[ek_hornbeck]

Seems like these vandalizing swine got away with little more than a slap on the wrist. It's a shame that Alberto Fujimori no longer runs Peru, he would have had them beaten half to death for their actions.

I'm sure these tourists have made their home nations (Brazil, Argentina, and France) so proud.

[Jonty30]

Idiots. These people never think about anything beyond themselves.

[hanamizu]

I just can’t imagine that a Peruvian prison would be a place where I’d like to stay. I don’t think I’d even be a little tempted to mess with their stuff.

[Rummyfan]

They were also suspected of defecating inside the 600-year-old temple, an important edifice in the Inca sanctuary.

Nice, classy people.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Tie them down and cut the heart out, same as always.

[lizma2]

” defecating inside the 600-year-old temple”

Why has defecating in public becoming so popular???

I don’t get this.

[kaehurowing]

Sounds like the “homeless.”

[LonePalm]

FWIW - My grandfather was friends with Hiram Bingham III and served as anthropologist and medical doctor for his 1915 expedition to Machu Picchu. We have most of the photographs he took including a carefully done panorama looking down on the Urubamba River as it flows around the base of the mountain Machu Picchu.

WWG1WGA

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[TigersEye]

The kid who damaged a wall and a floor might spend four years in a Peruvian prison. I wouldn’t call that a slap on the wrist. It might be a life sentence.

[lodi90]

They were also suspected of defecating inside the 600-year-old temple, an important edifice in the Inca sanctuary.

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Are they from San Francisco by chance?

[Larry Lucido]

Now we know why Pennypacker changed his mind.

[livius]

No Americans. These people sound like a bunch of semi-hippie mostly Latin American flakes going on the “spiritual woo woos” tour of native sites. They’re probably looking for the Pachamama.

[DoughtyOne]

Honestly, I would have supported a good long caning.

Then I’d have given them a straw and told them to clean it up or get more of the same.

That’s a valuable site to the world. Who the hell pulls that sort of routine?

I’m not Peruvian, but that angers me.

[Robert DeLong]

Machu Picchu

[sockmonkey]

The group, which includes a French woman, two Brazilians, two Argentines and a Chilean, were condemned for their alleged “crime against cultural heritage” committed at the UNESCO World Heritage Site

They probably met on some social media poop group. Morons.

[moovova]

I have a suggestion. Nothing wrong with the old ways.

[Savage Beast]

"They were also suspected of defecating inside the 600-year-old temple"

They're from San Francisco?

[a fool in paradise]

Didn’t a Peruvian beer company break an ancient clock whilst shooting a tv commercial on location there about a decade and a half ago?

[samtheman]

They definitely deserved jail time.