Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel – part of India’s Andaman Islands – in an attempt to meet the Sentinelese people, who are believed to number only about 150.

“The American citizen was presented before the local court after his arrest and is now on a three-day remand for further interrogation,” the Andaman and Nicobar Islands police chief, HGS Dhaliwal, told AFP.

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    Yeah, the locals would have killed him, skinned him, and ate him, and if he’s lucky, in that order. Don’t fuck with the Sentinelese.

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      But they might have caught some disease of him and died. We have to keep up food safety standards for these guys.

    • I know what you are getting at - but, have there really been accounts of cannibalism among the Sentinelese? I only know of their habits of killing strangers, often in mocking and ridiculing ways.

      Also - as an aside - beyond protecting dumbass tourists from themselves - it’s also there to protect an island population like this from any new pathogens that may be spread inadvertently. So it’s not just him being a dumbass concerning his own safety, he was also a dumbass where it concerns their safety, too.

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      The Sentinelese people are not known to practice cannibalism, or flaying.

      Your comment doesn’t make the American idiot look worse. It makes the Sentinelese sound awful.

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        I’m learning new stuff every day.

        I was wrong and I found out today that they don’t eat people, but they do kill people. Still though, best not to go to places like that.

        I apologize for being incredibly offensive, and won’t do any dirty deletes.