This sign can be seen all over Haida Gwaii, along with “Danger of bear attack” signs.
I can see why it’s creepy: I mean, it’s a worn forest path leading down a dark trail, marked by a sign that a very real somebody just like ourselves seemingly just disappeared somewhere in there and never came back.
That’s crazy creepy! (And incredibly sad…)
That definitely gives me such " would I seriously regret going any farther? " Vibes…
You know, like that grim reaper sign by the entrance to underwater caves that’s basically like “NOTHING BUT A TERRIBLE DEATH AWAITS YOU HERE.” Yikes!
I’d probably head back to the car and find somewhere else a bit more trod to hike. Yeah, I’m a city slicker…lol
If I may leave this here to lighten the mood, it made me think of this. Lol
(Yeah I replied twice…the comments had two completely different themes lol)
I saw a similar sign out on a trail a few years back, near a fishing hole just below some rocky rapids/falls. If I had to guess the missing kid probably was at the slippery rocky ledge overlooking the top of the rapids, lost his footing and fell into the churn, and lights out.
The sign had a change of clothes, bottled water and some granola bars in a ziplock bag. You could tell the sign and supplies had been there for a while.
I think about that sign whenever I get the urge to try something risky out in the wilderness
Is interpretive hiking something like interpretive dance?
“Difficulty: Easy to Moderate”
But also you might get eaten.
I assumed it was just going to be a Trump yard sign.
She looks way too old for Trump to have taken her
Sad (because realistically she is dead) but not really creepy. If you dont wanna get nom nommed by a bear then maybe dont go to a forest that says “DANGER Bear in Area”.
Unless of course those signs were put up after, for that very reason.
That is a valid possibilty true.
Wow, I hate that victim blaming thought process. If you don’t want to get run over by a car, you shouldn’t have left your house. If you don’t want to get rped, you shouldn’t have gone out into the world where rpists are.
Edit: my attempts to soft censor to avoid triggering have resulted in some interesting formatting
We are allowed to spell words out here… Your comment isn’t being monotized, the advertisers can’t hurt you.
It’s more about not triggering someone
I’m confused. Does sensoring the word rape or rapist prevent a triggering event? I seriously doubt that removing a letter makes any measurable difference. If anything, I feel like it would make things harder for rape victims trying to avoid reading about rape in some fashion. If they were to filter content by ‘rape’ or ‘rapist’, rpe and rpist would slip through the filters.
Just something a victim passed on to me, afterwards the word triggered her. It’s a very small thing to do.
Fair enough. I’m not arguing. Just genuinely confuses me, but I can’t put myself in that frame of mind so I’ll take your word for it. I can’t say that I’ll self censor in that manner because I think there’s inherant value in not ‘shying away’ from calling it what it is. But I can say at least I learned from the other side of the fence.
Lemmy operates more on Tumblr rules where you write out the word and people who don’t want to see it have already filtered it out in their settings. I think shorthand SA would have been fine. Hexbear rules would have you wrap the whole thing in a CW:SA spoiler and use SA in the body, which works. There’s no perfect solution. Your comment looks especially bad because your asterisks made a block of text italic (if that happens you should put a
\before them like this\*).There was a whole thing in the Tumblrsphere apparently about zoomers, used to self-censoring from years elsewhere, bypassing the filters and reaching people who don’t like want to see that stuff, by using increasingly arcane or goofy replacements. The genie is out of the bottle now on that, and it’s just part of online communication now, but it’s interesting how we moved backwards on this.
Personally I think making readers guess the letter a in the word won’t make a difference. But if this makes you feel like you really made the world a better place for assault victims then knock yourself out.
That was both informative and condescending. Thanks, I guess?
Ah yes the preventable or malicious actions of humans are totally equatable with literal wild animals existing in their habitat. Those things you list happen while people go about their normal every day lives, you cant avoid them as long as you want to participate in society. To get killed by a bear in this forest you need to actively decide to go there and disregard the warnings. If you die there you are 100% responsible for your own death and maybe even that of the bear that may need to be put down because of your idiotic intrusion into its territory.
Humans are literally animals. To get run over by a car, you need to go out to their natural habitat, roads.
Wage slave, stay in your natural habitat of an urban hellscape please. Accumulate capital for the greater good.
Danger! You are leaving your comfort zone! Danger! Go back to your natural habitat!
Danger! Discovered non-average bahaviour of wage slave 35462C3! Danger!
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