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Few things test your patience like working with people. We found a few Reddit threads where tourist guides share the funniest, strangest, and most infuriating things their groups have said and done. From ignorant questions to outright reckless behavior, these stories show that leading others through new places isn't just about showing the sights, it's also about managing chaos, keeping them safe, and holding it together when you have every reason to lose your marbles.
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#1
I worked at a living history farm museum. I had a kid that was climbing on stuff the whole tour in the farm house and trying to get behind the Smith in the blacksmith shop during a demo.
After the tour when people are allowed to roam the grounds, I hear his mom screaming and look over to the barn and this kid has climbed the fence into the field with our long horn oxen and is trying to poke them with a stick. I walk over and calmly told him to get out of the field before our lazy oxen decide they've had enough, but this jack off decides to look me in the eye and smack Ted on the a*s with the stick like it's a riding crop. Ted, bless him, just kinda jumps a little and whips his head around with a WTF dude look on his face. But seeing as he's a long horn, he just wipes this kid out with one of his horns when he turned his head. Kid goes flying into the dirt and is having a melt down. Mom is freaking out. I'm like dude, get the hell out of the pen before Ted actually gets mad.
So this kid is crying and trying to climb the fence out of the field and Bill, who has been watching this whole thing waits until the kid is almost over the fence and walks up to him and nudges him in the a*s with his nose and pushes him off the top of the fence. It was everything I could do to keep from laughing.
Kid was fine, Ted was fine, but the kid and his mom were promptly kicked out of the museum. Their dad and little sister were allowed to stay because she was well behaved and was just enjoying petting the goats at the petting zoo. So since the kid had to leave but his sister didn't there was a temper tantrum in the parking lot that could be heard all the way to the other side of the farm. But the oxen got some extra grain that night, so I guess they won in the end.
xolitaire 4 months ago
I love that Bill is not introduced at all, he just suddenly exists and his name is enough to explain who or what he is
Ozymandias73 4 months ago
Sounds like one of the kids from W***y Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Glad he wasn't hurt, but got what he deserved.
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
Good dudes , even oxen have a sense of humour 😂😂I would not have kept a straight face when bill did that 😂😂
Despite all of their challenges, tourist guides are doing an excellent job. Their services are making a major comeback.
According to data from booking platform GetYourGuide, nearly all (94%) leisure travelers who booked a guided tour in 2023 plan to do it again.
The demand for local expertise is also clear, with 89% of travelers believing that a local guide is the best way to explore a new destination.
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#2
My uncle was a tour guide in Iceland, some time ago. He once guided a group of Americans around the country and stopped at a glacier in the middle of nowhere. He explained to the group that this glacier had been here for thousands of years and that it doesn't melt. The group then went back to the bus to carry on, but my uncle notices that a woman was carrying a big piece of the glacier towards the bus, so he stops her and says:
"I'm sorry, you can't bring that onto the bus, it will melt." The woman quickly responded:
"But you said it doesn't melt." My uncle stood there for a while, dumbfounded by the amount of stupidity that was in that answer, before finally saying:
"Okay, but you'll have to put it in your backpack and keep it in there for the whole journey." The woman readily agreed and started to empty her backpack to make space for the big block of ice.
Needless to say this didn't end well for the woman, as the ice obviously melted in her bag.
PawCamp 4 months ago
Okay, but sometimes people have brain farts and just don't understand things. Not everything has to be about proving a point; sometimes we can calmly explain that it does melt, even though we said it didn't, it just doesn't melt intact. We don't always have to act like everyone that does something silly is an idiot or a Karen.
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Nikki Sevven 4 months ago
As an American, I'm embarrassed. Honestly, it's amazing she managed to book a flight, a hotel, and a guided tour.
L.V 4 months ago
It's been a while since my school days, but if I remember well, glaciers actually melt. New ice forms on top while the lower layer melts, which is why it appears not to melt. Of course it wouldn't matter in this case,dumb is dumb.
Janissary35680 4 months ago
You are correct. The bottom layer melts due to the pressure caused by the weight of the ice above.
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April Pickett 4 months ago
Somehow, we're going to have to go back to the past and teach people how to think. Thinking just isn't done, or not well, these days.
Thanos'Fingers 4 months ago
Who's gonna build the time machine if nobody can think? Idiocracy was a documentary.
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#3
I was a whitewater rafting guide and we had a trip of about 5 boats. One of the clients only brought nice high heel type shoes (not very high but those type of lady nice shoes, not sure what to call them). We require shoes on the trip so thats what she wore. About an hour into the trip it was like 100 degrees so the guests start a water fight with their paddles and all of a sudden I hear this lady screaming "Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! I didn't come here to get wet!!". On a whitewater rafting trip....
Another guide later told me a little girl in his boat said, "that's my mom, she is always like this".
Kali Chaos 4 months ago
I have an astonishingly similar story with twins named Leelee and Lala, who brought a Sephora foot scrub to go rafting on camping trip. This was level four rapids, and neither of them knew how to swim. That was memorable.
Bob Jones 4 months ago (edited)
When we went whitewater rafting on the Zambezi river the guidea told us about a group of Japanese tourists he had just had. They rocked up very smartly dressed and some of the women even had heels. They barely spoke English (this is before the internet and translation apps) and he concluded they thought they had booked a river cruise. They however insisted on going so he took them. Of course they ended up soaking wet and some even spent time in the water but apparently they absolutely loved it!
OneHappyPuppy 4 months ago
Stilettos on a whitewater rafting trip? Didn't want to get wet? She was obviously clueless as to what whitewater rafting is... Probably though it would be a winery tour
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
Stilettos lol ,I’d have pushed her in pfft ,poor child having a monster like her for a mother 🥹
#4
My cousin is a tourist guide and biologist, most of his tours are in Africa. He instructed his group of 20-25 people including kids not to wear any type of earrings or collars especially shiny stuff since they were about to go into a thick forest to try to see a bunch of animals. This is very important because 20-25 make a lot of noise which makes wild animals run away or hide, it's even worse if they're wearing shiny stuff they can spot from far away. Ok so this woman complains, decides to wear shiny earrings anyway, cousin tells her to get rid of them or she ain't coming with the group so she obeys but puts them on a bit later.
Some species of monkeys in that area LOVE shiny stuff. They ripped the earrings from her ears.
Fellfromthemoon 4 months ago
I hope the monkeys didn't suffer any harm from those small, spiky metal objects.
Happy Onion 4 months ago
It's almost like these rules/advice have a reason behind them. Weird. /s
Philly Bob 3 months ago
"Please do not swallow lit fireworks in the store." "Do not insert plunger handles in a**s until after purchase." Makes ya wonder huh? What's next? A sticker on electric outlets that say "Do not insert tongue!" LOL!
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Once had a woman show up for a hike over some challenging terrain in high-heels, and was upset when we said she had to change or not come along. These people are out there.
Philly Bob 3 months ago
They tend to steal stuff to then come back and barter with taken objects for food.
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Spittnimage 4 months ago
...and the dumb lady learned she should've listened to the tour guide. The End 😜
Younger generations are at the forefront of this revival. Two in five of Millennial (42%) and Gen Z (40%) leisure travelers booked a guided tour during that year, far outpacing Gen X and Boomers.
Overall, more than two-thirds (69%) of leisure travelers are looking at guided tours for a deep dive into the history of a city or landmark, which makes it the biggest reason for choosing this service.
Other big factors that make people book guides include the chance to explore local cuisine (40%) and the opportunity to meet locals (28%). When it comes to visiting a new city, a third of travelers are into walking (34%) or bus or boat (27%) tours, and guided tours of a famous landmark (31%) or a museum (22%) are also on their must-do list.
So there's a good chance we'll be seeing more of these stories in the near future as well.
#5
Couple of guys I used to play cricket with went on a school trip to Auschwitz and decided to steal a small pair of glasses and some buttons they found half buried in the ground.
They were detained by Polish police while they were leaving the site.
Hard to know what goes through people’s heads sometimes.
Toothless Feline 4 months ago
The wind. It blows in one ear and out the other.
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Premislaus de Colo 4 months ago
This is so insensitive and morally wrong... Why would anyone want a souvenir coming from a victim of such atrocious crime...
#6
I wasn't the tour guide but I was on a tour of Namibia and had a Zimbabwean guide who was telling us his craziest stories. He had a couple that was married who were on their honeymoon who were on one of his trips. One night, everyone is sitting around the fire and chatting (just as we were) and this couple gets up to go to the bathroom. This is a campsite so they walk off into the darkness towards the toilets. A few minutes later the guy runs back alone, crying and panicking. Everyone asks him what happened. "I think my wife was k**led by a lion."
Gasp, shock. Everyone is freaked out, asking him what happened, and as he's trying to explain, the now-irate wife walks up to the campsite and starts yelling. So what had happened? Well, they'd walked off, and at some point near the toilets, they both heard a kind of snuffling noise in the underbrush, clearly an animal rooting around. The husband completely freaks out, pushes his wife towards the noise and *down to the ground*, screams, and runs away. Spoiler alert, it was not a lion and the wife was not pleased at the attempts at being sacrificed. The guide told us that they didn't speak the entire rest of the trip and they he believes they got divorced. Hilarious.
TL;DR; don't shove your wife into the ground if you think there is a hungry lion in the underbrush just to save yourself.
Rika 4 months ago
TBH I did the same once when I came face to face with my only one phobia. I instinctively pushed my partner towards the thing and took off running in the opposite direction. It's not so easy to think clearly when you're terrified. (My partner was fine, just confused because phobias are irrational and there was never any actual danger.)
T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago
In South Africa it's traditional for Black men to walk in the door first, due to the fact that there might be a lion on the other side. (Not that there is; it's a holdover from centuries ago.) So if a guy goes in the door before me, I'm just thankful he's going to take on the lion!
