Japan cherry blossom festival cancelled because of unruly tourist ‘crisis’ (www.theguardian.com)
from return2ozma@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 06 Feb 16:29
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Nebraska_Huskers@lemmy.world on 06 Feb 16:55 next collapse

It’s an American, wasn’t it? Who shat. Im sorry on behalf of Americans.

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip on 06 Feb 17:17 next collapse

“defecating in private yards and raising a fuss when residents pointed this out,”

I wouldn’t be 100% sure but pretty likely. Esp. if alcohol was involved I can think of half a dozen European nationalities off the top.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca on 06 Feb 17:40 collapse

Well, the British are the Americans of Europe.

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip on 07 Feb 07:36 collapse

Honestly, the Germans too, at least wrt tourism.

narp@feddit.org on 07 Feb 10:02 collapse

Don’t forget the Finnish.

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz on 06 Feb 18:47 next collapse

Or the British. But they’re cut from the same cloth.

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca on 06 Feb 23:27 collapse

My guess was American or Chinese. Biggest reputations for boorish tourists.

iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world on 07 Feb 04:15 collapse

I’d go Chinese. Plenty of pictures and videos of them climbing on to the trees, or heavily shaking them, so they get their perfect picture surrounded by the falling petals.

Example video

These guys show quite a bunch of pictures www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ar8LnqQmuw

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip on 06 Feb 17:15 next collapse

I know I’m being Don Qixotean, but fuck these headlines that always give the impression that something larger happened.

Like in this case, the lack of a qualifier made me think all Japanese cherry blossom festivals were cancelled, but it was one Japanese cherry blossom festival in Arakurayama Sengen park near Mt Fuji.

That said, I have full understanding and empathy for the residents. Fuck tourists who can’t behave abroad. I wonder if they can’t behave at home, too?

enterpries@sh.itjust.works on 06 Feb 20:12 collapse

All the pieces of shit that scammed the rest of us out of our money are getting to enjoy it.