Two teens carve into 5,000-year-old rock carving, just trying to help

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Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/08/03/two-teens-carve-into-5000-yea.html
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Well, at least they boys forward. That’s the important part.

EDIT: Now that the copy is fixed, my comment makes me look like a dick, but in retrospect, my comment WAS kind of dickish, so it all worked out.

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Dear amateur art restorers:

STAHP!!!

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Wonder if they’d consider re-carving it a few inches to the left. I imagine the right guy or gal could do it indistinguishably from the original.

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Do they not post signs around these landmarks? Something along the lines of “Don’t mess up the 5,000 artifacts, Jackass!”

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They boys accidentally the whole forward.

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Carving ski graffiti? Way to be a cliché, Norway!

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Well, at least 5,000 years from now (hypothetically), people will be able to see the carvings of these boys.

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Just punishment: make the boys ski it off.

It’s the Norwegian way.

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Design students, the teens were quoted as saying, “It really needed to pop for the viewer”

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My first thought exactly. Maybe we could build a museum of improved arts?

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Here, lemme copy’n’paste and heavily edit the text - with apologies to LurkingGrue:

thaumatechnicia: There might have been twenty times that week that young people out having fun or getting some exercise by walking around failed in their corporate-shaped-duty as mindless automatons.

Oh, but the twenty-first time, some young people were able to achieve self-actualization by thinking that they were able to make things better despite knowing nothing about archeology, and especially by not respecting frickin’ obvious boundaries. Too bad there wasn’t a wall somewhere owned by someone else that they could tag, or some rock formations they could topple.

Again, my apologies, LurkingGrue.

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That is one seriously old archaeologist.

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Where would Jesus ski?

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The Sea of Galilee?

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And how do we know it wasn’t due for its 1000 year touch up?

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So are you uh…approving or disapproving? I really can’t tell from your comment…

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I’m reminded of the relatively loud admonition to be silent in the Montserrat Abbey Basilica. Two signs marked “SILENCI” (or “SILENCIO?”) would alternately click on-and-off, quite audibly.

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The first one coulda been some dopey kid with terrible drawing skills ruining the village’s favorite rock.

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