Ozymandias73 4 months ago
Wowwwwwwwww! Not a chivalrous bone in his body. That's f'd up whether wife or not. Hopefully at least karma bit him in the a$$.
Other big factors that make people book guides include the chance to explore local cuisine (40%) and the opportunity to meet locals (28%). When it comes to visiting a new city, a third of travelers are into walking (34%) or bus or boat (27%) tours, and guided tours of a famous landmark (31%) or a museum (22%) are also on their must-do list.
So there's a good chance we'll be seeing more of these stories in the near future as well.
#7
Saw a kid knock over a set of replica civil war rifles that were on display, and then his mom got mad at the tour guide for yelling at him. The kid and his mom were kicked off the civil war tour.
Abel 4 months ago
Problem is a guide, bartender or anyone working in services cant touch or educate a a minor. It can be very frustrating.
Laserleader 4 months ago
As a 13 year guide, and 2 years as a preschool aide, YES you can discipline and educate a minor, just have to do it by distracting them and refocusing on the task. No need to touch, unless they are in danger, and then you better move fast or they can sue you.
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#8
On an open topped tour bus in London - woman tries to dangle her toddler over the railing, then starts saying she's going to complain to my manager when I told her to stop. Caught her doing it again and company policy said that anyone endangering their kids like that was to be removed from the tour, so the driver had to come up and march her off. She still insisted she did nothing wrong. Like, she literally had the kid's feet on the side rail of the (moving) bus and was just holding him loosely round the waist. One low hanging tree branch, of which there were many on the route, and that kid was gone.
SheamusFanFrom1987 4 months ago
Dangle the ding-dum over the railing while the bus is traversing some of these low-hanging tree branch areas and see how she likes it...
Big Chungus 4 months ago
OMG like how could a parent think that's ok? I won't even let my toddler near the door of an inclosed balcony I am so scared lol
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 4 months ago
Can't undersatnd why people take kids under about 8 or 9 on tours like that, or on overseas holidays etc. They are not going to remember it, and you're just pi**ing off everyone around you when your c****h dropping starts acting like a feral.
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
I remember that being on the news ,f*****g stupid s k.a n k ,it was liked to Michael Jackson ,you know when he held his baby over a balcony , ,the woman did get looked at by social services ,vile mother ,
#9
Not a tour guide, but a park ranger in Banff told me a story about a couple of European tourists who asked him where they could see some bears. The ranger mentions a few spots where bears are known to be and cautions them to be careful. The next year he saw the same couple and they thanked him and showed him some pictures they had taken. In one of them there was a picture of the wife holding a black bear cub and smiling. The ranger kinda lost it on them.
WalterWhiteSavannah 4 months ago
I'm my younger years i was dumb enough to pat a big old buck on the head while drunk. I was never that dumb or drunk though. Still probly lucky that deer didn't stomp me to death.
Lotekguy 4 months ago
How did you get the buck drunk enough to tolerate your actions?
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I honestly can't believe people. I have an irrational fear of bears (I am in Australia; there are no d**n bears here except drop bears, which are marsupials) and wouldn't get within the same postcode as one. And yet people PICK UP AND HANDLE wild bear cubs?! With Mum certainly close by?!
Tom Brincefield 4 months ago
A fear of bears is not irrational. Even drop bears can be dangerous at the wrong time of year.
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Laserleader 4 months ago
Isn't that photo evidence of tampering with wildlife and admissible in court?
#10
Former whitewater rafting guide. There's a calmer section of the river people can, if they choose to, hop out and swim through. They are wearing life jackets so you can just float through it.
This woman decides she wants to try it and hops out. After she pops up she slowly tilts forward until just the back of her jacket is out of the water and she's completely still. After 5 or so seconds of this I start to realize this might not be intentional and paddle over and physically pick her head up above the water followed by her gasping for air. I haul her in the boat and ask what happened.
She said she didn't know what to do as she'd "never been submerged in water before". 1) why are you on a whitewater rafting trip? 2) why didn't your strategy involve moving your body?
Rika 4 months ago
Was she drunk or did she have mental issues ? Not knowing how to swim is a thing, but your instinct is supposed to kick in and make you try to stay afloat by any means.
nm 4 months ago
Some, ignorant of too much water (lake or sea) may mistake what is up or down.
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Rose the Cook 4 months ago
So many accidents on Tasmania's Franklin River at one stage when people who couldn't swim went rafting because it was the trendy thing to do.
Börje Strömming 4 months ago
People in a “developed” country not knowing how to swim is such a bizarre concept for me. Here its mandatory to learn to swim in gym class, 200 meter regular swimming and 50 on your back or you don’t pass.
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I’ve seen small children (3-4 years) behave similarly in that they lose their footing in water and it isn’t the instant instinct to place their feet down and push their heads up. I can’t properly explain it, but don’t seem to automatically know that above all else they need to get their heads up. So I guess that’s what happened to this woman.
April Pickett 4 months ago
Some people don't function well outside of their own environment. If you'd been in her environment and something like that happened to you, she would've done the same thing that you did, fussing and muttering about survival instincts.
Svenne O'Lotta 4 months ago
You generally don't die from spilling your pumpkin spice latte
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We're pretty good at stopping tourist from doing too much damage. After being in the industry for a while you get a spidey sense for when people are going to do dumb things and can often steer them away from doing anything too bad. That being said, here's one of my favourite stories to tell.
I was 7 months pregnant and it was the week before I went on maternity leave. I was driving out to one of our sites and to get there I had to drive (on the road of course) through our penguin colony. This particular species of penguin burrows underground and stays hidden in their burrow during the day, and comes out at night when birds of prey and other potential predators have gone to sleep. As I'm driving out to the site I realise the parking lot up ahead is full and people have started parking up and down the road. And that's when I see a giant SUV pull off the road, drive between the bollards and into the penguin colony. I pull over as what seems like 20 non-English speaking tourists start to pile out of the vehicle and take selfies with the ocean backdrop. Staying as calm as possible and using sign language I point out the no entry signs of the bollards they drove past, the burrows they have just collapsed, inform them they may have killed penguins, and to get their f*****g vehicle out of the f*****g colony.
Once I got them out of there I started digging out the collapsed burrows to check for penguins. The first four were luckily empty but the last one had a breeding pair. I get the girl out, check her over for injuries, and having no where else to put her I follow protocol and tuck her under my left arm against my side. I get the boy out and put him in the same position on the right side and start to check him over. Remember how I said I was pregnant? Well normally, you hold a penguin down low almost on your hip, but because of my round tummy I was holding him more at the bottom of my ribcage. So when I turned my head to start my health check, the b*****d reached up and grabbed my top lip with his beak and ripped straight through the middle.
It was about this time that the tourists walking along the road realised this ranger was holding onto two penguins. I had five or six tourists sprint through the colony towards me and start snapping pictures. While at the same time potentially collapsing more burrows. If any internet sleuths stumble across a picture of a heavily pregnant, pissed off looking ranger, holding two penguins with blood pouring down her face let me know. I've been waiting for that picture to show up for 3 years and haven't found it yet.
Happy ending, I chased away the photographers, popped the two uninjured penguins in a nearby unoccupied burrow, and radioed for back up to help with the parking situation. My lip healed without a scar, and both penguins left the following morning for a well deserved day in the ocean.
TL;DR Signage is there for a reason. Rules are there for a reason. If you don't know what the reason is, doesn't mean you should break the rules.
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Real TL;DR Tourists drove over penguin burrows. No penguins were harmed in the making of this story. Just.
Glad people seem to appreciate the work we do with these super cute (vicious, and smelly) animals. They're worth every ounce of blood, sweat and tears!
#12
I was working on a tourist island in Australia when this man pulled out almost all the back feathers of a peacock because he wanted to keep one. He sneaked up behind it, and grabbed a huge handful and yanked them all out. He was immediately escorted off the island. The peacock had a huge bare patch and most of its beautiful feathers were gone :(.
Stephanie Did It 4 months ago (edited)
Should have been arrested for attack and mistreatment of an animal!
Jessica Cooney 4 months ago
Absolutely evil. Someone should have grabbed a huge wad of his hair and yanked it out to show how it feels.
GalPalAl 4 months ago
It sounds like it would have been painful for the peacock. Someone should have grabbed a handful of his hair and pulled it out of his head as payback. I would have kicked him in the balls
Tabitha 4 months ago
I have lived near a park where there were free-roaming peacocks. They were also protected birds, so if you so much as bothered on of them, your a*s would be grass and the county would be the lawn mower. But I digress. Peacocks, especially if there are a lot of them will shed a s**t ton of feathers all over the place. All you have to do, if you really have to have one, is just look around the park. I guarantee you’ll find one. But ask the ranger before taking it home, because it’s illegal to take even discarded feathers from an area with protected birds. The parks don’t want people coming to the park just to take feathers, as someone will get greedy and someone else will get a*****e toward the birds, just like the sorry sack of s h I t in this entry.
April Pickett 4 months ago
He was immediately escorted off the island, and I hope to jail, and a huge fine from the judge. He also should have had his visa revoked and have been banned from the whole country. Then, this story should have been the top news story of the week, with legislation following. You know those politicians, they would have jumped on this with both feet.
#13
When I was in Paris I witnessed two older American women aggressively trying to force a store clerk to accept US dollar bills. She was like, "Just go to the kiosk down the street, they will change these bills for you and I'll be happy to sell you what you want." They were like, "This is GOOD AMERICAN MONEY."
Billo66 4 months ago
Yes there are several, and we are embarrassed by them. Don't paint everyone with the same brush please :)
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Gia SDP 4 months ago
As an American, I have to say many of my fellow countrypeople are IDIOTS.
