Posted on 10/19/2013 7:38:13 AM PDT by JoeProBono
CASTLE DALE, Utah, - Authorities in Utah said a trio of Boy Scout leaders may face felony charges for destroying an ancient rock formation at a state park.
Utah State Parks officials said they are exploring potential charges against the three men, who posted a Facebook video of themselves knocking over one of Goblin Valley State Park's rock formations, known as "goblins," which was millions of years old, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Friday.
"Some little kid was about ready to walk down here and die and Glenn saved his life by getting the boulder out of the way," the cameraman is heard saying. "So it's all about saving lives here at Goblin Valley."
Glenn Taylor said he was the man who pushed over the rock formation while fellow scout leaders and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints youth leaders Dave Hall and Dylan Taylor watched.
Taylor said he thought he was doing a "civic service" by knocking over the formation after seeing a family walking near it.
"I put my hand on a rock and it moved," he said. "While we were sitting right there we thought, 'Man if this rock falls it'll kill them.' I didn't have to push hard."
Taylor said he now believes he should have contacted a ranger instead of knocking over the formation.
the rock was loose
big deal
this is a trumped piece of garbage to impugn the Scouts and everybody should know it
Liars
Did you watch the video?
These three men have no business being in the scouts!
Eagle Scout troop 325
Sorry. You can’t make that piece of lard sound anything but subhuman anyway.
These are the new scouts.
It wasn’t his to knock over.
You go into a national park, you go in with the knowledge that you can be fined for messing with the scenery.
The gays are probably making a big deal out of it because they look like a straight troop with a straight Scout leader. Can’t have that. On the other hand I see potential for a new reality series - Redneck Scouting Adventures
And if you listen to what this retard is saying, you get that he’s very clear that he destroyed a landmark, and that it was intended.
They “redesigned” goblin valley.
Probably Democrats, AND homos.
Agreed.
Yet the same Leftist clamoring the loudest for the "head of the Baptist", don't even understand the immorality of taking forceps to the head of a one minute from birth child and sucking out its brain.
The guy is still an idiot for pushing it over.
The story is overblown.
“leave no trace” is a basic scouting axiom. This was idiocy.
Yes, they are.
Scouts who pull this kind of ignorant crap shouldn’t be Scouts at all. If you haven’t the respect for others that would prevent such vandalism, they must be a bunch of gay fags looking to diddle kiddies.
Maybe for their next act of heroism, they can bulldoze the Grand Canyon (you know, to keep children from falling in).
WTF - watch the video, these guys are not wearing “Boy Scout” uniforms; there are no kids anywhere in the pictures; and where do they see Church campers.
What we have is a video of some buffoons stupid enough to video themselves vandalizing a state park.
We also have a “reporter” who viewed the video and took the opportunity to tarnish upstanding organization because said buffoons were members at sometime. This is NOT reporting, its vindictive liberals trashing the Backbone of America. If these guys were Scout Leaders in there teens, then left the Scouts and joined a Liberal organization like ACORN for the last 10 years; the printed story would not change.
No need to “trump up” anything to impugn that organization of late.
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