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When Canadian Tourists Behaved Badly

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 03 Aug, 2016 01:24 PM
    Newfoundland authorities are investigating after people poured bubble bath into waterways in a park and at an interpretative centre. 
     
    Some other recent examples of Canadian tourists behaving badly:
     
    - A Quebec man and his son loaded a Yellowstone National Park bison calf into their vehicle on May 9, 2016, because they thought it was an abandoned newborn that would die without their help. The calf was later euthanized because it couldn't be reunited with its herd after being handled. 
     
    Shamash Kassam was fined $235 and ordered to pay $500 to a Yellowstone protection fund after pleading guilty to intentionally disturbing wildlife.
     
    - Two Saskatchewan siblings spent three days in jail after stripping naked on top of a sacred mountain in Malaysia on May 30, 2105. Lindsey and Danielle Petersen said they were not aware of the spiritual significance of Mount Kinabalu when they were among 10 foreigners who stripped and took photos. 
     
     
    A local official claimed their behaviour caused an earthquake a few days later that killed 18 climbers. They pleaded guilty to public indecency, fined the equivalent of about $1,600 Canadian each and were immediately deported.
     
    - A drunk man smoking a cigar took a dip in a thermal pool that is home to a type of endangered snail in Banff National Park in November, 2014. Bailey Thomas Townsend, 27, was fined $4,500 after pleading guilty to entering a restricted area. He was caught bathing at the Cave and Basin National Historic Site, the only place where the Banff springs snail is found, despite being warned not to.

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