AlithenewMC 4 months ago
This happened to me a lot when I worked at the Toronto Eaton Center. Including one guy who yelled "get with it, Canada!" at me. Also had a lot of Albertans yell at me about how they should get to pay their tax rate (I think it was 5%) instead of ours (13%). Shop back at home, then? It's not like you don't have the same chain stores...
Tabitha 4 months ago
Listen. We’re all human, regardless of where we come from, OK? TBH, in my 64 years on Earth I have observed that there are actually only two kinds of people in the world; nice people and a******s—-and both kinds of people are found in every single corner of the globe. (Also, once in a while nice people can be a******s, and a******s can be nice, so even that’s got a gray area. Lastly, you are not allowed to choose which you are, as that’s for other people to decide about you.)
Apachebathmat 4 months ago
I have been lucky to travel quite a bit over my many years (from UK) apart from one very obnoxious and rude American man in Egypt, every other American I’ve encountered has been nothing short of lovely, kind and very, very friendly, I thing every nation has a few residents that could do with putting through a wood chipper, let not paint a whole nation with the same tarry brush!
L.V 4 months ago
That's why French people don't speak English right away. If you are smart enough to learn a few words in French, you're probably smart enough to behave 😄
Nikki Sevven 4 months ago
You also need to learn some cultural behavior, e.g., greeting the shopkeeper.
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I did tours in the Canadian north as a pilot. Usually it's a C206-C207 but if you only have 2 customers I'd take the C172 (Cessna)
I took a couple on a 45min sight seeing aerial tour to end up at the next reservation to go on a 3hour walking tour
Something about them seemed a little off but I just chalked it up to nervous flyers
We landed in rather gusty conditions that kept trying to push us off the runway so I'm already annoyed
I let them exit out the passenger door and then go to retrieve their bags
I open the small cubby door at the rear to retrieve their backpacks. As I lift the first backpack the tail of the aircraft slams violently into the dirt. Not knowing what the hell happened I look up over the tail to see the woman I just flew here sitting on the tail of my air craft
Apparently she thought she could get a nice selfie sitting on the tail of my airplane
I proceeded to call her every name in the book and threw their stuff off to the side
Thankfully the tail wasn't visibly damaged but I had to fly it back wondering if I was correct
It held
F*****g tourists.
Alex Boyd 4 months ago
...I have to admit, it might not occur to me that it was even physically possible for me to singlehandedly tip over the airplane I'd just been riding in. Or single butted-ly, as the case may be. It probably also wouldn't occur to me to sit on the outside of the plane for a picture, either, but tipping over the entire aircraft is not why I wouldn't do it.
#15
Not a tour guide per se (Park Interpreter), but once had a lady with a thick New York accent try and pet a black bear.
Janissary35680 4 months ago
An 80s issue of National Lampoon magazine's "True Facts" page had an entry about some Yellowstone tourists who wanted to pour honey on their kid's hands so they could get "a picture of a bear licking it off." I don't think they got that far but a ranger later said something like "Everything these people know about wildlife they seem to have learned from Hannah-Barbera".
Claire Holman 4 months ago
Chinese tourist leaving a safari vehicle to take a selfie with an African bull elephant ranks along the same level of stupidity.
Laserleader 4 months ago
We have wild black bears bears fishing for salmon on the other side of bushes, and some people get too comfortable, so when the bears come walking down the road, ive had to physically pull idiots away who turn back to walk AT THE BEAR.
April Pickett 4 months ago
See those two little shiny eyes? Their brain is in the middle and is smaller than one of those eyes. They are instinctual animals and will do what they have to, to survive. I don't understand her wanting to get close and pet the bear; they stink, and besides that they smell really awful.
#16
I’m a bush pilot in Alaska and occasionally do glacier air tours of my boss asks (I’m not a fan of doing tours)
One day I’m doing a glacier tour and had probably 7 people onboard and the dude sitting next to just looks at me and says “I’m de captain now” and yanks the plane 30 degrees to the right and then lets go and laughs saying he was just kidding.
There was yelling to follow via my mouth.
Stephanie Did It 4 months ago
If you wouldn't do that in a car then why the H would you do it in an aircraft?!
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
I’d have radioed for police to be waiting on the ground , cos that could have easily bought a plane that size down , freaking idiots like him need locking up for everyone else’s safety 🤬
Intangible Panda 4 months ago
I'm amazed how these people survived with their lack of common sense and dreadful sense of humor
April Pickett 4 months ago
I'm a pretty firm believer in 'actions have consequences'. When you got back to base, you and the other 6 people should have beat the sh**t out of him.
Philly Bob 3 months ago
I'd have opened the door and did a beautiful right pitch. Halfway on his downward journey I'd yell "Just kidding!!" ::splat::
#17
Not me, my best friend's tour guide on an island off the Australian coast- he saw one of the tour ignore the huge signs warning people not to go to the edge of the water.
Predictably the tourist gets hit by a huge wave, swept out to sea.
I know it was the worst thing the tour guide ever saw because he and my best friend both went into the sea to rescue the tourist.
And they both died.
Funniest guy I ever met. Miss him most days.
The tourist who caused it all? Predictably he survived. Pretty sure he doesn't feel too good about the whole thing.
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
💔💔I hope to hell those stupid tourists were very humbled knowing two amazing people died trying to save losers , that thought they knew better ,
Maren Villadsen 4 months ago
If you are not a lifeguard, DON'T jump in to save someone. Call for help! We see this happen every year by the danish coast.
#18
I used to do vineyard and garden tours for a pretty well known winery. I had a lady ask to see any merlot vines we had so I walked her over and she proceeded to dump ash all over them and yell "We love you Nana! Rest in peace!" Needless to say you are not allowed to dump human remains on food goods.
Stephanie Did It 4 months ago
Ah, the full rounded flavor of Ben-Gay with notes of oak and talcum powder...
Blackmoon The Dragon 4 months ago
if thats a dying wish, that's a pretty dang weird dying wish!
#19
Was on a tour at Dachau Concentration Camp and I needed a moment to myself so I took a quiet walk through the unmarked graves (they’ve made a walking path with trees and flowers). As I’m starting to get myself under control I turn a corner on the path and stumble across two a**hats taking a piss - apparently they thought it was a great place instead of waiting until we got back to the main building.
#20
I had a guest, snorkeling try and grab the tail of a barracuda as he swam up behind it. Luckily I was able to hit the guest with a dive fin from the boat to stop him before he got ahold. If he had grabbed on, I’m sure he would have been ripped to pieces by that fish.
April Pickett 4 months ago
Yeah, but it's time consuming filling out all that paperwork.
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Uncle Panda 4 months ago
I had just enough time to think, "Hey, that rock looks like a face!" before a barracuda taught me that I can swim backwards a lot faster than I would have guessed.
#21
Not a tour guide but i was on a tour around Auschwitz once where two youngish (18-20 year old) Italians were taking selfies.
A second thing that happened on that tour that wasn't particularly bad but was humbling was that there was an older English lady, who used a portable mobility scooter when the walking was too much, complained that some of the buildings didn't have access for it. The tour guide pointed out that that was because people who couldn't get up steps would have been gassed on arrival.
Happy Onion 4 months ago
Nice implication of where the scooter lady would have ended up back then. Wonder if she got the message
Apatheist Account2 4 months ago
I understand taking photos - but not with smiling and laughing faces or thumbs up. It is as serious as it gets.
Jay Cee 4 months ago (edited)
It's the "influencers" who pose semi-clad on the railway lines that lead up to the Ramp that I despise the most. Seriously people? Oh and there was the one who climbed on top of one of the stones in the Berlin Shoah Memorial for a "thoughtful" pose . . .
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Used to be a tourguide at a primate sanctuary with a strict 'no touching policy'. At the end of the tour there's a suspension bridge, tourists go first, guide goes last as per the rules. I always warn the tourists that the other side is the territory of a Hanuman langur and he doesn't f**k around, keep your distance etc. He doesn't attack people out of nowhere, but he likes showing his teeth and screaming, which scares tourists.
Anyway, one tour I get to the other side of the bridge, and a tourist got bitten. He says a monkey just bit him out of nowhere. Asked the other tourists, no he tried to f*****g pet the Hanuman. D*****s got what he deserved.
Apachebathmat 4 months ago
Went on a silent orangutan tour… emphasis on the SILENT so as not to make them feel threatened, one tourist (not American before you all pounce) tried to pspspspspsps one from down a tree with a sandwich which was swiftly slapped out of their hand by the guide… happy memories
#23
Guy peed on the side of an Omaha Beach bunker. Not out of spite or something, he just didn't want to walk back to the portapotty, started peeing on a piece of history. Obviously not the worst thing that'll be in this thread, but certainly made the rest of our group turn to him and ask what in the absolute f**k he was doing.
Annik Perrot 4 months ago
Lots of bunkers all along the atlantic coast in France, and pee is the least that happens to them. Inside you can find shît and toilet paper, syringes, etc. People are disgusting. Many of those bunkers are now in danger of falling down, with the sea eating up the coastline. Warning signs about the danger are posted, but still people enter them. Well, Darwin Awards...
Jenae Castanon 4 months ago
Just because you *can* whip it out anywhere to pee doesn't mean you *should*
#24
Tour guide/boat captain in the Caribbean.
We had about 40/50 people on the boat, got off. We would normally go feed swimming pigs which someone would get nipped from them from doing stupid s**t but nothing too serious. Well the next stop after that was another island where we would hand feed turtle, sharks, and stingrays. So we would tell the people to hold it with the the palm open and food in the middle for the stingrays and they would come over the top and take it out. The turtles and the sharks put it in the water holding it in the tips and when they are coming for it let go. Well of course, this dingus decided he would be tough and feed this baby shark, no longer than your forearm without letting go. Shark proceeds to bite his fingers, he screams and jumps up out of the water and flicks it off of his hand, pulling one of his finger nails off in the process.
So that's one I always remember.
