Posted on 09/06/2016 10:54:49 AM PDT by Theoria
When the iconic sandstone formation known as "the duckbill" collapsed, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department wasn't suspicious.
Erosion happens. Rocks fall. The stretch of cliff where the formation was located, in Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area, was so unstable it was fenced off to keep visitors away. There seemed to be no mystery: The 7- by 10-foot pedestal on the coast probably collapsed on its own.
Then a man named David Kalas said it wasn't time and weather that brought down the rock. It was vandals.
And he had video.
Kalas told The Oregonian that when he saw a group of strangers messing with the formation, he was laughing instead of alarmed.
But then he saw it start to wobble, and he hit record.
His footage — which we should note includes one expletive — appears to show a group of people gathered around a pedestal rock formation, pushing and pulling on the rock.
When it comes down, a voice is heard shouting, "Got 'em!"
Kalas told KATU News that he spoke with the people who he says brought down the rock in the fenced-off section of Cape Kiwanda.
"I asked them, you know, why they knocked the rock down, and the reply I got was: their buddy broke their leg earlier because of that rock," Kalas told KATU. "They basically told me themselves that it was a safety hazard, and that they did the world or Oregon a favor."
The Tillamook County Pioneer news site published a statement from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, saying the department and the state police are reviewing the video and determining how to respond.
"The department takes vandalism of a state park's natural features seriously," the statement reads.
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They would have then sued 0regon for their injuries.
Got to sneer at the idiot in the article who is more angry at the person who didn’t attempt to stop the vandals than he is angry at the actual vandals.
No fool, it’s the vandals who are 100% responsible.
A duck with a pancake on its head? Shame on them!
It “appears” to be so.
No.
It was being held in place by artificial means, cables and steel hooks, but nature finally won out.
Better to be a Crack-ER than a Crack-HO................
That would make a good t-shirt slogan.
Jumping off of the top of the rock maybe?
A “rock” just sitting there CANNOT “break anything” !
It probably has a monetary value, from tourism. They need to find & fine those people.
And then there’s the Old Neck of the Mountain in NH.
What a pyrrhic victory it would have been if they had broken it, and it crushed them while falling over.
Sometimes you can still savor something like that.
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