A truck crashed into one of the Easter Island head statues and destroyed it

Just the lastest in a series of insults-added-to-injury

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Was it this guy behind the wheel?

Moai are not to be fucked with. Have people learned nothing from Gradius 3?

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That’s a shame. Anything historical getting busted is a shame. But calling it ‘sacred’ doesn’t help. Nothing is ‘sacred’, or perhaps everything is.

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The reports I’ve seen seem to be suggested accident or carelessness not deliberate vandalism- the parking brake failed, according to some reports it hadn’t worked for a while and the driver left the truck with a rock wedged under the wheel…

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A friend of mine was on Easter Island not long ago on business. He said there are toppled Moai all over the place.

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