I'm probably a t-rex 3 months ago
That's actually sounds like a really fun tour! Minus the moron of course
#25
I work at a brewery tap room and take people on brewery tours. During fermentation CO2 is produced and excess comes out through a run off pipe and into a water bucket. One of the attendees (who was being a pain and trying to be funny but nobody was laughing) asked me what the pipe was for, so I gladly explained. He then asked what would happen if he breathed it in... in disbelief of his stupidity I told him he would pass out/damage his brain, he then proceeded to grab the pipe and take a breath. He was then ejected and barred. Some people are just beyond belief.
Bored Seagull 4 months ago
We do, but only in minuscle amounts. CO2 accounts for approximately 0,04% of the total air volume. In such a low concentration, CO2 is indeed harmless. In higher concentrations though, CO2 has toxic effects, mainly by diminishing the blood's ability to carry oxygen. Starting with a CO2 concentration of about 8%, this ability may be diminished enough to prevent the organs from getting enough oxygen. Now, if you take a deep huff from a pipe intended to remove CO2 from a fermentation tank, it is not out of the question that the CO2 concentration of this huff is *way* higher than 8%.
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Was at a reptile show and they let out some mini crocodile iguana type thing. I think it was called a dragon something? Anyway some kid decides to take his shoe off and wiggle his toes through the small rope gate we were against. Presenter says “watch your kid, these will bite”. Kid removes his foot and immediately puts it back in when presented turns around, wiggles his toes again, and this dragon thing *surges* forward and clamps down. Kid starts screaming, presenter just looks on like “well I told you so” and removes it. Kid stops screaming, no-one says anything, and presenter moves on.
That’s what you get for ignoring instructions, and also for not parenting properly.
**EDIT: okay guys I really doubt it was a Komodo dragon since the presenter really wasn’t worried about it, please stop commenting saying the kid is dead or something. As others have pointed out it was probably a monitor, a Chinese water dragon, or a bearded dragon. It was big enough so a monitor sounds correct. I don’t need anyone else commenting about whether it was a Komodo dragon and whether the kid got help or not. His sock almost came off and he got a fright, that’s all, kid was fine**.
Jay Scales 4 months ago
Is it only me who was hoping the kid was NOT fine? Stupid kid, stupid parents.
#27
Not a tour guide, but I was on a tour of the Everglades and our group (including guide) witnessed a French woman sit on a 16-foot alligator thinking it was a statue. Thank god nothing happened to her but everyone realized she was doing it as it’s head started moving and it was absolute chaos. The tour guide ended up kicking them off the tour for not staying on the path.
Laserleader 4 months ago
At a zoo, and a lady was complaining about the "fake" Alligator sitting in the enclosure. Absolutely serious. I realized she didn't know and told her to look at the eye blink.
I'm probably a t-rex 3 months ago
That's actually kind of funny. "I'll just sit down on this here alligator bench..."
#28
When I was in Yellowstone National Park, a tourist (or touron def:a mix between a tourist and a moron) was trying to take a picture with some buffalo. He had his child, probably three years old with him, and he was walking towards the buffalo. His wife was holding the camera, ready to take the picture. I knew that he was trying to put his kid onto the buffalo or pose with it or something else immensely idiotic. Fortunately, a park ranger stopped him before anything serious happened. Apparently this is fairly common in Yellowstone and most people are maimed or k**led.
Wild animals are wild, stay away.
Charlie the Cat 4 months ago
That is a water buffalo from Africa. Not the sort of buffalo found in Yellowstone.
Janissary35680 4 months ago (edited)
🎵🎶"Oh give me a veldt where the buffalo..." [searching ⏳] "... swelt..."🎶🎵
Load More Replies... Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
Yup , however the same result if the idiot had got any closer lol
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v10011011 4 months ago
To all of you saying it is a different buffalo than they have in Yellowstone: there are no buffalo in Yellowstone or anywhere in the wild in the US. We have bison, completely different animal; their scientific name is literally Bison Bison
Tom Brincefield 4 months ago
Read a hook by a NPS ranger, telling stories about his career. While he was working in Yellowstone, an Japanese couple came up to him very upset, but they had poor English, so he went with them. To find their young child sitting on the back of a bison as it walked through the field. They couldn't reach the kid, so he decided to try getting the bison to speed up, so the kid would fall off in the tall grass. It worked, and the kid wasn't hurt. He just had a fun time riding the bison.
#29
I work in a castle with some incredible old and delicate books and furniture. This b***h of a tourist let her bratty kids run everywhere and grab/pull at everything. I had to get a child out from under one of the beds and she just didn’t give a s**t.
Stephanie Did It 4 months ago
I wish places like this would display (and enforce) a rule that all children under a certain age must be holding the hand of a parent or adult through the entire tour.
Mabelbabel 4 months ago
I wish places would have a zero tolerance policy for parents of badly behaved children. If you haven't taught your child how to behave appropriately and to follow instructions like "do not touch" then you need to be removed. I've had too many days out ruined by entitled parents who think the rules don't apply to them or their precious offspring. It ruins the day for everyone.
Load More Replies... Willow-60 4 months ago
They should make children and parents wear those wrist bands that attach to each other,( like baby reins) if the child does anything stupid or breaks anything then the parents are to blame,
Laserleader 4 months ago
Parents alread are to blame, but they don't want to pay for damages
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I work at the National Cathedral, and a tourist took a small votive candle, and lit their friend's hat on fire. It didn't spread or set off any alarms, but it got through most of his hat and almost caught his hair on fire. He was also really overreacting, and he threw his burned hat *into the organ.* The Cathedral suffered from earthquake damage in 2011, and we borrowed one of their ladders to get it down.
Nikki Sevven 4 months ago
Washington National is a lovely cathedral. My dad's from DC, so we spent a lot of time there over the years. One memorable moment that reduced me to tears: as we entered the nave, sunlight was shining colors onto the columns. Already beautiful, right? Then someone in the loft began playing the French horn. I lost it, overwhelmed by the beauty of the moment.
April Pickett 4 months ago
I don't care if it was a impetuous action and/or reaction. They would be escorted out, arrested for defiling a national treasure, jailed, major fine, and I can't even think of what else, but there should have been more done to them.
#31
During my summers in college, I worked as a raft guide on a whitewater river in the southeast. It wasn’t a difficult job; the two biggest things we were responsible for were running our trips in a timely manner and ensuring that the guests in our boat had a fun and SAFE trip down the river.
The safety part is important, because people visiting the river frequently forget that it is a natural wilderness feature and carries all of the associated dangers. We frequently received questions about whether the rafts were on tracks, whether I actually had to do anything in the back, and (my personal favorite) whether the river went in a circle and we would end up back where we started. This last question was particularly funny because we TOOK A BUS from the rafting outpost to the put-in of the river — why bother if we were going in a circle?!
One summer afternoon, I had a boat with three groups of two people; one of those groups was a mother and son. The mother seemed nice, if timid, as did the son. However, as I was going through the routine of explaining the safety concerns and paddle commands, it started to dawn on me that he was not very bright. There was nothing wrong with him — he was just dumb as s**t.
Once we were on the river, he almost immediately developed a habit of checking the depth of the water with his paddle. He would incessantly plunge the blade into the water without care nor concern for his surroundings and circumstances. The water on this river is pristine. Almost crystal clear. The riverbed is visible almost constantly, and still, this young man felt the need to verify the veracity of his own eyeballs by shoving his paddle into the river like some sort of deranged perpetual motion machine.
Of course, I warned him against his actions. At first, my concerns were that his depth-checking interferes with his ability to follow my commands and paddle. Eventually, however, my pleading grew more desperate as it dawned on me that this child paid no deference to my authority. He answered only to chaos.
It finally came to a head when, in a portion of the river that was extremely shallow (probably no more than a foot deep), he plunged his paddle into the riverbed with a force that shook the surrounding countryside. Like Excalibur, the paddle wedged itself among the rocks, perfectly erect. The boy, with a staid iron grip that could only be wielded by someone incredibly dense, kept his hand on the paddle as the rushing water carried us away from its new location. In one swift motion, he was wrenched from the raft and landed in a foot of water. He wore a face of bewildered idiocy.
It was quite satisfying to keep his paddle in the back with me for the remainder of the trip after I returned him safely to the raft. All he could do was stare wistfully at the riverbed, his p*o brain longing to verify its depth.
FoxThatHasFennecaphobia 4 months ago
BP thinks that the informal word for excrement is horrible and will poison your eyes if you see it
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#32
Was on a tour in New Orleans. Guy gets drunk and basically makes a fool of himself and slaps his partner. Everyone else on the tour is like ‘whoa not cool, take a hike’. Gf leaves with him. Next morning we’re all on the bus waiting to roll out to the next destination and we’re not moving. 30 minutes later we’re all getting pissed off, then the couple get on the bus looking sheepish.
By the next stop we learn, the drunk guy ran a bath at the hotel, passed out and it flooded the bathroom, and four floors below into the hotel lobby. The hotel wouldn’t let them leave without paying thousands of dollars.
Karma for him.
Otto Katz 4 months ago
How would it flood the bathroom? Tubs have overflow holes in them to prevent this.
KatWitch57 4 months ago
A typical bath overflow does not release as much water as you'd hope.
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I watched a man run up the side of the platform the Winged Victory statue is on in the Louvre and throw his arm around it for a photo. Security got him down pretty quickly, I'm shocked he actually made it up there.
#34
Saw a kid chip off a piece of an expensive sculpture, he was playing within the restricted area and his parents didn't bother.
#35
Technically not a tourist guide but I was doing a tour of our production facility to some people from head office. As we got to one of the pallet out-feeds, I mentioned the light curtain which was a safety feature that stopped the conveyors once the light was broken, and so for some d**n reason one of the ladies decides to stick her hand through the light to test it, stopping the production line and also risking her safety by doing it in the first place.
