you are wearing your student robes (which is relatively common), many will take your picture without your permission.
I've had people try to follow me into libraries because they assumed if I was allowed in, so we're they
The most bizarre story I've heard was when a friend of mine woke up from a nap to find a lady in her room taking pictures.
She was a tourist who ignored the 'private' signs and wondered around trying to find unlocked doors.
Assume that everyone they meet who lives here is uneducated and unsophisticated.
Chasing bears, including grizzly bear females with cubs, is scarily common.
One guy chased a black bear up a tree trying to pet it and ended up in the hospital getting stitches.
Local Conservation Officers said that the bear was just being defensive and left it alone.
I've seen way too many people try to hike up the trails in Lake Louise wearing dress pants, dress shirt and dress shoes.
Oh, I got another one.
I was in Norway, about to get on a popular train ride that goes through the mountains with steep angles and tight turns.
When you buy a ticket for this ride you don't get an assigned seat and can sit wherever you want.
So I did.
Got on, sat down in the first best seat I saw and.. not a minute later a large Chinese group came on and their tour guide yelled at me "CHINESE ONLY!"..
I was like geez.. calm down lady..
The thing is that you could hear this group approaching, they were f'n loud.
So I did not mind at all to get on a different car, far away from them.
The makeup of this group was almost exclusively older women, let's say in their 40s - 60s or
something like that.
So I stand up to walk to the next car over, and these beep assholes are pushing and shoving, trying to get the best seat or whatever.
It was chaotic.
The exact opposite of what I'd experienced in Norway up until that point.
It's usually quiet and civilized, and you get tons of personal space.
But nope, this group was yelling, pushing, shoving, and I'm just like..
I just want to.. get to the next car.
This was the last car on the train, so I was forced to go in one direction only.. and eventually I got kind of annoyed.
The tour guide could have been a lot nicer about everything, and I'm pretty damn sure I could have stayed if I wanted to.
And all the
shoving and pushing just pushed me over the edge.
I just started walking forwards, sending old Chinese ladies to the left and right as I did so.
I don't think anybody fell, but I was just like.. "You want to push and shove?
LET'S DO THIS".
I had my hands out in front of me like a battering ram and parted the seas sort to speak in a similar fashion that an icebreaker might.
That felt incredibly satisfying.
When I got to the other car I half expected somebody to chase after me to yell at me some more or whatever, but apparently what I did was perfectly normal to them.
The rest of the ride was very enjoyable (and quiet)
Putting postcards into dog poop bag dispensers.
Tourists who get out of their cars and walk up to bears to take pictures.
beep those people are stupid.
And whats worse is they will often tell you to beep off if you try to get them back in their car.
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