When a person warned that the men should remove the video before they go to jail, Hall fired back.

"Nobody’s going to jail," he wrote. You have a 2,000 lb boulder that is teetering on a 2"[sic] dirt ledge and about ready to fall off on it’s [sic] own. 5 minutes before this video we watched a family with many small children walk right below the rock to take a family photo. We didn’t do anything until they were gone because we didn’t want anyone to get hurt. One gust of wind and that rock was falling whether someone was there or not. ...

"I’ll take my chances with the cops rather then my conscience after hearing a family was crushed to death by a rock I was prompted to move."

Swalberg said just because a rock looks loose, it doesn’t mean people should knock it over.

Douchecopters.

Hopefully they don't hear about Arches National Park.

Definitely a cross between dipshits and innocent negligence. Their little celebration made me embarrassed for my species (though I am everyday), but if something is fragile and priceless, at least put up a sign. Their ignorance of the formation is nothing compared to the willful destruction of the environment humans do every day around the world.

Please please prosecute these morons and charge them a debilitating fine for destruction of a public monument. I'm fairly certain at the entrances to the park there are clearly posted instructions (satisfying artician's suggestion for a 'sign') to leave the rocks alone and hike at your own risk. If people want to take a picture in a dangerous spot, that's up to them, not Mr Douchebag. Now no one ever has that option ever again.
I guess they are too dumb to realize that the balanced formations are what people go to the park to see. Dumb is not an excuse for destruction.
Prosecute...harshly and publicly as an example to others.

'Merica!!!

Debilitating fine? That is a bit excessive. Regular fine should suffice.

No, I think they need to be fined harshly enough that no other moron will chance being caught doing this, and enough that they can't afford to go to the park anymore (which they should be banned from anyway).
I get pretty pissed off when morons destroy public property, especially when it's irreplaceable. They need to learn how wrong it is, and a 'regular' fine would likely be under $1500 total, not enough in my eyes.
Perhaps they should just have to pay to repair the formation and a few hundred hours of community service each, that would likely be debilitating enough for me.

Reports indicate that one of the men is a Scout leader? WTF?

http://wesa.fm/post/scout-leaders-who-toppled-ancient-rock-may-face-charges

Homo Vandalus.

Any outrage seems pretty hypocritical to me.

Those guys better watch out. That looks like Gorignak's territory.

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Right? Fine, banned from National parks for life, and their public self-immolation seems a harsh enough mistress? ...I'd add a judgement of a mandatory probation of five years wearing a shirt in public as community service which reads, "Utah Rock-Tipper Guy."

The same people who would sit at their computers and pontificate after working the system's chores at the system's game....and who are about as involved with real-time politics as it takes to cast a vote after reading blogs and bitching...the same recycle dutifully and with much sniffing of their own fart-gas with windows sealed tightly in their Prius'.....Would place public lands chicaneries right up there with serial killing.

It's getting very close to critical mass ignoramus-ism, idiocratic hell.

Bummer. I was hoping these types of things would still be there once the greater Earth itself was completely made uninhabitable by humans.

They're just rocks, guys. Take a picture then bulldoze them to make way for something useful.

What's the big deal? That formation couldn't be and older then 6000 years...

God will make more!

"muscles"

Phuck Yeah!

The plot thickens:

"A Boy Scout leader who came under fire for pushing over an ancient boulder in a national park filed a suit last month claiming he was suffering permanent "disability" and "impairment" from an auto accident four years ago.

Taylor initially faced scrutiny after a video of him pushing over a Jurassic era rock formation in the Goblin Valley State Park in Utah went viral.

Taylor, a Boy Scout leader, told ABC News that he should have handled the incident differently but thought the boulder was dangerous and thought it would be safer to push it over.

"The Boy Scouts didn't teach me to do this," Taylor told ABC News. "Would I do it again? Yes, with a ranger standing there. That's what we should have done.""