I asked her not to do that again and went about resetting the machine to start up again. No more than 3 seconds after doing so she stuck her hand through the curtain again stopping everything. She looked at me with the most stupid expression on her face as I basically said "what the f**k". To this day I don't know why she did it or what her deal was.
#36
Not a tour guide but was on a tour in South Africa last year and a girl yells to stop the bus and proceeds to step out of the middle door to go take pictures of a pair of wild Ostriches and a chick. Tour guide screams for her to get the hell back on the bus because apparently they will rip you to shreds with their razor sharp claws, especially a mother protecting her chick. I would have preferred nature take its course.
We will never tour with other Americans again, while obviously this is a generalization, too many treat the rest of the world like a theme park or zoo. While we were at a wine tasting half the group proceeded to make click sounds as the local staff served us (for those who don’t know there are consonantal chicks in the Xhosa language). Several people also berated the tour guide because he used the world colored and blacks but he put them in their places immediately as the bus driver was colored and other staff were black and jumped in to say that’s exactly what they called themselves and to stop projecting American identity politics onto their country. There were a ton of other similar stories such as a someone from our group telling another tour guide and tour group to speak English (it was a separate Dutch group), but it was frankly just embarrassing.
Rosecrucian Roeth 4 months ago
It is impossible to embarrass Muricans, they do too good of a job of it themselves!
Laserleader 4 months ago
Oddly its the Indian Brahman I cant stand... they travel in groups and treat everyone like a servant. Ive had to break business deals with some due to their stupidity in entitlement, and on tour they were impossible to please, even worse than the Japanese. Koreans were great though.
T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago
I've been told I'm being offensive when talking about Coloured people (note the spelling) on the Internet. Honey, I live in South Africa where Coloured is an *ethnic group*. At least read up on the country you're going to visit FFS.
B.M. 4 months ago
Entitlement ist real. We were five people who together had booked a Safari tour: car and driver/guide just for us. Git a car with 12 seats for the guests. Another car came for 12 American tourists who hat booked "1 seat in a Safari car". The americans decided that at least three out of their car should transfer to us, "to make it even". I can understand the wish, however: you get what you paid for ad WE wanted a car to ourselves! In the end our driver told them that he was not our guide and would just drive us to our "real" guide who unfortunatedly did not speak english, but our language. Weird
I'm probably a t-rex 3 months ago
I feel like the roch and privileged Americans, who can actually AFFORD to go on these amazing sounding tours are the worst ones. I would never act like some of these bozos.. I'd juat be happy to be there
#37
I used to work at a heritage site. It was an old military installation with a lot of remaining original structures (bunk beds, cafeteria equipment, computers etc.).
Everyday it was a constant effort to remind people (read: kids) NOT to jump on the beds, not to slam doors open, not to punch every button like it owes them money.
The absolute worst was a group of kids on a school trip. Within the first ten minutes we're walking through the tech portion of the exhibit, where we had a wall lined with Burroughs large systems machines (B5000's), all behind this little fence about waist-high. I turn to demonstrate some of the pieces, and when I look back at the group one of them had jumped over the barrier, opened one of the units and started pulling out handfuls of digital tape from the reels inside.
I just about jumped on the kid when their teacher did just that. She jumped the barrier, smacked the kids hands and took him outside. I immediately ended the tour and had them all refunded, as I couldn't imagine what else could happen.
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
Blame the parents ,for not teaching their brats manners and respect , eugh
GalPalAl 4 months ago
The parents don't teach respect because they don't have any themselves
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I was on a tour at Pompeii and the tour guide nearly had an aneurysm when some American parents let their children start picking rocks out of one of the historic houses. He was Italian and was screaming “these houses survived a volcano blast but they are going to be done in by your children while you do nothing!!” The parents were still did nothing and the children were climbing and destroying things the entire tour.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 4 months ago
They should be on leashes at all times in public.
Load More Replies... April Pickett 4 months ago
I'm sorry for your children. What you just said is the most crass, uncaring thing you could have said. It's a pity that Child Services can't interfere because you adequately house, feed, and clothe them. Emotionally crippled children have a hard life.
Load More Replies... Dee Rutherford 4 months ago
Disgusting! You should be able to stop the tour right then and make everyone get back on the bus.
#39
Not a tour guide but I was recently on a tour of Dachau concentration camp and this family in our group (two girls in their twenties and their parents) started taking selfies in front of the crematorium ovens. It was literally the most emotional part of the tour. The guide was reading witness accounts. And we look up to these two girls having an Instagram photo shoot with an oven in the background. When our tour guide told them they were being inappropriate and tried to make them delete the pictures, their mom got in his face and started telling him that he had no right to make them delete the photos.
Toothless Feline 4 months ago
“Anything for the ‘gram.” Wannabe influencers (and ALL “influencers” are wannabes).
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I'm not a tour guide, but I once seen an American tourist sit down on a 15th century armchair at the Palace of Versailles in Paris. I was around 8 years old at the time but I still knew it was wrong! The tour guide freaked out when she saw her.
Mabelbabel 4 months ago
Why is there no zero tolerance policy for any of these halfwits? If you don't understand "Do Not Touch," and are too stupid, ignorant or entitled to realise that handling museum or exhibition artefacts without permission is against the rules, then you get kicked out. Immediately. Or preferably charged with destruction of property etc. The only way this sort of waste of oxygen tourist learns is if it inconveniences them-if they don't get punished, they'll keep on doing it everywhere they go, touching and vandalising artefacts, upsetting animals and destroying property.
highwaycrossingfrog 4 months ago
I'm pretty sure there *is* a zero tolerance policy and this woman got thrown out
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 4 months ago
I was at Versailles when I was 9 years old. My brother and I would not have DARED to touch anything! Different times; a different world.
T Barth 4 months ago
This is why they're eventually going to start putting fiberglass or glass partitions up to protect artifacts etc from the protesters, the disrespectful and the clueless etc and ruin the experience for others.
Laserleader 4 months ago (edited)
I've been on many house tours and they always had a rope or partition for the areas to keep people out. But is that just an American tradition, because it sounds like other places don't? Not that its an excuse...but people are dumb from every nationality.
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#41
I used to give tours at my university. There was a group of middle schoolers I was giving a tour to (to show them why they should want to go college...yatta yatta).
There was this one kid who kept trying to sneak away and was whistling at just about every girl who walked by. Weird. Okay, whatever, he thinks he's a big shot.
Then a very attractive girl comes jogging by us, and he tried to GRAB HER and starts AIR H*****G while he watches her run away from us. I was mortified.
I ended the tour. I was done with him. The teachers didn't even care, that was probably the worst part.
Bartlet for world domination 4 months ago (edited)
I thought AIR HORNING so there's still some innocence left in this brain that's been on the internet for 30 years.
#42
Not a tour guide, but my family and I took a tour in Dominica that took us through a cavern. The highlight of that tour was to show us a beautiful waterfall that has sunlight peeking through. The tour guide told us a million times before going into the cavern and when we were inside to stay on the edge and NOT try to go too close to the middle because people have been sucked under and died there.
Some idiot ignored him regardless in hopes to take a selfie there and couldn’t get out, so the tour guide in frustration had to risk his own life to save that moron. I hope that jerk tipped him extra at the end for saving his life.
Daya Meyer 4 months ago
Can't there some sort of policy for people like this that they have to bear the consequences after given a proper warning? Like pay for professionell rescue or police or ambulance?
How about no 4 months ago
If something like this happens once in a while then why don't say have any safety guards or a boje or something there so the tour guides don't have to risk their lives?
#43
Was on a tour of a small cave system somewhere in west Texas. It was really beautiful and right after the guide told us how long it took for all the stalagmites and stalactites to form she turned around to move on and some guy leans way over and snaps off a small one and shoved it in his pocket!!! I was so surprised I just stared at him and he smiled and winked at me like we had really gotten away with something and I was a co-conspirator or something.
#44
Oh cool something I can respond to.
I was at some resort location in Mexico I was invited to. A kind of tourist activity island and I was invired the day of. I didn't really want to to be there and everything was a million times out of my price zone.
The one thing I was interested in, a 20ft cliff jump attraction I was in line for was surrounded by coati. Which are Mexican raccoons. They kinda act like monkeys and walk on two legs and reach around with their arms, I guess to make humans give then food.
Anyways a young girl was tracking one and pushing up all across the line when she got to a spot where the rope met the ledge, gave it food and was immediately bitten on the hand. My brother tied his shirt around her wrist(she was bleeding bad) and walked her to the bottom where they had a safety officer waiting.
They had many signs saying not to feed animals and even a life guard told her to stop. Some people just do not listen.
Jackie Lulu 4 months ago
We were at a Mexican resort with coatis everywhere. At an outdoor restaurant, a couple allowed a coati to jump on the table with their small children ! (OMG) it ran away with their food. Could have been a lot worse, as they really do bite. How dumb can you get.
#45
When I visited Auschwitz there were people taking selfies in front of the wall of death, where people were e**cuted.
Mabelbabel 4 months ago
There was a digital art project called "Yolocaust" a few years ago. There was a spate of social media posts of idiots clowning around on the railway tracks at the entrance to Auschwitz and at the Berlin Hòlocaust Memorial, so the artist took the images and superimposed them on images of victims from the camps. He didn't specifically identify the person who had posted on social media (he took the pictures from publically available profiles) but obviously it became known who these morons were. He later published some emails he got from them, it was as you'd expect "I've got an edgy sense of humour" or "This isn't who I am" pathetic excuses for being braindead asshòles.
