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Man crashes truck into statue at Easter Island (Up: accident)
- Thread starter Tom Penny
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Protect the statues! I mean, protect THESE statues. Not the ones that glorify slavery in the southern United States.
This is not the kind of thing one can live down. He's forever gonna be known as the guy who destroyed a prominent ancient artifact.
I truly hate to see stuff like this. Destruction of cultural sites hurts all of humanity, and I'm sure it feels like an attack (because really it is, whether this shithead was concious of that or not) on the indigenous people.
EDIT: Even as an accident, this kind of negligence has real consequences that hurts the local culture and our collective history.
EDIT: Even as an accident, this kind of negligence has real consequences that hurts the local culture and our collective history.
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Edit: apparently it was a vehicle malfunction. I'm an idiot for blaming this person without more info.
Why would they allow vehicles close to the statues? I would have thought they had these in an enclosed park or something. Or do people drive their vehicles inside the park? I've never been to Easter island.
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I'm surprised more people haven't done stuff like this tbh. Knowing something is historic and protected makes it really tempting to break for some people. Especially when it's as easy as just driving your car into it.
Actually that's a real thing.
The boredom must have been incredible to get people bashing away at stone like that, not quite Stonehenge level, but thank fuck we invented television.
They're all over the island and the locals are normally extremely respectful of their heritage. This guy was local but he might have been having an episode of some kind.
I've visited the island a while ago; the Moai in the first image is not the one that has been damaged. It's not near the sea.
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Ah, the video isn't loading for me, and with multiple people saying he did it on purpose I assumed the video confirmed it. My bad. Thanks for clarifying that.
Quite sad that the statue was damaged. There's an archaeological park in my country with ancient statues that were stolen/vandalized before the government stepped up and somewhat started to care for them (nothing like Easter island of course; I think our tallest statue is maybe 7 meters tall), and it's quite sad to visit and see the damaged/weathered statues of a lost civilization.
Al Jazeera+ is (as always) biased. The crash was an accident, NOT deliberate:
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/world/americas/easter-island-statue.html
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/world/americas/easter-island-statue.html
Well that's totally different
Guy probably feels guilty as fuck
This is a good post.These are the only Moai statues people should destroy.
Guess it was only a matter of time until this happened if they just let anyone drive their trucks right next to the statues. They should probably rethink that.
His parole should be that he has one week to do this to the confederate statues in the Southern US. Give him a Ford F350.
If I remember right, the stone the statues are made of is relativity soft, so they're very vulnerable to damage by tourists.