A Trucker Went Off-Roading on the 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines

:eek:

:mad:

Hmmm. Looks like we don’t have a “thankfully” emoji.

How bad is it? Well, you can see the video and pictures at the links above, but if you want words and numbers:

For thousands of years they were fine, and then some fucking idiot jackass messes them up forever. Way to go, jackass.

I wonder what his BAC level was.

Maybe he was on a special mission.

I fucking love that movie.

Did the trucker run over the mentioned links too?

Let’s see, we’ve got yahoos knocking over hoodoos in Goblin Valley, people instagramming pics of their graffiti in various National Parks, and guys joyriding across The Racetrack and the Nazca Lines. Oh yeah, there was the dude who made fires at the base of Delicate Arch that left burn marks. I’d like to take this opportunity to pit them all. Fuckers.

I read somewhere that his reason for going off-road was in order to avoid the toll booth.

Instead of “Nazca” he thought it said “Nascar”.

“Chariots of the Clods?”

Why, Jesus, why?

Me too, brother. :slight_smile:

Alink.

You probably won’t like to learn that the former Bear’s Ears National Monument is being turned into an ATV park.

Ok, that was funny.

Oh, there’s links in the OP; there are. Sometimes I just like to try and be subtle and clever, like when I’ve got a subject matter like this one: truck runs over huge petroglyphs. <wink wink nudge>

Well done!

I never even knew of these until now. Very cool!

To clarify: The Nazca lines are cool. The driving through them is the opposite.

Would it make sense to repair them, or would that be considered further degredation?

Could they be repaired without leaving further tracks?

I didn’t realize they were just carvings in the dirt. I thought they were rocks laid in a pattern. How did they last for a thousand years? Does it never rain there?

They’re in the rainshadow of the Andes, same as Atacama, so it’s very, very arid.

I was under the same impression. I’m sure I read an article that said the same thing. Strange.