#46
I was a tour guide at a historic village museum (similar to Colonial Williamsburg). The worst thing was the blatant sexual harassment by some older male visitors towards our female guides (some who obviously look under 16) who wear the old fashioned dresses. You'd be surprised how many men on group tours openly ask our staff members to show them what's under their dress, talk about how it used to be acceptable to marry girls under 16 and how they wish it was still acceptable, or make pretty gross sexual remarks about our staff members in front of the group and I. When you would call them out on their behavior as being inappropriate they would act like you were wrong for getting offended by it and that we should accept it since we were demonstrating life in the 18th century. I heard and saw some pretty bad stuff which would make both the other guests and staff uncomfortable.
It also wasn't uncommon for people to sneak away from the tour group to go into restricted areas in an attempt to hunt the ghosts which are supposedly on the property. Theres a reason those places are out of bounds, there can be irreplaceable artifacts we don't want accidentally damaged, tools, or the area hasn't been cleared by the fire marshal to allow guest access. Small things have been broken by people doing this. People love to get confrontational about being told they can't go into restricted areas or touch the artifacts despite all the signs hung up.
Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
That's why they continue to support him. He give them permission to act out all of their despicable behavior.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 4 months ago
Here's the thing: a lot of disturbing stuff used to be completely acceptable. As we evolved, we made laws preventing these things, because we realized how disturbing they are. Just because it was normal 200 years ago does not make it normal today. Evolve, ffs.
#47
I worked at a not so little Australian zoo. Anytime a bus full of Chinese pulled up we would subtly have more keepers around the kangaroo petting area because they would repeatedly try and pull joeys out of pouches. So lucky our Roos were lazy, over fed bastards.
#48
White water rafting guide in Alaska. We stopped for lunch on a gravel bar. Getting back in the boats a guest took one step into the boat and then a second step right out the other side and into roaring rapids. She didn’t fall, she just calmly walked right over the edge. She ended up pinned under a partially submerged tree 300 yards downstream. Took 5 guides to rescue her. I leant her an expensive jacket from my dry bag after fishing her out. She stole the jacket.
I'm probably a t-rex 3 months ago
There seem to be a lot of dumba$$es on white water rafting tours...
#49
I used to give walking tours of Old Vegas back in the day. During one ill-fated March afternoon I had a group consisting of a Mother and Son, a British Couple, a pair from Indiana, and a middle aged man from China. Long story short, the Chinese man dropped his trousers and took a s**t right on the sidewalk infront of the Golden Nugget without saying a word and carrying on as if nothing had happened.
Jay Cee 4 months ago
Apparently there are people on this site who believe in any old cräp they've been told.
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KM 4 months ago
if you did visit, you would learn that Chinese cities are generally quite clean
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Tour guide at my university.
I led a tour with a very overbearing father and his quiet daughter, among 4 other people. As I led the tour, I tried my best to gear the information toward the students' interests and chosen programs to make sure they got the most information.
In the middle of my tour, I referred to the daughter's program and the dad just blew up, yelling at me that his daughter is underage and it's unprofessional that I hit on her on the tour.
He asked to speak to my supervisor, who helped me explain to him that I'm gay and I had had a boyfriend for almost a year at that point.
#51
Not a tour guide but went on a bicycle tour in Indonesia with my partner and in discussion with our guide he said that people go on the tour without being able to ride a bike. On a bike tour. Apparently the 3 hour tour took nearly 5 hours.
Stephanie Did It 4 months ago
How about requiring each tourist to ride a marked-out circle and a figure 8 before they're allowed on the tour? That would weed most of the non-riders.
#52
I’m a boat tour guide in a famous tourist city and most of my horror stories involve Chinese tourists! I once had a very old Chinese lady on my boat, she was baiting the ducks and geese towards here with bread and as soon as this poor duck got close enough she snatched it out of the water like nothing I’ve ever seen! She then opened her purse and tried to start stuffing this duck into it! I start yelling at her trying to get her to stop - as I do the younger males in her your group started shouting at me for shouting at this v old lady! In the end she released it but not without the duck losing half its feathers!
#53
Not a tour guide but I was on a tour of Auschwitz a few months ago. As you can imagine it's a very solemn place. Because it's the final resting place of so many people, they ask visitors to stay respectful throughout the whole place - no selfies, no joking, no phones, no talking above a whisper, even no talking at all in some areas. Because of this the whole place has has a very somber feel, almost like a funeral.
A group from another European country that was going round at the same time of us didn't follow these rules. They were shouting to each other while walking around the concentration camp, talking on their phones, one guy through his gum on the floor, talking loudly even inside one of the still standing gas chambers (where ask you to be the most respectful), taking photos of each other posing outside the gas chamber, barbed wire fences and other macabre backdrops. When a tour guide would ask them to stop, they would for a time and then resume.
It was an infuriating experience. Our tour guide said that unfortunately it happens all the time and groups from that country specifically are the worst offenders. She'd personally had to stop a picnic on a grassy patch outside of the gas chamber.
Stephanie Did It 4 months ago
I checked the original Reddit post to see if OP identified the country. Lots of guesses from commenters but they never did confirm a place.
Happy Onion 4 months ago (edited)
Well you know it's likely not Poland. :(
Load More Replies... Jay Cee 4 months ago
A colleague went there a few years ago, wrestled with his conscience about whether it was the right thing to do. A couple of coach loads of German teenagers pulled up and were whooping and generally being teenagers. Their teachers tried in vain to control them. Then they went in through the gate. They got more and more subdued as the Polish guide explained what had happened at this spot or that. Then the sobbing began, then the crying - boys and girls - and then they started throwing up in the waste bins. And that is why we need to keep these memorials open and respected.
#54
I was on a tour with my family in Cambodia and we visited Angkor Wat. Now as everyone knows, Angkor Wat is teeming with tourists day and night. There was a long line to climb the Bakan (basically the topmost tower, wherein the steps are very steep). It was a hot day and when it was almost our turn, a middle-aged man took two steps, fell backward and started having a seizure.
People came to his help immediately. However, one man who was also crowding around him did nothing but pull out his cellphone and start recording. Thankfully, everyone noticed and started yelling at the guy to put that s**t away. He acted like the victim though and he said he was "just trying to help".
What a t**t.
EDIT: People are saying the guy was probably filming it to show paramedics but a) the victim's family was there and if anyone had the right to collect evidence, it's them and b) recording dude was grinning widely until he was called out so I seriously doubt he had good intentions despite his claims.
Nadine Debard 4 months ago (edited)
And yet if the family is overwhelmed they won't think about filming and a crisis can be quick and you may not have the time to ask. When my baby started shaking at 4 months, fortunately I had my phone and filmed him. The doctors were very happy with it and the video was shown to the whole neuro-pediatric service. I didn't notice that he had lost consciousness, and many other details that the video taught them. **Edit : while I own my comment about filming, my bad, I didn't read carefully the guy was grinning, what a piece of shìt.
Daya Meyer 4 months ago
And the video ist still necessary while the family and other witnesses are around? The family of this man could have had experienced such events knowing exactly what to tell the paramedics.
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#55
I once was a tour guide in high school for a group of young Chinese students coming to the rural US on a sort of “fresh air” trip. They told us beforehand that we had to keep the kids away from water because apparently parents don’t value swimming lessons in China and there is such little open swimmable water that no one learns on their own. We were also told that the kids think swimming happens “naturally” — like if you go into water, you’ll immediately start swimming.
Anyways, one of our excursions was to a local reservoir and the plan was to hike up a hill nearby to overlook the reservoir lake, get a few photos, and then leave. When we got to the top, it started POURING rain like I had never seen before. I’m talking so much rain you can’t see 5 feet in front of you. Then lightning starts striking the lake and I’m still trying to keep it cool even though I had never been so close to lightning before. The students were taking it well and laughing, which was good, until they started running _directly for the lake_ and *jump in*. Apparently they had also never learned about electricity conducting through water, so I’m freaking out and start pulling them out of the water (they weren’t in very far) and a couple of them complain that their phones were wet... in the rain.
No one got hurt, but it was a crazy day. We got back on the bus and the kids started drinking liquor in the back (they ranged ages 9-16) and I had to bust them for that too.
TL;DR: apparently Chinese kids think swimming will just happen if you go in water, especially lightning-struck water.
#56
I work in the backcountry ski guiding industry, working my way to becoming a lead guide. Guest are always trying to k**l themselves but here’s one that stands out . Right now I mostly tail guide and pick people up when they fall , which is most of the time.
One particularly deep day I’m sweeping a tree run and all of a sudden there’s a man digging frantically in the snow towards a a pair of legs . His wife had fallen head first down slope in a Flatish area. When she lawn darted the first half of her body was buried in the snow and only her legs and feet were visible. Her husband thought it was a good idea to stand on top we’re her face obviously was and star digging near the exposed part of her body. I guess in the moment he forgot about human anatomy and where her head might be !?
At this point I was maybe 3 minutes behind them so she’d had her face under the surface for a while. I told him to stop and move , yelled “ STOP YOU’RE ON HER FACE , I tried added a couple expletives but nothing. I finally had to grab him by the backpack and power bomb him down the slope. I uncovered her face in under 10 seconds. She gasped for air , had a cry and then proceeded to tear that man to pieces verbally.
#57
Not a tour guide, but in a tour of the Parisian catacombs, we had a pair of people wander off twi or three times. The tour guide spent so much time minding them, that see cut it short.
Then we get to the part with the bones, and they start picking up skulls to play with and get selfies. Tour guide didn't even see that one.
Nikki Sevven 4 months ago
Some people have never been past the end of the sidewalk, and wrongly believe that nothing bad can happen to them.
#58
Not a tour guide but I guess you could say I work in the tourism industry. I work ground crew for a company that does Helicopter tours. Number one rule for customers is “DON’T WALK UNDER THE TAIL BOOM, THE ROTOR WILL K**L YOU AND IT WILL HURT”. It’s unbelievable how many people have a death wish out there. People see the fastest way to the other side of the helicopter and don’t stop to think “Oh hey, that spinning blade may or may not slice my whole f*****g head off let’s see how close we can get to it!”.
