Expensive mistake

[Centrals]

Tourist faces up to B1m fine, 10 years" jail for sitting on endangered reef

CHON BURI: The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources registered a complaint on Sunday asking police to take action against a tourist who sat on an endangered coral reef.

www.bangkokpost.com

Serve him right

 

[drrich2]

Some quick Googling shows 1 million Thai Baht = $30,567.97 United States Dollar.

 

[waterone]

Serve him right

While what he did was not right, neither the fine or the jail term seems reasonable to me.

Wonder if they would double it if he wasn't vaccinated too....

 

[Gone for diving]

This is why you should not post pictures on Facebook or anywhere... probably even scubaboard...

 

[JMBL]

Well, I won't comment on the fine nor the prison term, but it seems too many divers aren't aware the less you touch the better...

I've been diving for a long time now, and I'm still appalled by the way some divers behave : throwing cigarettes buds overboard, chasing animals, hanging on the flora...

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

While what he did was not right, neither the fine or the jail term seems reasonable to me.

Just like our Rockefeller drug laws.

But seriously, people should know better. They should post that photo in dive shops and on boats like they do with shoplifters.

 

[Celt]

Selfish selfie!

 

[Centrals]

Posting anything on line can lead to trouble.

Mount Kinabalu naked photo accused jailed

Four tourists, including a British woman, who posed naked on a Malaysia mountain considered sacred are jailed for three days and given fines.

www.bbc.com

Just 3 days in jail and a relatively small fine.
There is no cure for stupidity.

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

There is no cure for stupidity.

There used to be but we've basically eliminated evolution from the human experience.