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Truck Driver Plows Over Peru's 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines, Leaving 'Deep Scars'
NPR ^ | January 31, 2018 | LAUREL WAMSLEY

Posted on 02/01/2018 12:56:47 PM PST by nickcarraway

A semitrailer driver ignored warning signs and drove over Peru's famous Nazca Lines on Saturday, causing significant damage to the UNESCO World Heritage site.

The driver, identified as 40-year-old Jainer Jesús Flores Vigo, was detained and released, according to newspaper Peru21.

The lines were scratched into the ground approximately 2,000 years ago and depict animals, plants, imaginary creatures and geometric figures miles long. Nazca's lines and geoglyphs stretch across an area of about 280 square miles.

A magistrate concluded that there wasn't sufficient evidence to indicate the driver acted with intent, Peru21 reports. Peru's public minister announced that Nazca's prosecutor's office was appealing the judge's decision. The ministry had sought nine months of preventive detention and a $1,550 fine while the investigation continues, according to the newspaper.

The rig left "deep scars" across a 50 meter by 100 meter (164 feet by 328 feet) area, the Culture Ministry said, affecting the surface of the ancient site and damaging three of the geoglyphs.

Argentine newspaper Clarín reports that the driver said he didn't know the area because he had never traveled there before and that he left the road because of a mechanical problem. The newspaper speculated that the driver actually drove off the Pan-American Highway to avoid paying a toll.

Greenpeace Apologizes For Stunt At Peru's Sacred Nazca Lines THE TWO-WAY Greenpeace Apologizes For Stunt At Peru's Sacred Nazca Lines UNESCO says the Nazca site is "the most outstanding group of geoglyphs anywhere in the world and are unmatched in its extent, magnitude, quantity, size, diversity and ancient tradition to any similar work in the world."

This isn't the first time people have damaged the site. In 2014, Greenpeace activists left footprints as they planted a message there in advance of U.N. climate talks in Lima.


TOPICS: History; Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: andes; epigraphyandlanguage; erichvondaniken; geoglyphs; godsgravesglyphs; greenpeace; lima; nazca; nazcalines; peru; ufo; ufos; unesco; vondaniken
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1 posted on 02/01/2018 12:56:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Can you imagine if a drunk American ‘journalist’ did this?
You may never hear from him ever again.
They should fence that area off to protect it.
Grow some trees around the borders.


2 posted on 02/01/2018 12:59:20 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

This is why we can’t have nice things.


3 posted on 02/01/2018 1:00:30 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s just great. now the ancient aliens will never come to visit us.


4 posted on 02/01/2018 1:02:15 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping


5 posted on 02/01/2018 1:04:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: BenLurkin

Or they will blow us up.


6 posted on 02/01/2018 1:04:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Why are they sacred? No one knows what they mean.


7 posted on 02/01/2018 1:06:00 PM PST by Eagles6
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8 posted on 02/01/2018 1:06:07 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: lee martell

It’s above the tree line................


9 posted on 02/01/2018 1:08:12 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: hal ogen

Kinda sounds like something I would do - sadly


10 posted on 02/01/2018 1:09:00 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: nickcarraway

How about a fence, folks.


11 posted on 02/01/2018 1:10:07 PM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: nickcarraway

Desert bollards.


12 posted on 02/01/2018 1:18:51 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: nickcarraway; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks nickcarraway. Great, now the effin' aliens are going to hover over all the world's cities and just wipe us the eff out! /s

13 posted on 02/01/2018 1:19:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: House Atreides

A fence might spoil the view & someone could always drive through the fence. Maybe one of those doohickeys that punctures your tires if you drive over it would work.


14 posted on 02/01/2018 1:20:16 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: nickcarraway; SaveFerris; PROCON; FredZarguna; mylife; Lil Flower; Corky Ramirez; CopperTop; ...
Hi, I'm H.E. Pennypacker. I'm a wealthy American industrialist uh,
looking to open a silver mine in the mountains of Peru and uh, before
I invest millions in a lucrative mine, I, I'd like to go a little native.
Uh, Get the feel of their condiments, of their unmentionables,
you know, the real uh, gritty-gritty.


15 posted on 02/01/2018 1:20:47 PM PST by Gamecock (The greatest threat to humanity is not "out there" but "in here" in the recesses of the soul. TK)
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To: Eagles6
2000 years ago:

Mom, we're bored.

*You kids go play in the dirt. Draw some pictures or something.

Other kids saw what they were doing decided to one up them. Snowballed when more kids got involved.

16 posted on 02/01/2018 1:21:41 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fortj sure)
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To: BenLurkin
:^D

Or, they'll have a good laugh about the primitive artistic abilities of Earthlings.

17 posted on 02/01/2018 1:23:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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18 posted on 02/01/2018 1:27:14 PM PST by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: csvset

Now I’ve seen everything.


19 posted on 02/01/2018 1:30:13 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: nickcarraway

Clips.(4 minutes) from “In Search of” https://youtu.be/etMHdEdAxiQ


20 posted on 02/01/2018 1:36:21 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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