Janissary35680 4 months ago
Depends on where the rotor blade catches you.🚁
Load More Replies... Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
Recall a tourist who walked into the tail rotor while taking a video (camcorder). From what I recall, he had it zoomed and did not realize he was as close as he was. Also - In addition to the rotor, some helis like the Hughes 500 have the exhaust at the rear so idiots can get cooked and diced.
#59
As someone who's been working in tourism in Iceland for close to a decade its really hard to tell just a single story...
One that comes to mind is when i met someone on top of a GLACIER wearing business casual clothing and no safety equipment..
Or the guy that tried crossing a popular river on the south coast and managed to turn a Landover into a submarine.
OR the group of university students that lied about their insurance coverage and parked their minibus/camper by the black gravely beach during a sandstorm... That broke half the windows and destroyed the exterior of the car..
Please for the love of god people, be careful when traveling abroad!!!
#60
Not a tour guide but this happened while we were being given a tour of a milk packaging factory that we intended to shoot for a commercial. Control was super tight, we needed special permission, sterilized suits, goggles and hair nets just to get inside.
The director goes over to one side of the factory to check the lighting, see if it's a good angle to shoot. He photographs the whole place to keep as reference and then it happens... He drops his phone... Into an open vat of milk.
The factory had to shut down immediately. Over 150.000 liters of milk had to be scrapped, the vats had to be washed and sterilized, the health inspector had to be called down so production could restart. It was an unmitigated mess and I have no idea how we were still allowed to shoot inside the factory after that. Although each crew member had to get a one-hour training session before going in.
crashthegreenhat 4 months ago
Bet you that production company got a really big bill for all of that lost product and labor.
#61
Worked as a tour guide at a few really old churches. Most people were fantastic but some are astonishingly douchey.
Three types of tourists come up pretty often:
1) those who interrupt to sound smart and it backfires miserably ("Ohhh the bell tower collapsed in 1605? Well OBVIOUSLY it was damaged by peasants at the start of the French Revolution as all symbols of religion were reviled..." nah bro you're like 180 years off, I don't know how you f****d up that badly)
2) those who DEMAND to see closed sections of the church (one lady threatened to "call the archbishop on me" because I couldn't take her down to the crypt-- look, it's locked and no one's seen the key in like 300 years, I don't know what to tell you)
3) those who mock me/try to challenge me on every part of the tour. If you hate it so much then why are you paying to be here?
again, they were the exceptions-- 99.999% of the time, I had a lot of fun and really enjoyed the groups I led. But some people seem to go out of their way to be stupid/rude :(
Edit: forgot, one time a man demanded a different tour guide because he "wouldn't be led around by a dirty Russian." I'm not Russian, I don't speak Russian, I have no idea why he was so convinced I was Russian.
#62
Friend of mine does tours of whiskey museums in Dublin. Someone took a s**t in one of the exhibition rooms.
Cuppa tea? 4 months ago
Worked in Jameson Distillery at Bow street. Occasionally we had large groups from countries where parent company operates. Most were OK, some less. The highlight was one lass stealing display bottle at shop. She was caught. Even though technically not employee, but still - your work for same corporation.
#63
Technically not a tour guide but saw a kid throw a whole bag of chips in a dolphin pool, like almost a full bag. You weren't actually supposed to have food in the dolphin show but this m**********r brought a bag of chips nonetheless.
They had to stop the whole dolphin show after he did that and I can't remember but I think him and his parents got kicked out afterwards.
Edit: I don't endorse dolphins being captive or anything, this is just my experience. Please take your animal rights comments somewhere else. Simply answering a question.
#64
We were in Australia, visiting Uluru. There was a section where it was so sacred that photographs were not even permitted; I leave this couple alone to take in the scenery and I come back approx 7 minutes later to see them full blown naked f*****g the brains out of each other.
TL:DR: Had a break, couple started f*****g at sacred site.
#65
I was a curator of a castle in the UK. The keep was mainly a ruin but still stood 4 storeys high and was on the edge of a cliff. The amount of chinese tourists that used to climb up the crumbling stonework right tothe too just to have their picture taken was unbelievable! It was a 300ft drop onto solid stone.
We also surprisingly had a lot of Americans try and prise bits of the stonework off to take home as a souvenir. It got so bad that when we did repair and restoration work to the stone we kept all the extra chippings in a big bin near the gate with a sign on it saying if you want a bit of castle please take some of this and not hack it off the buildings.
#66
Not *their* guide, but, I had to give a group of grown men a stern talking too about no monkeying around under rail cars at a railway museum. They went on to climb around on top of a boxcar. The kids I was giving tours to that day were much better behaved.
#67
Not a tour guide but -
I spent about 6 months living in Melbourne and at the end of the pier at St Kilda beach there’s a small colony of penguins that go out to fish during the day and come back once it’s dusk. The penguins are a HUGE tourist attraction and always draw a large crowd, there’s signs everywhere saying to stick to the walkways and NOT use any flash when taking photos. So anyway I’m down there watching the penguins come in one night and this South American lass starts taking picture after picture with her flash on on her little compact camera, there’s about 5 or 6 volunteers that stay where the colony is to stop people using flash and going off the walkways etc and when they see this woman they go over and tell her to stop, she then begins to run away from them still taking photos and firing her flash off in random directions, then comes back round the bottom boardwalk and tries to flash as many penguins as she can shouting she should be allowed to do whatever she wants because there’s no signs (?) must’ve been blind.
TLDR idiot tourist blinds penguins with camera flash.
#68
I was on a tour in the Chernobyl exclusion zone and there was a group of students showing they had zero idea what nuclear radiation is. Asking questions like why there isn't any farming in the zone, and then arguing with the tour guide. One guy was literally touching everything and then dipping his hands in a bag with crisps. When he got a nosebleed halfway through I told him it was the radiation sickness kicking in.
Of course when we were checked before leaving the zone he had to be decontaminated. What an idiot.
#69
Visitor: "You're not from around here, are you?"
Me: "Actually I am, born and raised."
Visitor: "Well I've been coming to the south for 25 years and you just don't seem like you're from here."
Me: "Well ummmm my parent's don't have strong accents either."
Visitor: "I just think I would like you better if you had a southern accent."
Sorry that playing up to stereotypes is not in our visitor's services manual. I'm here to talk about history not recreate your southern fantasy.
#70
When I was in France touring WWI and WWII memorials, the actual tour guide didn't speak English, so I was commissioned to be the translator for all the British and American tourists. I was Assistant to the Regional Tour Guide, so I hope my story counts.
We were at Verdun, and it was a pretty free-for-all tour where the kids could somewhat play alongside the craters' edges, to really drive home the eeriness of a war zone overtaken by normalcy. Anyway, Middle-Aged American B***o says, "Wow, all of the craters and hills here must have been really convenient for the fighting! They're lucky they picked such a location!"
LADY ARE YOU FOR REAL.
Stephanie Did It 4 months ago
She must have been really impressed that they built the beaches so close to the ocean!
#71
I was on a tour of the Vatican and one person seriously kept asking when we get to meet the pope.
Mabelbabel 4 months ago
Many years ago, I was on a tour of Windsor and Windsor Castle, and part of it took us past Eton (the school). One of the Americans on the tour asked when we'd see the Queen, and then later asked if we'd be visiting Prince William (who was studying at Eton). I think he thought they were like Disney character actors or something.
#72
I'm in the middle of talking and someone's phone rings. Ok, that happens sometimes, and usually they'd just cancel the call or step outside. Nope, this guy answers the call and starts talking on the phone, only a few metres from where I'm standing. I think, 'oh he'll just quickly explain he's busy and end the call', nope! He starts a conversation... The rest of the group glare at him and I'm put in an awkward position because my workplace put a huge emphasis on politeness. So I suggest to him to continue his call in the hallway, just outside the room we were in, to which he replied 'no, I'm fine here', and went back to his phone conversation. I'm doing my best to talk to the rest of the group (about 25 people), but he's *so* loud! Eventually this Chinese woman yells across the room at him "shut up, we want to listen to the lady, not you" which worked. But I just couldn't imagine the nerve to ruin everyone's experience like that, cos you're too selfish to talk on the phone outside.
Also, the place I worked allowed photos but had a strict 'no photos of the staff' rule for privacy reasons. I always explained this at the start and 99% of people were cool. One day I had a particularly happy snapper who got right up in a staff members face to take a photo, like I'm taking centremetres from his face to take a photo. The staffer was just some rando middle aged white dude, so I'm not sure why the fascination, but he was livid. It's like I saw it happen in slow motion so couldn't do anything to stop it. That guy was removed from the tour.
#73
Took a class of middle schoolers to a museum and one of my a*****e students dragged his hand across a 3000 year old Indian painting. Later on I found out the object was almost certainly a reproduction but I nearly died of rage on the spot.
Edit: the student was with us on a 45 day placement for severe behavioral issues. He earned enough point in school to qualify for the field trip. Never again.
#74
Not a tour guide, but when i was at Ile de Gorée (old slave island infront of Senegal) there was a building where the slaves used to be kept and one big door that opened to the sea. All the slaves used to go through that door and into the boats to get shipped away. So a very loaded place with bad memorys. And this one dude is posing in the door, low v-neck with sunglasses on, smiling into the camera! Like wtf, he was leaning on the door and throwing up peace signs. So disrespectful.
#75
Was a part time tour guide. There was this chinese couple from mainland China who went to a top-end hotel buffet, where there were top dignitaries and VIP guests around. They took one plate in each hand (that's 4 plates in total) and swaggered up to the prawns section, cutting the queue of about 10 people along the way while seemingly oblivious to the glares they received.
