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American missionary shot full of arrows on remote island

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An American is reported to have been killed by an endangered tribe in India's Andaman and Nicobar islands.

Fishermen who took the man to North Sentinel island say tribespeople shot him with arrows and left his body on the beach.

Local media say he was a missionary. He has been identified as John Allen Chau.

Contact with indigenous Andaman tribes living in isolation from the world is illegal. Estimates say the Sentinelese number between only about 50 and 150.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46286215

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  • Herpa Derpa
    Herpa Derpa

    No, you're just the one regurgitating the rules made by the men who came before you to justify their conquering genocide of many of the world's populations.  Religion is the disease that destroyed civ

  • They still have more diverse DNA than most of Arkansas.

  • Gene Parmesan
    Gene Parmesan

    Someone should just throw a coke bottle onto the island and see what happens.

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The fact there remain these remote tribes isolated from the modern world is absolutely fascinating. I just can't fathom why some people go out their way to fuck with them.

Just now, bolverk said:

The fact there remain these remote tribes isolated from the modern world is absolutely fascinating. I just can't fathom why some people go out their way to fuck with them.

The same reason assholes just HAVE to go on vacations to North Korea or hike the border areas of Afghanistan, because they are assholes.

7 minutes ago, bolverk said:

The fact there remain these remote tribes isolated from the modern world is absolutely fascinating. I just can't fathom why some people go out their way to fuck with them.

Yep they don't fuck with you don't fuck with them. Not really that hard to understand

He was trying to convert them to Christianity and blatantly ignored their rule of law which states don’t come to the damn island. 

But no, he tried to be a hero saying “no one can get on the island, but i can.”  Bitch who the fuck are you?  Oh I know—ya dead. 

Report I heard says he was an adventure tourists, so I am guessing he went more for the thrill than missionary work.  Either way he bought his ticket.

10 minutes ago, Pancho Negro said:

He was trying to convert them to Christianity and blatantly ignored their rule of law which states don’t come to the damn island. 

But no, he tried to be a hero saying “no one can get on the island, but i can.”  Bitch who the fuck are you?  Oh I know—ya dead. 

The power of christ compels you

Yeah.

"It's a difficult case for the police," says Mr Bhaumik. "You can't even arrest the Sentinelese."

They messed with a Missionary Man. 

Fuck anyone who fucks with these isolated tribes wherever they may be.  Also fuck anyone with a mission to convert people to their own religion.  Keep your shit within your own group of believers.  The guy had it coming.

 

6 minutes ago, mdmost said:

They messed with a Missionary Man. 

And the absolute best part of this excellent reference....   The last line of the song:

 

 

There was a woman in the jungle and a monkey on a tree.  The missionary

  • Imagine being killed by a bow and arrow. That would suck, an arrow killed you? They would never solve the crime. "Look at that dead guy. Let's go that way."

-mitch hedberg 

 

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The Sentinelese were among the first people to successfully migrate out of Africa and scientists believe they came to the Andaman islands 60,000 years ago.

if you want to see a time capsule of human beings from 60,000 years ago, this is it. It's amazing. Makes me think that the only people out of Africa were the west Africans who may have been the original modern homo sapiens, even though all the earliest fossils are in east Africa, except for a recent one in north Africa which predates all the others. 

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19 minutes ago, NowThis said:

 

if you want to see a time capsule of human beings from 60,000 years ago, this is it. 

Well that one guy wanted to see it and now he’s dead. 

add it to the list of islands of Nope

 

1 hour ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Report I heard says he was an adventure tourists, so I am guessing he went more for the thrill than missionary work.  Either way he bought his ticket.

Maybe they just found him in missionary position and the rest got lost in translation.

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the Primrose wreck can be seen from Google maps

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11 minutes ago, Loco said:

add it to the list of islands of Nope

 

I 'member that from TOS. Didn't we used to have a 'Fuck that!' thread a while back?

That's fascinating. Just the fact that a group of 50 - 150 people could survive 60,000 years is amazing. You'd think a piece of trash with some random virus on it would've washed up at some point and wiped them out.

Weird to read the story of the attempted rescue of fishermen though. An army helicopter was repelled by arrows...I mean, haven't we figured out a way around such advanced weaponry? 

16 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

That's fascinating. Just the fact that a group of 50 - 150 people could survive 60,000 years is amazing. You'd think a piece of trash with some random virus on it would've washed up at some point and wiped them out.

Weird to read the story of the attempted rescue of fishermen though. An army helicopter was repelled by arrows...I mean, haven't we figured out a way around such advanced weaponry? 

I am sure the army helicopter was under a strict no fire order.

 

29 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

That's fascinating. Just the fact that a group of 50 - 150 people could survive 60,000 years is amazing. You'd think a piece of trash with some random virus on it would've washed up at some point and wiped them out.

Weird to read the story of the attempted rescue of fishermen though. An army helicopter was repelled by arrows...I mean, haven't we figured out a way around such advanced weaponry? 

The fishermen were dead already.  The helicopter was there to recover the bodies, and it did.

