Two people busted for using excavator to dig shortcut through the Great Wall of China

[pesco]

Originally published at: Two people busted for using excavator to dig shortcut through the Great Wall of China | Boing Boing

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[Legion]

Man, Mulan is gonna be SO PISSED

[Jesse13927]

Well, now it’s the Good Wall of China.

If these shenanigans continue, next it’ll be the Okay Wall of China.

[anon81034786]

[teknocholer]

[Brainspore]

“This is the chance we’ve been waiting for, boys! Now let’s RIDE!”

[knoxblox]

They needed a shortcut to school.

[jerwin]

Does this happen a lot? Or did medieval bishops harvest their own fucking stone instead of using the local Roman infrastructure as a glorified quarry?

[RickMycroft]

I know how this goes. They run the local HOA, and have forged documents which say that they own the property. /s

[Otherbrother]

@jerwin

Does this happen a lot? Or did medieval bishops harvest their own fucking stone instead of using the local Roman infrastructure as a glorified quarry?

From the photos I’m seeing this section of the wall doesn’t look like the famous and iconic Ming Dynasty section that’s made of stone. Different parts were built with whatever local building materials were available, and this site looks like it might have been one of the areas that used rammed earth rather than stone. Which helps explain why the damage is being described as “irreparable,” since stone bricks could potentially be re-stacked.

[Grey_Devil]

Yeah i was thinking the same. Some of the more remote sections of the wall that are also near some plains were built in a less durable way and most of these sections have mostly fallen apart entirely on their own, so if its one these parts of the wall then it’s pretty much done for. I wonder what the punishment for this would look like

[jerwin]

Much of the Great Wall has been “restored” I’m not sure what that does to the archeological prospects.

Rebuilding the Great Wall of China

[Brainspore]

@Grey_Devil

I wonder what the punishment for this would look like

According to a 2008 documentary on the subject the traditional punishment is for the enemies of the Emperor to be buried beneath the wall itself.

[Otherbrother]

@Grey_Devil

Some of the more remote sections of the wall that are also near some plains were built in a less durable way and most of these sections have mostly fallen apart entirely on their own

I hear that those sections that were built of local materials in the far North are especially threatened.

[Grey_Devil]

[lastchance]

[bashful]

I have heard that the Chinese people favor initiative. Was that wrong? /s

[Mindysan33]

[Shuck]

I wonder if they even knew what it was - given the symbolic nature of the wall, people would surely be aware that the government would crack down harshly on anyone damaging it, but as this section doesn’t appear to be anything more than a long mound of earth (with existing gaps), you’d have to be explicitly told what it was to make the connection to the famous sections. They obviously knew it was some sort of archeological site, though.

[Loozrboy]

Fucking Mongolians!