By travellingsmarter
A Canadian man intent on sort of impressing (maybe) 30 people with a photo of him jumping into large surf has died in Jecife, Brazil.
The man was washed out to sea after posing for the Gram in front of a monster wave. The man ignored advice from locals, particularly one restaurant owner, whose restaurant the man had parked in front of.
“It was pretty obvious he was going to die. He still owes me for parking.”
Mr Ma Higiene, restauranter and car park monopoly in these ere parts
The deceased, Peter S Maple, of Ontario, had been travelling through been uploading travel videos that could be best described as marginally interesting to 30% of his direct family members.
The trip was paid for through an NFT repo business he had set up, after a Guatemalan bank refused to return the original jpeg of Mr Maple’s NFT, being a penguin completing a NY Times crossword, smoking a green pipe.
Intent on boosting his Insta numbers, Mr Maple, had been taking riskier photos and videos, with increasingly diminishing returns.
Maple had been heard telling his mother in a live blog from a cafe in Rio that “no one is paying any attention any more. Need to add some crackle and pop.”
Locals who witnessed the wave knocking Maple into the ocean said he seemed calm and claimed he had “no regrets. YOLO” as he was being dragged out to sea, blissfully unaware that no one could upload the actual photo, without his Insta password.
A local seafood buffet restauranter, who also has a monopoly over foreigners parking their car anywhere along the beach. Mr Ma Higiene was annoyed that Maple took such a major risk, when he owed Mr Higiene around 4 riyal ($1.20) for parking fees.
“No,” Mr Higiene answered when asked if he Maple was aware of the debt.
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