And it is shocking they've survived this long with that small a population.   The bigger shocker is that the Brits left them alone when their first contact failed in 1880.  Those weren't your kinder gentler Brits of today.  Although I suppose they were kinder than the Brits of the 1400s-1700s, so they are lucky they weren't discovered by the East India Company too who would have probably just wiped them out.

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They still have more diverse DNA than most of Arkansas.

3 hours ago, Parliament said:

Shoulda brought a boom stick.

Or common cold. 

Eta - fuck this dude. 

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Someone should just throw a coke bottle onto the island and see what happens.

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I'm all out of emojis for the day 

29 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

The fishermen were dead already.  The helicopter was there to recover the bodies, and it did.

And it is shocking they've survived this long with that small a population.   The bigger shocker is that the Brits left them alone when their first contact failed in 1880.  Those weren't your kinder gentler Brits of today.  Although I suppose they were kinder than the Brits of the 1400s-1700s, so they are lucky they weren't discovered by the East India Company too who would have probably just wiped them out.

i was reading somewhere that one or two elderly natives were captured and taken on board a Euro ship (probably Brit) but died a few days on ship due to lack of immunity. They look west African, although some ancient Malay-Australo peoples like the Australian Aborigines do also, but these people REALLY look west African. I'd love to drop a 23 & me box on them, see if they figure it out. 

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If I understand correctly, I think a lot of the islands in the Philippines have a large "negrito" population as well. 

No racist. Seriously, I think that is what they're called.

Why tf do us miserable westerners have to spread our unproven beliefs on everyone else. I for one won’t be losing any sleep over this guys death.   

46 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

The fishermen were dead already.  The helicopter was there to recover the bodies, and it did.

Not according to Wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island

After the Primrose grounded on the North Sentinel Island reef on 2 August 1981, crewmen several days later noticed that some men carrying spears and arrows were building boats on the beach. The captain of Primrose radioed for an urgent drop of firearms so his crew could defend themselves. They did not receive any because a large storm stopped other ships from reaching them, but the heavy seas also prevented the islanders from approaching the ship. One week later, the crewmen were rescued by a helicopter under contract to the Indian Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).[22].

12 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Not according to Wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island

After the Primrose grounded on the North Sentinel Island reef on 2 August 1981, crewmen several days later noticed that some men carrying spears and arrows were building boats on the beach. The captain of Primrose radioed for an urgent drop of firearms so his crew could defend themselves. They did not receive any because a large storm stopped other ships from reaching them, but the heavy seas also prevented the islanders from approaching the ship. One week later, the crewmen were rescued by a helicopter under contract to the Indian Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).[22].

That's not the fishermen.  Fishermen are in this wiki.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese  January 2006.  The islanders never successfully repelled a military helicopter.

I wonder if more than half of those cheering for the tribesmen are against the castle doctrine. 

37 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Someone should just throw a coke bottle onto the island and see what happens.

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31 minutes ago, NowThis said:

i was reading somewhere that one or two elderly natives were captured and taken on board a Euro ship (probably Brit) but died a few days on ship due to lack of immunity. They look west African, although some ancient Malay-Australo peoples like the Australian Aborigines do also, but these people REALLY look west African. I'd love to drop a 23 & me box on them, see if they figure it out. 

That would be interesting.  I wonder if they'd all identify as siblings in a DNA test.

Just now, FondrenRoad said:

That would be interesting.  I wonder if they'd all identify as siblings in a DNA test.

They're not from Appalachia

long time ago, someone surmised their origin was Gregory Gym. I don't believe that but whatever!

Now, do they fish? in the middle of the ocean and they don't venture off the island.  Really is very intriguing in all aspects, would be cool to fly a thermo night vision drove over them, see what they are doing. No sign of cooking fires either, no smoke? So it's all lizards and fruit? We should charter a boat and go. 

Jokes aside - this is fucking awesome. He stepped out of bounds and they murked his ass. 

If you get shot and killed by an arrow in 2018 that's natural selection. 

7 minutes ago, NowThis said:

long time ago, someone surmised their origin was Gregory Gym. I don't believe that but whatever!

Now, do they fish? in the middle of the ocean and they don't venture off the island.  Really is very intriguing in all aspects, would be cool to fly a thermo night vision drove over them, see what they are doing. No sign of cooking fires either, no smoke? So it's all lizards and fruit? We should charter a boat and go. 

Crazily they don't use fire.

From wiki:

"The Sentinelese are a hunter-gatherer society subsisting on hunting, fishing, and collecting wild plants. There is no evidence of agriculture or fire making.[10] The Sentinelese language is an unclassified languageand is not mutually intelligible with the Jarawa language of their nearest neighbours.[5] The Sentinelese are designated as a Scheduled Tribe.[11]"

3 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

Crazily they don't use fire.

 

and they don't use cheese

They don't use jelly 

or any of these...

35 minutes ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

I wonder if more than half of those cheering for the tribesmen are against the castle doctrine. 

I’ve never seen anyone on this or tos that’s against cd.  The only argument is how it’s accomplished. These folks use bows and arrows so props to them.  

The source, who asked not to be named, said Chau wrote that he was "doing this to establish the kingdom of Jesus on the island...Do not blame the natives if I am killed."

game.set. Non-fire match.

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a guy dies and manages to get under the skin of a bunch of people who never knew him.  

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