Posted on 03/27/2008 2:46:25 PM PDT by blam
GGG Ping.
Bad Ju-Ju, fer sure.
They should sentence him to a few thousand hours of guarding the statues from vandals and make him pay for his own room and boar while he’s doing it.
Save your self the pain.
Don’t look.
Quick Death, but after Bunja!
What was the Brady Bunch Hawaiian episode?
(You bring me gum gum?)
Another Ugly Finn.
“Moai?”
Man allegedly breaks ear off Easter Island icon
AP | 3/25/2008 | Staff
Posted on 03/25/2008 4:11:49 PM EDT by Red in Blue PA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991456/posts
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This countryman of mine has been lynched high. Ear off. 7 years in a South American prison. There were more column meters published on the death of Princess Diana than there were on the invasion at Normandy. Soon there will be more column meters on this earlobe of the moai statute (1 out of 400-1000, the hungry media does not even know the number) than there are columns on the massive Buddha statutes annihilated by the Taleban regime. After this publicity, even a day in a South American jail would kill him.
And as I read the actual story behind the News from Congoo to Australia, it seems to me that he’s not proven to break it by purpose.
A high-octan, adrenaline addict adventurer climbs on a top of a high and sacred monument. Bad enough. The Finn brokes the ear of this fragile lava type of stone. Worse enough. My countryman tries to hide it and runs away. Worst enough. (OK, Oll Korrect, he confessed what happened later on.) But this does not prove him a thief though the whole globe would shout and shoot so!
It was the Easter week at the Easter Island. The same week the Finnish leaders of the Botnia pulp factory at the border river between Uruguay and Argentine were on trial in a South American court for “Planned damage”. After Finnish flags had been burnt in the streets of Argentine for 3 years for this biggest investment ever to the poor country of Uruguay. We have a classical scape goat and red herring here, it appears to me. Not every tattood boxer is suffering from Dementia pugilistica. In Finland we enjoy extreme sports, but the aim was not to vandalize it appears to me. So now we know we should prefer Tibet over the highest 22-meter Moai for climbing. That I want to apologize.
An outrageous mob wanting to lynch a man is an old scene, only the internet phenomenon is new. A raging mob behaves irrationally when it goes out to lynch. The Unesco World Heritage was meant to do with true history and nobility of the native cultures. The local Rapa Nui (Isla de Pascua) people are not after this juridical murder. The hanging high a possibly innocent solitary tourist hiking alone accross the South American countries at the end of the world is in 180 degree opposition to the Unesco Heritage ethos!
Pauli Ojala
Finland
Another viewpoint on the topic:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Easter-island-broken-ear-Tintti-ja-sarkynyt-korva.htm
Maybe you'd like to comment on th below linked thread:
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