Prioritizing social media fame over safety often leads to frequent dangerous incidents and heroic rescues. Hawaii travel influencers and adventurers on notice.
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Prioritizing social media fame over safety often leads to frequent dangerous incidents and heroic rescues. Hawaii travel influencers and adventurers on notice.
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Parents, Are you proud of raising idiots! This all stems from allowing social media while they should be living a family life and studying. This is what happens when parents let their children raise the adults. Parents, be parents. Yes, you can control what happens. They can not get electronics unless you provide the cash to buy them. If they can not learn that there is more to life while in a family home, they are going to turn to social media in hopes to receive the likes and love. And this as you know, does not end well. Grow Up Parents. Dont have kids. Raise your Kids if you have them!
I have seen tourist climb over walls and railing at Waimea Valley.
We need to start prosecuting these people in a meaningful way. My relative living very near the Haiku stairs is afraid to even let her dog out early in the morning because of trespassers…
Best Regards
Rescue folks should not respond as soon as they find out that this is some influencer nonsense!
I am a citizen of a mainland state, but have visited Hawaii annually for more than 25 years. I’ve seen all the interesting vistas, and done a few of the interesting hikes on Kauai and the Big Island.
I would fully support a law in Hawaii that states something like: ‘If you engage in an activity that is prohibited, or against the rules of good citizenry, and as a result require a rescue, you are responsible for All the costs of your recovery’.
It is unfair to Hawaii taxpayers and the health/welfare of rescuers to have to support the cost and danger created by those who practice stupid activities for their own ego or financial benefit (influencers, I Think they are called!!)
It’s not just about safety of the humans, they are putting wildlife and the land in danger as well. I personally think social media should just be banned. People would have to get real jobs and the beautiful local places will once again go back to not being trampled on; the animals (like the honu) will be able to rest in peace on the beaches; and there will be less people getting hurt just to find the 5second instagramable moment that someone online took a cool photo at. Social media is dumbing down society.
I hate Instagram. I think its done more damage to nature, tourism and society as a whole than anything else I can think of. I refuse to look at it or support it in any way.
The fact that people are willing to die to get that Instagram post speaks volumes to the shallowness of the users of that service.
“Never underestimate the stupidity of truly stupid people” Yes, I own Every bit of that…
Best Regards,,,
Never under estimate the power of stupidity
I refuse to follow influencers. I won’t even read their blogs and if I run into a video of there I refuse to repost it. I tell my kids that these acts are not worth the money in return. Same for internets that post all actions – they chose to live that way with little privacy. I don’t like to hear them complain of how hard and challenging their kinds are. They made those choices. No job is worth the price of one’s health and life – this really only applies to one of you appreciate/like your life. I like mine. It’s not perfect, it’s not easy but it’s still worth having. I day no thank you. I wish more people would stop following influencers and praising them. Influencers in today’s world are the old “Oh, I need to do as the Jones!” No thank you.
It’s sad they died but this feels like Darwinism here. Just abjectly stupid.
Choices have consequences and those that choose poorly deserve whatever happens to them plain and simple. My only concerns are for those responders that have to risk their own lives to try to get the idiots to safety. It is way past time for those that trespass just because they can and get in trouble they need to be billed for the full costs of whatever it takes to get them to safety. Or better yet, let them just figure it out on their own.
Easy fix: stop following these idiots, who, as you yourself note, endanger their lives and the lives of rescuers. No followers = no influence. It is that simple.