GOVERNMENT!!
Posted on 06/23/2021 7:50:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Hundreds of people attended the summer solstice at Stonehenge despite official advice asking them not to travel to the site in line with Covid restrictions.
As a result English Heritage pulled a live feed of the sunrise at the neolithic monument in Wiltshire at 04:52 BST due to safety concerns.
People were seen climbing over a low fence to access the stones.
Wiltshire Police said the event was peaceful but added the number of people at nearby Avebury had caused issues.
More than 200,000 people from around the world tuned in to the live stream for the solstice but ended up watching pre-recorded footage of the stones until the feed returned at around 05:00 BST, showing largely cloudy skies.
Video from the scene showed about a hundred people inside the stone circle and a banner reading "Standing for Stonehenge".
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English Heritage did not elaborate on how the attendance of people at the site prevented them from showing a live feed of the sunrise.
Normally, more than 10,000 people would gather to watch the sun rise over the stones on the longest day of the year.
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They should have heeded the warnings. Every one of the people responsible for creating those stone circles is dead, and nobody seems to know how they died
No one knows who the druids were. Or what they were doing. But their legacy remains: hewn into the living rock of Stongehenge...
Good for them...
I thought there were no men left in England..
Heart of oak are our ships, heart of oak are our men;
We always are ready, steady, boys, steady!
We’ll fight and we’ll conquer again and again.
Hope the stones weren’t trampled by midgets.
Neo pagan earth worshippers have their mystical needs expressed with rituals.
In the fall of 1972 my family spent two weeks in England, and we visited Stonehenge. At that time you could walk right up to the pillars and touch them, like in European Vacation, except you couldn't drive up to them.
Now I understand you aren't allowed to get near the stones.
:-)
25 years ago, I had taken early retirement, and we went to the Devon/Cornwall area for 10 days to see some ancestor history and that day feeling.
On the way back to London, we pulled into the parking lot of Stonehenge. It was on the summer solstice, and the day started being overcast, chilly and damp. By the time we left it was clearing up and a lot of people were there.
My wife and I felt the same feeling of some type of weird connection.
I had a similar feeling/connection where the Mayflower left
Plymouth, England to come over here. I had adult ancestors on that ship and one was born on the trip over here.
Sorry but I’m of the age when someone mentions Stonehenge, my thoughts automatically go to “This Is Spinal Tap”.
Who are never going to play bloody Stonehenge again! :)
Who knows? Maybe a couple of dozen gangbangers and drive-by shooters from Chicago were among the crowd?
Regards,
Stupid pagans
We will worship like the Druids,
Dancing naked in the woods,
Drinking strange fermented fluids,
And it's good enough for me!
CHORUS: Give me that old time religion,
Give me that old time religion,
Give me that old time religion,
'Cause it's good enough for me!
Well, the stones are only 18" tall, so someone might trip over them.
“English Heritage did not elaborate on how the attendance of people at the site prevented them from showing a live feed of the sunrise.”
And they never will.
L
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