Maria Puente

USA TODAY

Justin Bieber's latest boo-boo in Latin America could be a lesson to remember for all: Stay off the ancient ruins.

After the Canadian pop star's latest display of either a) cluelessness or b) disrespectful behavior, Bieber was booted Thursday from one of Mexico's premier archaeological sites, the ancient city of Tulum on the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, according to the Associated Press and British and Mexican media reports.

His mistake: He was climbing around in the architectural ruins, despite signs forbidding it and despite warnings from security guards.

Maybe he didn't understand enough Spanish but after first getting down, he clambered around in the ruins again, the reports said. Bad move.

An argument ensued. The guards called police, but by the time the cops showed up, the argument was over and Bieber and his party were escorted from the site, according to what local reporters were told by Adriana Velázquez of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, which oversees the country's rich collection of pre-Columbian archaeological and historical sites.

Bieber has been on vacation with friends for the past week on the Yucatan Peninsula, as his Instagram page has shown. He's been snorkeling, golfing, playing with dolphins and generally having a great time hanging out on some of the Yucatan's prized beaches.

Tulum is one of the most popular sites for tourists thanks to its location just down the eastern coast of the Yucatan from Cancun. The ruins of the 800-year-old Maya walled city are both haunting and spectacular, with a spectacular view of the Caribbean.

But it's not impervious to the ravages of time and the jungle, so best not to touch. In fact, Mexico generally bars climbing at its archaeological sites, with a major exception being the pyramids of Teotihuacán 30 miles north of Mexico City.

It didn't help that Bieber has stumbled before while on tour in Latin America in 2013.

In Mexico, he tweeted at one point that he met with the president, even though he hadn't.

In Argentina, he was accused of offending by dragging the national flag around on stage and had to tweet apologies. He also ticked off fans by quitting a concert after less than an hour because he got food poisoning.

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A photographer accused Bieber of ordering his bodyguards to attack him outside a Buenos Aires hotel, and in 2015, an Argentine judge issued a warrant for the Bieb because he failed to respond to a summons for the case.

In Brazil, he walked off stage after someone threw a plastic bottle at him, and was accused of defacing a public building with graffiti.

Still, Bieber recently went far to redeem himself in many eyes when he urged his fans in Britain to support a local choir's Christmas single, instead of his own single, in the annual national song competition, to raise money for charity.

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