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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/american-hikers-topple-200...

Seems almost psrt of the human condition to degrade the oddities of our environment... shame that future generations won't get the awe and wonder of seeing such bizarre antiques in nature. Do you think their defence of "its a safety hazard" stands? I think that was almost an after thought in this case. I hope the judge see's this too and acts accordingly. I just don't see how we'll stop trundling idiots in 15 years time, or 50... depressing really. But not as depressing as Australia wanting to mine coal from the Great Barrier reef, but that's another issue entirely...

In reply to dr_botnik: Absolute cretins, it's impossible to watch that video without hoping the boulder will land on his foot.

In reply to dr_botnik: some things in life can never ever be taken back or fixed. This is one example.

In reply to dr_botnik:

Whilst I have some sympathy with all the shock horror merchants, in reality, how many more storms would the rock have lasted. It didn't seem difficult to push over.

Yes they were a bunch of cocks but this is a bit like the geological equivalent of picking an apple before it falls to the ground.

In reply to dr_botnik: Morons. Sometimes, just sometimes, I don't think that man deserves this planet.

In reply to Alan Breck:

Agreed, what he deserved was the same unfortunate fate as the idiot on YouTube who kicks through that concrete panelled wall and get his leg broken.

In reply to dr_botnik:

Good grief!! The rock is 200 million years old, not the formation. Lets not add geological inaccuracy to blatant vandalism

In reply to Giles Davis:

This one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ht43QmHc8Q&feature=youtube_gdata_playe...

In reply to dr_botnik: Just about sums up my experience and opinions of americans. Sad.

In reply to Giles Davis:

My thought exactly. F*cking morons.

Back off, they saved a kids life that day.

In reply to Shani:

A future Darwin award candidate...

In reply to dr_botnik: Sorry for the crap american link, its from reddit. http://www.kutv.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_7578.shtml

Turns out he "had filed a personal injury lawsuit against a woman and her father for injuries he says he suffered in a 2009 car crash."

In reply to dr_botnik: climbers topple 100 million year-old rock formation: youtube.com/watch?v=K0Tj2dWiXPk&

In reply to dr_botnik:

Hikers? They're so fat, that I suspect that they only waddled a few yards from their SUV... What a bunch of arseholes.

In reply to Clauso: that's almost as funny as dom joly chasing trolls..

In reply to dr_botnik:

To them though it's probably only 6000 years old so no big deal.

Anyone fancy rock tipping at Brimham tomorrow?

Only joking

In reply to thermal_t:

^^^^
Wot he said!

In reply to dr_botnik:

On the one Hand, people have always Revelled in tipping Logan stones etc, nothing New. That rocks balancing days were numbered anyway. Thats Erosion for you. That was much less Trundling than ive witnessed Climbers do to create routes. Not to mention stripping moss, Lichen destruction etc.

Lot of fuss about nothing.

On the Other Hand, the ObnoxiousTw*ts doing it make me puke into my pint

In reply to JIMBO:
bridestones would be better, there's one there that sways in the wind

In reply to DaveHK:

Nice.

In reply to jimtitt:

Or even 2000 years old like the juniper tree cut down by a famous climber last week.

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In reply to Enty:
Whats the story behind that?

In reply to Red Rover:

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2249896/Joe-Kinder-Ethan-Pringle-tr...

Pretty shocking really. Surprised it's not been mentioned on here yet.

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In reply to 3leggeddog:

I don't know. How many more storms would it have taken then?

In reply to Enty: Disappointing if true... ofcourse it could've been the case the tree would've fallen and hit a kid. So really, they're saving lives

In reply to paul walters:

Oh Jeeze. Really?

In reply to dr_botnik:

The "we prevented the rock falling and crushing a kid" (I paraphrase) argument is a load of bollox. It took 30 stone of moronic blubber, pushing with all his might to push the stone off. Shame it didn't land on his head.

In reply to Clauso:

That's what I thought but it turns out they were 'adventuring'.

"The three men, who were adventuring in the Goblin Valley State Park last weekend when they encountered the formations,...".

In reply to MeMeMe: and 'leading' a group of scouts..

In reply to teflonpete:

I'm all in favour of crushing the fat man's car, therefore preventing it from possibly running over a kid.

In reply to TryfAndy:


I think he should be trundled for safety reasons.

In reply to TryfAndy:

I like that! :0) Would have been absolute poetry if the stone had rolled down a hill and crushed his car.

In reply to teflonpete:

That it is. But it's been put forward on here from time to time to support some fairly gratuitous trundling.

In reply to dr_botnik: I'm not really sure what to think about the comments on here. One the one hand, it is clearly vandalism, but on the other hand, nature would have probably got around to doing the same sooner or later and we wouldn't have batted an eye lid.

In reply to dr_botnik:

So, er, anyway...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fontaibleau_bilboquet.JPG

;O)

In reply to deepsoup: Get that thing tumbled now OR KIDS WILL DIE