This may be the stupidest thing on the planet right now:  Malaysia has barred two Canadian brothers from leaving the country, accusing them of causing the earthquake on Mount Kinabalu – through nudity.  They’re not under arrest, but they’re not able to go back to Canada either.

“Canadian consular officials in Malaysia are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information and are providing consular assistance to the Canadian citizens as required,” said Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Nicolas Doire in a statement.

It’s not clear if the men were actually part of a group of tourists who stripped down for a photo on the mountain last week that preceded Friday’s magnitude-5.9 temblor that killed 16 people.  Few people would have known about it, had the geniuses not had the temerity to post it on the Facebook page of Malaysia’s national parks.  But post it they did, and that picture inspired some visceral reactions from Malaysians.

“You did not merely offend, but you spat, and you stomped on our faces,” wrote one woman in a viral social media post.  “But most insultingly, you mocked our heritage.  You defiled Aki so proudly.  And now, as of today, she is forever deformed.  Disfigured,” she added.  “Aki” is the local name for Mount Kinabalu which means the “the revered place of the dead.”

I’d like to believe that Malaysian officials couldn’t possibly believe the lowest possible level of superstition, and really don’t want to be the laughing stocks of the entire planet.