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These morons are all over the news!! And I've been stewing about it all day. These two need to be publicly expelled from the Boy Scouts and banned from public lands. The worst part of the whole thing is, they thought they were TEACHING children a lesson YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING!! UNREAL!!!

P.s. - Thank you for posting this. You beat me to it. ;)

Utards.

The important thing is the scout leaders taught their scouts a very major life lesson.

Yea, lesson for today - " how to get a felony conviction for vandalism"

@Bradshaws
No, the lesson is not to Videotape yourself doing something moronic, stupid and illegal....Justifying it for safety reasons....How stupid does he think people are??? All the Kids will remember is how fun that was, jumping around on formations and knocking them down....

The road to youtube is paved with morons.

Alston Neal wrote:The road to youtube is paved with morons.

...and with enough hits, wouldn't these idiots start making money!?

It looked like the boulder could just as easily have rocked and pinned him between the two boulders... Now THAT would have been a real life (or death) lesson!
And the video likely would have garnered even more hits.

I have a differing opinion, based on my experience with so many of the highest caliber members of our society. It seems to me that these were not the brightest people, as their gleeful and non-malicious tone demonstrates, and that they were in fact attempting to "help out" their fellow man. Rocks erode, and time passes, adipose accumulates, and soon they will be dead. Until then, the particular individual might have inadvertently done the same thing, had he been strolling causally through the park and become winded, light headed, dizzy and then suddenly found himself unable to stand under his own power, he rocked gently from side to side, staggering about like a drunk, gradually becoming more erratic in his movements, so eventually the full weight of his body was swaying back and forth like a pendulum, until he smashed face first in to the rock, knocking it off it's 70 million year old perch and onto the ground. Had that been the case, we might instead be writing about another stupid hiker who needed to be rescued after passing out from extreme exhaustion. At least in this case, we know he wasn't a hiker.

Bacon

That's pretty sad. Someone could take that same warped sense of accomplishment and dump some of the balancing rocks within the Superstitions :tt:

Boy Scouts are a menace - or at least the "leaders". They also burned down a Ranger cabin and destroyed an Arch site in Utah recently ... that one is not on the news.

I've always wanted to knock over a balance rock! I've never found one that I was able to move. Even with good leverage!
These guys are my heros!

@chumley
I've always wanted to throw bowling balls and 5 gallon buckets of paint in rainbow colors down the face of Hoover Dam.

I'm glad I never took video of the time I drop kicked a natural bridge and it collapsed on those cliff dwellings...

But wait there's more!

( 2018-08-28 dead link removed )

What a sleaze.

here's a tshirt idea:

"I vandalized a priceless natural rock formation and all I got was the hatred of every outdoor enthusiast in the world".