Oh, wait, I see GuanoLad thought of that first, several posts up-thread. Credit to him, then.
Amen. I saw two cow-tipping idiots in that video, not two concerned citizens ( who would still have been idiots if their story was true, just a slightly less noxious breed ).
It’s not the end of the world, but it still is a particularly shitty variety of vandalism and hyperbolic death threats aside they fully deserve all the internet scorn being heaped on them. Time in jail? Probably not. Community service? Sure. Hefty fine? Absolutely.
Did you know removing most occupied native bird nests in the U.S. can potentially cost you up to a $15,000 dollar fine and six months in prison? No reason rare geologic formations shouldn’t receive similar protections. After all that property they just vandalized belongs to all of us.
Thats what it’s been reduced to now. Before it was a much more unusual hoodoo in a State Park dedicated to its protection so it could be enjoyed by all of us.
I had to go wait on the bench there. Group W is where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after your special crime.
There were all kinds of mean nasty dudes there on the bench. There were mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers. Father Rapers! Right there on the bench with me. And the meanest, nastiest one of all, the meanest, nastiest father raper came up to me and said “What’d you get?”
I said “I didn’t get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the rock”
They should have explained they were just trying to protect the wildlife. Some innocent coyote trying to catch a roadrunner for dinner could have been flattened by that rock.
Wildlife laws are so ridiculously cockamamie. You can poach a bear in Sequoia National Park and get away with a $500 fine. But cut down (or even just trim) an oak tree in California and your ass is grass. They’re saying now that the Goblin Topplers may be looking at felony charges, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
Hoodoo?
You do.
Do what?
Look, I’m only human. You can’t expect me to resist forever.
Cite? (I tried looking myself.)
Whoa. Did you knock over a hoodoo or something?
Looks like it’s the L.A. area.
http://www.treepeople.org/are-there-special-laws-protect-oak-trees
As others have pointed out, your take on this issue is absurd beyond belief.
Good intentions? Just a rock? Boy Scouts? You can’t possibly be serious.
So it’s true, if a $2,000 equals “your ass is grass.”
How about $347,000? Also reduced on appeal, but people can and have been hauled into court over trimming oaks on their own property. Feed a bear in Sequoia NP and it’s a $50 fine. Poach said bear and you will likely get away with a fine less than $1000 if the magistrate is in an amiable mood. I know backcountry Rangers who have been on the job for 20+ years and have never arrested a poacher.
Here in Arkansas, not only do they take a dim view of poaching, they arrest a lot of them.
They will also confiscate your toys if you are going too fast or go past a sign, etc.
They are 99.99% good guys but they are on their own a lot with no backup or way to get backup so they tend to be right peckish if any asshattery comes into view.
So, we can’t put them in pillories in the public square because . . .?
If they’d had a few smart and sensible gay and atheist Scout leaders along on the trip, this might never have happened!
Give them a fine and make them pick up trash within the park system for 100 hours.
I say we put some ropes and clear dotted lines in these “wild” areas and prevent any more of this interaction nonsense. Someone could kick a rock that hadn’t been disturbed for a 100,000 years.
Remember folks, nature should never be more than a few miles away. It should be full of hiking trails and devoid of any obstructions on the paths.
Once the young 30 somethings get home from their cubicles they’re going to want to put on their $300 hiking boots and space-age GORE-TEX hiking jackets and get some much needed fresh air. I say we install railings every 300 feet with smartphone charging stations so that Facebook pics can be uploaded ASAP.
Someone might bone them and then they can’t be in the Scouts anymore.
Well, it is “just a rock”, in that this vandalism didn’t really hurt the ecosystem. The value of tis formation is pretty much purely in human aesthetics - it’s unusual for a rock to be in this position naturally, and as humans, we think that pretty cool. But it’s not like there’s an endangered species who can on longer reproduce, or find food, or whatever, because this rock’s no longer balanced precariously.
It’s a rock formation that the community thought was interesting enough that they made a park out of the area so people could come and see these formations for themselves. The community didn’t agree that the tubby twat in that video that he could knock one of these formations over.