I wasn't defending the "fat assed thug".
As a gun owner, I am very sensitive to the unbridled attempt to jail people for victimless crimes. I personally don't feel victimized by the loss of this particular rock. Perhaps you do and I can live with that.
What I was pointing out is that the danger to the public of encountering a rock as unstable as this one was is extreme. If I were to have only a single jail cell available, then I would be looking at whether our public servants had exposed the public to unnecessary danger.
My analysis of the physics is consistent with a very high possibility that the man could have been almost instantly killed by having a ton of rock falling on him.
I don't believe that the man thought that he was destroying something at the time he did. He was simply fascinated with the fact that he could move the rock and he pursued that fascination to a somewhat unexpected end. The video shows his surprise at the instant the rock let loose.
What do you think his punishment should be for putting a rock into a place where nature was destined to put it?
I liken the response to my comments to what I often receive when responding to opinions about Richard Nixon. I would much rather see Richard Nixon in jail than this "fat assed thug". Usually I am accused of being aligned with the liberal media for persecuting a conservative, when in fact I am perfectly capable of finding fault in conservatives without compromising my own conservatism.
“What do you think his punishment should be for putting a rock into a place where nature was destined to put it?”
Put it back. As it was.
What's also fascinating is that one of the guys had filed a personal injury lawsuit alledging "serious, permanent, and debilitating" from a car accident. Specifics were an injury to his back serious enough to cause "loss of joy of life".
But maybe we're losing site of the true wonder of this in our haste to condemn him for his moronic and mindless act of vandalism. Now, thanks to You-Tube, we have witnessed a miracle. Mr. Taylor's injuries are gone. He has been healed. He is capable of pushing over half-ton rocks without pain and without any problem. The "joy of life" has returned, if his high fives are any indication. And his bogus lawsuit will no doubt be dropped.