That's when the real shocker came. Instead of using the tongs provided, they used their plates to literally dig, like a shovel, at the tub of prawns. They were using their plates as shovels to scoop out copious amount of prawns as if they had been starving for prawns for an eternity. Everyone was mortified at such crude behavior and despite the stunned silence and stares, they just walked away with about 4 absolutely stacked plates of prawns. Their demeanor was as if they were kings and queens, their head held high while walking back to their table as if everyone were insects beneath them.
I had to go up and tell them that such behavior was unacceptable in our country. Thankfully they were willing to listen. It always amazes me how people can be so wealthy but lacking the class and dignity of their economic status.
Rose the Cook 4 months ago
Had someone behave like this at a buffet restaurant in Australia. Friend from work brought her Aussie boyfriend and he did just as described. Forever referred to as "The prawn man" even more than 20 years later.
#76
Not a guide, but I recently returned from a hiking trip to Yosemite. I was astonished by the amount of people who were so unprepared for the strenuous hikes. I witnessed people wearing flip-flops and ladies carrying sparkly high-priced handbags - on hikes!
Good grief, surely they had some idea of where they were going. It's not like they were dropped off by a friend who yelled "surprise!".
#77
Am tour guide. "How long is the aboriginal ladys' gestational period?" - American tourist at Uluru (Ayers Rock) Australia. Just wow.
#78
Was lobster diving Palm Beach off a boat. Had a group of fellas and a smoking hot babe with them, they were in wet suits, she had nice 2 piece bikini. When you lobster, you carry a net bag with a long string to carry your catch. They had hooks/snaps to drag around. She, just tied it to her bottom bikini. They did well, putting their catch in the bags, letting them fall behind. When thy were surfacing, a great barracuda went for a snack. A tasty lobster in a bag, with the bottom bikini attached. Needless to say, the girl went up the ladder first to get on the dive boat. She didn't even flinch! I was the divemaster/guide at that time. Some things you just can't tell people.
#79
Not a tour guide, but I went on a trip to Amsterdam/Germany with my college once.
A group of about 5 girls got so drunk that they slept through the entire bus tour of Berlin. I got drunk the night before too, but seriously? Don't get so drunk that you miss the entire reason you spent all that money to come here. Save your money and get s****y drunk at home.
#80
They took a big s**t in front of the group. So, we tour through streets and parks and make it really clear that the toilets at the beginning of the tour are the only ones for the first 90 minutes of tour. We get to a park about 30 mins into the tour. Not a big park mind you, it is basically a big roundabout with a swing set, bench and two trees. I'm in the middle of my spiel in the park when I see a guy at the back of the group, step away, pull his pants down and squat on the grass. Of course I was stunned and lost my flow which had everyone looking around only to recoil in horror as this guy drops a log like it was nothing. He wasn't even ashamed.
#81
Once had a group of people ignore the warning signs and stepped over the hobbit feature here in NZ to take photos safe to say they distroyed the set causing it to under go 6 months of rebuilding to get it back upto par.
#82
My cousin does snorkeling tours. She had to drag a lady away from a turtle because she was trying to touch it.
#83
Was a campus tour guide for 2 years. A parent (who was also an alum) of one of touring high schoolers asked in front of the entire group if anyone “was still jumping off the clock tower?” I gave him a confused look and said no? He proceeded to tell everyone that three people jumped off the tower while he was a student there. Thanks for bringing that up dude really sensitive and considerate of ya.
KatWitch57 4 months ago
Because we don't want to give the new students any ideas.
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Technicaly not a tour guide but we had excursion at our work place. We took them to apron of the airport to show them the freighter version of B737. Fortunately the airport does not have lots of traffic. The group wanted to snap some photos of the plane. One of them wanted to have full plane in the photo so she started to walk further away from the group unintentionally walking to taxiway. It was a big oopsie and we didnt have any more excursions anymore also we had to fill security incident report.
#85
Watching a Chinese tourist lean over a red velvet rope and touch a tapestry on the wall at the freaking Vatican.
#86
In Wyoming it is common to buy bear spray (highly concentrated pepper spray) when heading into Yellowstone. One tourist believed it was bear repellent, lined up his family and sprayed all of them. Chemical burns for everyone!
As a raft guide we regularly got asked whether we would be passing the same spot/going through the same rapid later in the journey. We would reply "why yes, this is actually one of the only circular rivers in the world!"
Q: "How deep is the river?"
A: "About chest high on a duck!".
#87
I was on one of those Big Bus tours of San Francisco in the evening. Last ride for the night. The tour guide probably mentioned five times before leaving that it would be freezing up top and that no one could go up or down the stairs during the hour tour because it was dangerous.
This couple was at the top with their INFANT (wearing nothing but a onesie with a thin bed sheet over the carrier). The tour guide suggested multiple times that they stay downstairs since it would be freezing. Well, it felt something like 30 degrees or less and the poor baby was crying the entire time before we had to pull over (after 30-40 minutes) so the couple could take their popsicle baby inside the bus to thaw out. Best parents of the year, choosing a better view over their baby's well being.
#88
Not me but when my aunt and uncle went to Bethlehem, some idiot tried to climb into the manger that it is believed that Jesus was put in after he was born.
#89
I'm a guide for a popular mainstream brewery. The way tours work there, we always have two guides per tour: one leading and one closing the group, for safety reasons.
When we greet people, part of our spiel consists in pointing out the fact that the only toilets are located at the entrance - so right where we are standing at the moment - and the pub at the end of tour. We also make it very clear that no one should at any point be behind the closing guide, no matter what. Both of these will be important later on.
So, on the day this happened, the other guide and I were alternating between leading and closing. We greeted our group of ~25 people and noticed there was a little boy of around 4 there with his parents. This wasn't the first time something of the sort happened, but I'll never understand why people feel the need to bring their children and even babies to a brewery. Much less one that is advertised as being difficult to walk around. Oh well. We leave with our group and everything is fine until we reach the brew room. At this point, while my colleague is explaining the beer making process, the father approaches me saying that his son needs the toilet. I tell him that we are close to the pub and ask if he can wait five minutes so we could all leave the brew room together, or if he'd rather the three of us leave for the pub immediately and rejoin the group later on. He answers "nevermind" and rejoins the group. After a minute or so, I hear the door to the room opening and closing, this is a big no-no of course, because we need to always be aware of where everyone is. So, I go to investigate and find the father holding his son while he pees around the corner... fml.
#91
A family of Muslims wouldn't buy pictures unless we edited the family of Jews out of the group photo. I was a zipline guide, we were six stories in the air for a couple hours. Really really awkward. You could cut the tension with a knife. The Jews were super nice, and tipped $20 the Muslims were crazy mean and left $0.
What do you think ?
Tomato Smudge 4 months ago
These tour guides are so patient. I'd have picked violence if I were in their place.
Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
Not a guide but was on Ski patrol. In the early/late season we would go out and close off sections where the snow was thin and rocks exposed. We were almost finished ribboning off the edge of one run when some clown blew past us yelling "I can go where-ever I want" quickly followed by the sound of his ski bases being destroyed .
Cerridwn d'Wyse 4 months ago
Most times these days the fact that I am American is enough to p**s me off because people are such a******s but this type of thing makes me sad to be human
Cee Cee 4 months ago (edited)
Used to work in a 17th century gardens and ran the propagation. Once a year we had an Open Day. My Edwardian glasshouses were part of the Open Day. Caught people stealing the plants I'd raised. There is a lovely grotto lined with shells and minerals. Security had to stand by to prevent idiots prising off the shells etc. Best was the balloon fiesta when we had some Russians staying in the halls of residence. Happy to swap some spare geraniums for their pink champagne!
Philly Bob 3 months ago
I worked for Independence National Historical Park. School tours... nuff said.
Fraxinus excelsior 4 months ago
I remember as a kid if we visited anywhere historic etc. either on holiday or on a school trip that you never touched anything. I don't know where it went wrong. I've been lucky enough to visit Italy a few times and the amount of people who can't abide by the simple rules of no flash photography is astounding and usually it's people who are old enough to know better.
Jackie Lulu 4 months ago
Besides being really dumb, some people have an incredible sense of entitlement. Takes my breath away.
Karri Berkowitz 4 months ago
Worked at a zoo. Parents would set their kids on the wall ABOVE the alligators that were being fed.
Tomato Smudge 4 months ago
These tour guides are so patient. I'd have picked violence if I were in their place.
Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
Not a guide but was on Ski patrol. In the early/late season we would go out and close off sections where the snow was thin and rocks exposed. We were almost finished ribboning off the edge of one run when some clown blew past us yelling "I can go where-ever I want" quickly followed by the sound of his ski bases being destroyed .
Cerridwn d'Wyse 4 months ago
Most times these days the fact that I am American is enough to p**s me off because people are such a******s but this type of thing makes me sad to be human
Cee Cee 4 months ago (edited)
Used to work in a 17th century gardens and ran the propagation. Once a year we had an Open Day. My Edwardian glasshouses were part of the Open Day. Caught people stealing the plants I'd raised. There is a lovely grotto lined with shells and minerals. Security had to stand by to prevent idiots prising off the shells etc. Best was the balloon fiesta when we had some Russians staying in the halls of residence. Happy to swap some spare geraniums for their pink champagne!
Philly Bob 3 months ago
I worked for Independence National Historical Park. School tours... nuff said.
Fraxinus excelsior 4 months ago
I remember as a kid if we visited anywhere historic etc. either on holiday or on a school trip that you never touched anything. I don't know where it went wrong. I've been lucky enough to visit Italy a few times and the amount of people who can't abide by the simple rules of no flash photography is astounding and usually it's people who are old enough to know better.
Jackie Lulu 4 months ago
Besides being really dumb, some people have an incredible sense of entitlement. Takes my breath away.
Karri Berkowitz 4 months ago
Worked at a zoo. Parents would set their kids on the wall ABOVE the alligators that were being fed.
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