Posted on 06/25/2021 5:58:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A large area of the Petroglyph National Monument was damaged by visitors earlier this month.
More than 300 stacked rocks called "cairns" were recently found by park neighbors on June 17 and reported to park staff.
Officials said creating cairns can damage archaeological sites and increase damage from erosion.
“We ask that our visitors please respect these sacred landscapes and refrain from moving or stacking rocks, and practice ‘Leave No Trace’ principles when visiting the monument," Petroglyph National Monument Superintendent Nancy Hendricks said. "Moving, stacking, or making shapes out of rocks is a form of vandalism and will impact every visitor who comes after.”
Petroglyph National Monument damaged after visitors move, stack hundreds of rocks Investigators are looking for whoever made them. If anyone has information, they are asked to contact the park at (505) 899-0205.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
It started with statues of White guys.
Maybe there’s something _under_ the cairns...
I know it normal for old folks like me to think the young people are fools…but sometime I just wonder why someone would think this is OK to do?
My standing theory is there are no fathers around to call them dumbasses when they are 13–so they evolve into idiots who do these things.
Aren’t they just Rocks?
Pushing order over increased entropy is a big part of the human condition.
Besides whatta bout the paths and letting peeps in at all?
I agree with you. One job of the father is to teach respect for other people’s property.
My dad told me many times when I was growing up; “Keep you hands in your pockets”. Words to live by.
It depends on whether they destroyed something that taught us as to how the ancients used to live and do things.
Typical Fake News lack of useful content...
Yup, it’s a respect thing.
Creating tomorrow’s Petroglyph. Don’t the egg heads have a grave to rob.
My theory is that the parents dumped the kids on the school systems where the teachers told them that anything they did was worth merit and nothing should be criticized. This led to a belief that nobody can tell them what to do, and they can do whatever the heck they want.
My predicate theory from the 1990s was that people in the 1970s used to decry how "children were having children." The children of the 90s were the children that those children had. What we're seeing 20 years later is that pattern repeating. These are the children that those children's children's children had. Their parents were spoiled, the children were neglected or pawned off to the schools, and the teachers coddled them with indoctrination that they were special, that they could do no wrong, and that nobody had the right to tell them otherwise, especially their parents.
-PJ
“...nobody had the right to tell them otherwise, especially their parents...”
This Grandpa is not above straightening out Grandkids behaving poorly in my presence.
Probably done by a bunch of self entitled punks of what ever the generation name of the current crop of idiots is.
-PJ
At least it wasn’t graffiti over the rock paintings.
“Keep your hands in your pockets.”
Hmmm ... My grandmother frequently yelled at me, “Get your hands out of your pockets!” Eventually she sewed the front pockets closed on all my pants. (true)
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