Man flips out on tourists smoking at ski resort: Its not polite!

Wild footage has emerged of a Japanese man engaging in a screaming match with a pair of Australian tourists for smoking on a ski field.The viral GoPro clip shows the snowboarder aggressively approaching a woman seen holding a cigarette and a can of beer at a ski resort.“Don’t smoke, it’s not polite!” he yells, as she tells him “sorry.”“Sorry? What sorry?!” the man screams.The woman reacts indignantly, yelling back, “I beg your pardon! I did not know! Don’t yell!”Her companion then steps in, telling the man, “Don’t yell at her, she didn’t know.”“Didn’t know?!” the Japanese man exclaims.“No, it’s her first time,” the Australian replies.The snowboarder calls them “a–holes” as he begins to walk away, prompting the woman to mutter “f–king crazy, man.”That sets off the snowboarder, who storms back screaming, “What?! What?!”The man then steps in again warning, “You’re going to touch her I’ll knock you out.You don’t talk to women like that.”“You don’t smoke,” the Japanese man insists.“Yeah you don’t talk to women like that either, mate,” the Australian replies.“A–holes,” the snowboarder says again as he walks off.Smoking is banned in many public spaces in Japan and is generally frowned upon outdoors, while indoor smoking is more common, often in designated rooms.It wasn’t immediately clear when the incident took place, but the footage has gone viral on social media with more than 13 million views on X and thousands of comments on Reddit.“As an Australian who’s lived in Japan for years, the locals get pretty sick of our s–t when we break rules and act rudely,” one Reddit user wrote.“There are no smoking signs all over Japan! She knew what she was doing,” another claimed.A third commented, “I’m 99 percent sure this is the Oakley lookout at the Happo One Resort in Hakuba.

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