Tourists can be embarrassing, but every now and then a traveller does something so jaw-droppingly stupid it makes headlines, like these folks.
But every now and then a traveller does something so jaw-droppingly stupid it makes international headlines.
From critical mistakes on planes to expensive moments of clumsiness, here are some of the dumbest tourists the world has seen in recent times.Disneyland turned out to be the trippiest place on Earth for one visitor. Picture: Disneyland ParisA Swiss tourist visited Disneyland Paris in 2019 and decided it would be a good idea to take LSD. He fell into a lake.
When he didn’t resurface, his girlfriend reported it to park staff and they immediately began looking for him. The search included 10 police officers, 30 firefighters, 80 Disneyland employees, a helicopter and a thermal camera, according toThe following morning, a driver in a nearby town came across a naked man walking along the road. The driver returned him to Disneyland Paris, where he was identified as the missing man.
The couple were then arrested for narcotics use but were eventually let go with a citation. Worst. Trip. Ever.Source:istock At an airport in Mongolia in April last year, a 66-year-old Chinese woman reportedly threw six coins at the jet engine when she was boarding the plane. After being removed from the aircraft, she told authorities she was praying for a safe flight. Concerned the rogue coins could damage the engine, passengers were transferred to a new plane, delaying them for two hours.Few things are quite as terrifying as the wrong door being opened on a plane – even when it’s still on the tarmac.
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