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re: Millennial Couple Bikes Through ISIS Territory to Prove ‘Humans Are Kind’ and Gets Killed
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:02 am to TimeOutdoors
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:02 am to TimeOutdoors
quote:You should never do anything within 1000 miles of Afghanistan.
It's a mountain road by the Afghan border.
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Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:02 am to Hangover Haven
Where on the Pamir Highway were they? A large portion of the Pamir Highway makes up the northeast border of Afghanistan/Tajikistan.
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:04 am to GRTiger
Guess they found out evil exists.
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:04 am to CAD703X
Darwin Award winner
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:05 am to monroe71201
quote:Exactly.
Where on the Pamir Highway were they? A large portion of the Pamir Highway makes up the northeast border of Afghanistan/Tajikistan.
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:07 am to Emteein
quote:
though technically this area is not "ISIS territory" the "governments" in place aren't really controlling things either.
Tajikistan is an authoritarian nearly one-party state where things like freedom of the press, public protests, and calls for inciting violence are severely restricted.
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:08 am to CAD703X
Plot Twist: It was the Russians who killed them.
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:09 am to Wheaux
quote:
Darwin wins again.
Eta
Ugh, Buzz your girlfriend, woof.
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:11 am to Scruffy
quote:
You should never do anything within 1000 miles of Afghanistan.
My company does a lot of work in India. Should I laugh if a colleague gets killed there because of how close to Kabul they were?
Stop being an idiot.
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:12 am to BottomlandBrew
If you enter a country that ends in -stan you’re gonna have a bad time.
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:13 am to IllegalPete
I support people who have an office job and want to get away from that lifestyle. If you don't have kids and you can afford not to do that....great. Where I disagree with them philosophically is biking through an ISIS territory. They wanted to do Europe and stay away from that shite, great. Kind of stupid to go anywhere near where they went.
On a funny side note, it would be great if the last picture in the series of posted photos would be some terrorist coming at them with a knife. Or maybe not but at least it would be an accurate representation of their trip.
On a funny side note, it would be great if the last picture in the series of posted photos would be some terrorist coming at them with a knife. Or maybe not but at least it would be an accurate representation of their trip.
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:14 am to GetCocky11
quote:
Tajikistan is an authoritarian nearly one-party state where things like freedom of the press, public protests, and calls for inciting violence are severely restricted.
Apparently, they have an ISIS presence as well. Who knew?
This post was edited on 8/16/18 at 9:15 am
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:14 am to CAD703X
I guarantee you they were trying to tell their killers “we’re not like the bad Americans. We’re good Americans and we know you’re all good people too. You don’t have to kill us.”
I’m not celebrating their deaths, it is truly a sad statement. Stupidity, indeed, kills.
I’m not celebrating their deaths, it is truly a sad statement. Stupidity, indeed, kills.
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:17 am to Wheaux
Idiots thinking the world is some Utopia love all nonsense
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:18 am to Floating Change Up
Met a British guy in India who a couple years earlier had driven from England to Mongolia I believe, camping along the way. Even went through Afghanistan. On way back by air travel they were in Russia when the hockey team plane crash occurred.
Anywho, probably a super cool trip but also tempting fate.
Anywho, probably a super cool trip but also tempting fate.
This post was edited on 8/16/18 at 9:19 am
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:20 am to CAD703X
RIP
I would guess they had Bernie Sanders stickers on their car or bike
I would guess they had Bernie Sanders stickers on their car or bike
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:20 am to GRTiger
quote:
My company does a lot of work in India. Should I laugh if a colleague gets killed there because of how close to Kabul they were?
I hope that the company you work for provides a security detail for said colleagues. The outfit I used to work for went into Iraq right after the invasion to fix pipelines those fricktards blew up. Fun stuff working in an active war zone. We used private security with some military security but not much. The ROE gets a little fuzzy when you are trying to keep a bazillion gallons of oil from leaking into the Euphrates River.
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:21 am to GetCocky11
quote:
Tajikistan is an authoritarian nearly one-party state where things like freedom of the press, public protests, and calls for inciting violence are severely restricted.
Tajikistan is just like all of its neighboring former soviet predominately islamic countries. Sure they have a one party gov. that severely restricts press, public protests, and calls for inciting violence, but as most often the case, that only applies to opposition and western ideals.
Also, these governments aren't doing a bunch out in the remote regions of the country. these are very poor areas filled with mostly tribal groups. Their borders aren't like the US. It's not like there is a "you're leaving Afghanistan, come back and see us soon" sign or a "you've entered Tajikistan, welcome" sign.
This post was edited on 8/16/18 at 9:24 am
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:25 am to statman34
Posted on 8/16/18 at 9:25 am to MWP
quote:
I hope that the company you work for provides a security detail for said colleagues.
India is wild but not private security wild. Unless if perhaps you are in Kashmir.
This post was edited on 8/16/18 at 9:26 am
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