If only they were employed by an oil company! Then they could destroy whatever parts of the landscape they wanted to without consequence.
Turns out that the schlub who pushed the rock over had filed a personal injury lawsuit in September for a back injury. This clusterf*ck of insanity courtesy of Southern Utah!
I see the media have even given him a nickname: Goblin Toppler. If that isnāt suggestive I donāt know what the heck isā¦
The one next to the weird knobbly one.
Step one for these stupes should be a permanent ban from any and all parks or reserves. The only publicly owned property they should be allowed in would be the courtroom where they hopefully pay the price for being asshats.
But people, you forget, HE ISNāT GAY! That was about the least gay thing possible! See, Boy Scouts of America is still protecting impressionable young minds from bad role models, like teh gay!
āHe does admit however that the tape may not play well if the case was
to go before a jury trialā
love the lawyerspeak for āyeah, weāre totally bonedā 
it might have been justice if the rock had gone over the opposite direction and crushed the fat goblin. (not that I wish anyone crushed by ancient boulders). Nature bats last.
This is the kind of thing that happens when parents are related.
Itās that one on the left that took 170M years to form.
Theyāre from Southern Utah, so itās safe to say they only thought it was 6,000 years old max.
That is one stupendously gorgeous picture. Instant desktop wallpaper. Who would look at that and think it needs to be rearranged?
Still (@everyone) ā¦ no jail time, no felony vandalism, no huge fine, no no no. Letās just ease off a little and try to increase the peace. Isnāt having the entire world think youāre a big fat fucking idiot punishment enough? (And isnāt there just a little bit of fat-hating going on?)
I think the chance heāll ever do this again is exactly zero. Heās in the middle of having a perspective-altering, consciousness-expanding experience.
The one behind the Rock Monster
I vote for feeling like an idiot and a felony. (I will, however, stop short of wishing the rock tipped in the other direction).
Yeah, Iām not terribly gung-ho about sending people to prison/fining them exorbitantly in general. The point of criminal law is to deter people- I think he and everyone else has been sufficiently deterred. Anywhere in the $5000 fine range is fair, and as someone who doesnāt accept āhe made me do itā as an excuse from a child, I say the other two donāt get punished.
Why stop short of wishing the rock tipped in the other direction?, there are numerous ugly/humorous/schadenfraede stories that bring out my inner ghoul. He just missed his Darwin Award.
OK, these guys definitely arenāt the sharpest tools in the shed. Having said that, who here, after reading the headline, thinks that rock existed in that state, (balanced so precariously that a guy could just push it over), for 170 million years? This is a case of journalists not understanding the quotes they print. Weathering and erosion are constant forces, not something that happened in antiquity. If that fat shlub had the strength, (even braced) to topple that rock, it was about to fall anyway. (5-10 years, tops, probably within 1-2 years.).
I know itās not going to be popular, but I actually think the guys were trying to fix what they saw as a dangerous situation.These guys know that kids canāt resist that kind of thing. Should they have called it to a rangerās attention instead? Yes. Were they acting out of pure vandalism, I donāt think so. Also, if a ranger had been notified, and decided it should come down, quietly and without video, would that make it alright?
Oh, you know, just a general lack of sociopathy.
