{"id":280241,"date":"2015-06-12T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/british-woman-facing-imprisonment-for-causing-an-earthquake-after-she-upset-mountain-gods-by-going-unclad-photos\/"},"modified":"2015-06-12T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T08:08:00","slug":"british-woman-facing-imprisonment-for-causing-an-earthquake-after-she-upset-mountain-gods-by-going-unclad-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/06\/12\/british-woman-facing-imprisonment-for-causing-an-earthquake-after-she-upset-mountain-gods-by-going-unclad-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"British Woman Facing Imprisonment For Causing An Earthquake After She Upset Mountain Gods By Going Unclad [PHOTOS]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationng.com\/2015\/06\/british-woman-facing-imprisonment-for-upsetting-mountain-gods-with-her-uncladness-causing-an-earthquake-photos.html\/10-69\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-297859\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-297859\" src=\"http:\/\/www.informationng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1011.jpg\" alt=\"10\" width=\"564\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A British woman has been arrested in Malaysia for allegedly posing unclad on top of a sacred mountain and upsetting mountain gods, causing a 5.9 magnitude earthquake on the mountain last Friday June 5 which killed 18 people. Eleanor Hawkins is being held with four other Westerners while they are investigated for indecent behaviour. The five face possible prison sentences. How do you blame an earthquake on someone\u2019s indecency? Some things you hear eh\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Metro UK reports<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>They are believed to be part of a group of 10 people who stri*ped unclad before taking photos at the peak of Mount Kinabalu on May 30 \u2013 an act which a senior minister in Malaysia has blamed for causing an earthquake that killed 18 climbers last week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Miss Hawkins, a 23-year-old Southampton University graduate from Derby, was detained on Tuesday at Tawau airport as she was flying from the island of Borneo to the capital, Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"31\">Her father, Timothy Hawkins said\u00a0last night: \u2018We spoke to her this morning. She\u2019s okay, she\u2019s very scared, she\u2019s very upset. She\u2019s been arrested. It\u2019s not a situation she\u2019s been in before so it\u2019s not good.<br \/>\u2018We\u2019ve talked to the consulate and arranged a lawyer.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hawkins, who runs a mechanical engineering business, said his daughter is \u2018obviously in the photos\u2019 but he did not want the situation to be \u2018blown out of all proportion\u2019.<br \/>\u2018It\u2019s fair enough to charge for the misdemeanour committed,\u2019 he said. \u2018What we don\u2019t want is her lumbered with further charges.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>After a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit the 13,400ft-high mountain on Friday, Sabah deputy chief minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan blamed the tragedy on the tourists for showing \u2018disrespect to the sacred mountain\u2019 by posing unclad at the peak.<\/p>\n<p>He has said a special ritual will be conducted to \u2018appease the mountain spirit\u2019 after 18 people were killed in the disaster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: Metro UK<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A British woman has been arrested in Malaysia for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}