From an old joke book I found in my desk drawer:
Q: How do you stop a charging elephant?
A: Take away his credit cards
I'll pause whilst you compose yourself. Did I mention that the joke is from the "elephant jokes" section of the book...
It shouldn't come as any surprise, especially to anyone who has done even a modest bit of travelling...tourists can be really stupid (also rude, but that's a post for another day).
Just in the last few weeks we've gotten stories about folks who've chipped off pieces of ancient sites for a souvenir, others who've attempted to carve their initials into the Roman Colliseum, and, of course, tourists w