It may not be the actual event that bothers people, but the mindset of the idiots who did it. We have more and more of these fuckwits around these days ruining things just out of their own sheer self-indulgence.
There was a reason back in the day when we encouraged some kids to go outside after supper, play in the dark, wearing dark clothes, on a busy unlit street. Now they are living past that age, doing this sort of crap, and eventually reproducing. Make Zika will be the new polio and catch a crop of them early.
As am I. I absolutely hate people who feel that barriers aren’t meant for them (see rants in other threads). But I think that the press steps across the line of public service and into the realm of rabble rousing a little too often.
This isn’t the most rational thought, but I actually would put her above the Duckbill Assholes and the Goblin Valley Morons.
Stupid? Yes.
Strung out on drugs? Yes.
Destroyed an irreplaceable natural wonder? Yes.
Did it with malicious intent? No.
I believe intent does matter to a point. She deserves her punishment. The jerks who intentionally destroyed natural features because they “knew better” then experts or were looking for revenge (against a rock that apparently outsmarted their friend and broke his leg,) deserve worse.
I don’t think they deserve death threats or years in prison, but they do need LOTS of community service to help clean up the natural features that are left after their destruction of two.
We have You Tube and social media to thank for this, and a generation earlier, “America’s Funniest Home Videos” (and yes, they would have rejected things like this).
I shudder to think of some of the things I might have done if there had been a You Tube when I was a teenager. :eek:
Yeah, gosh, someone could dynamite Yosemite’s Half Dome, and that’d be perfectly okay, because, y’know, just a rock. Don’t let the British know that Gibraltar is at risk.
I guess I can knock down Mexican Hat, in New Mexico, and blow up Ship Rock, because natural features aren’t important to some odious yahoo on the internet.
Jesus, is the stupid really that strong in a living human being? How does he know when to breathe in and when to breathe out?
In the grand scheme of things, it’s just a rock. But the act of destroying it just represents such an odious sense of self-entitlement. Here was some nice feature of the natural landscape, and people who came by could see it and enjoy it, as thousands had done before and thousands more would do in the future. But that wasn’t enough for one group of assholes who thought a few seconds of brainless fun for them was worth more than the peace and satisfaction of everyone else.
There is also the issue of how tourism will be affected, the vandals do ignore that some items are hard to quantify; the loss of an intersting feature, can affect the livelehood of people that work in or around the park.
Like it happened in the New Hampshire park that had the Old Man on the Mountain formation. Once it fell down there was a very significant loss of trourism revenue.
If I came into your house and stole your laptop, I assume you’d be outraged and seek a remedy, even if I left you a note reminding you of other more important things than the theft of one laptop.
If I am mistaken, then perhaps you could PM me your address.
I don’t give a good shit about any of those places. Or a bad shit, really. Who cares? Rocks! That’s what they are. You know there are children that live in trash dumps around the world, don’t you? And you are concerned about fucking rocks? Moron.
I fail to see the parallel between a fucking rock and a personally owned item of mine. However, I would lament the loss of the photos on my laptop, so thanks, I’ll remember to back them up tonight when I get home.
Other than that, no I wouldn’t be that concerned about it. But I’m not gonna make it easy for you
You said you don’t care about some mentioned great places; from this and your non sequitur about poor children I infer that you don’t care about any places.
People have to live on this planet. If you don’t care about the planet’s parts and places, you don’t care about people, either.
