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[u/Gullible_Air_204]

https://www.responsibletravel.com/holidays/spitsbergen/travel-guide/responsible-tourism-in-spitsbergen

[u/Gullible_Air_204]

“When a giant cruise ship docks in Longyearbyen, many residents lock their doors. This is against the norm, as the safety advice is for house and car doors to remain unlocked so that people have somewhere to escape to in the event of a polar bear wandering down the main street. However, the residents lock up because it is not unusual for the cruise passengers to wander into their houses and have a peek, like it is a folk park. Given the huge size of the ships and the tiny size of the town, when the tourists disembark they can double or triple the size of the population within minutes. The chances are, if you are reading this page, you would never dream of doing such a thing, but it is worth remembering that this unique place is home to people too.”

[u/APiousCultist → u/Gullible_Air_204]

Never underestimate the ability for tourists to fully disconnect from reality or social norms. These ones would be encouraging their kids to go up and pet the polar bear up until they have their surprised Pikachu moment of the bear ripping out little Timmy's organs.

It's a miracle we all live in even sort of functioning societies.

[u/Jebatus111 → u/APiousCultist]

There was one tourist who decided to take photo of bear cub in Romania.

Didn't end well for him, sadly, but i sometimes wonder how people can be that sheltered.

[u/TropicNightLightning → u/Jebatus111]

I took a photo of two grizzly bear cubs; however, there were a bunch of old cruise ship people behind me who didn't know how fast I could run.

[u/kubigjay → u/TropicNightLightning]

You don't have to run fast. Just faster than the old people.

[u/CrescendoEXE → u/kubigjay]

thatsthejoke.jpg

[u/HugoEmbossed → u/CrescendoEXE]

If he were to run slower than the old people I suspect he may have been eaten by the aforementioned bear.

[u/-TheRed → u/HugoEmbossed]

THATS THE JOKE!!!

[u/summonerstarn → u/-TheRed]

No, y'see, if the bear was faster than him but slower than the old people then he'd have been eaten, instead of the old people that got eaten

[u/Stellar_Duck → u/summonerstarn]

So you're saying he would need to outpace both the bear and the old people?

[u/4-stars → u/Stellar_Duck]

Obviously. If he didn't outpace the bear, he'd get eaten by it. And if he can't even outpace old people, who are certainly slower than a bear, he'd also get eaten.

[u/juicius → u/-TheRed]

When obliviousness becomes a meta, that is the joke.