Vandalism to Native Art.

[undercoverbrother]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/09...r-washer-acid/

Historians are comparing it to the Taliban’s destruction of massive Buddhist statues in Afghanistan: Ancient aboriginal pictograms and petroglyphs on an Albertan rock formation have been systematically destroyed by cultural vandals using a rock drill, acid and a power washer.

[surferguy]

I hate people some days

[Coys1882]

wow - that's a dick move.

The planning that went into that is astonishing. Name and shame these clowns.

[Rathji]

I cant even imagine what would posses someone to do something so crappy.

[KTrain]

This is totally senseless.

The amount of work and planning to do it, as well the permanence of the destruction, I hope they catch and throw the book at the fools who did it.

[Regulator75]

Originally Posted by surferguy

I hate people some days

This.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by KTrain

This is totally senseless.

The amount of work and planning to do it, as well the be permanence of the destruction, I hope they catch and throw the book at the fools who did it.

This is what really bothers my about this. This took planning, it does not appears to be a couple of jacka$$ kids.

[Nyah]

Unbelievable. Whoever did this knew exactly what they were doing - I hope they're caught before they can destroy something else.

[wookster]

wow... To just mindlessly plan and destroy something of historical value like that, just ######ed.

[woob]

Yeah, heard about this on CBC this morning and was appalled. I hope they catch whoever was responsible.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Coys1882

wow - that's a dick move.

No kidding.

[jeffman]

Is this either research sabotage or just vandalsim

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by jeffman

Is this either research sabotage or just vandalsim

Is research sabotage common?

[Buff]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Is research sabotage common?

I don't know how common it is but reading the comments from an article, it seems like it definitely isn't rare. There are people who theorize that the aboriginals don't want this research to go ahead in fears that it will prove that somebody else settled in Canada before them. Then there are people theorizing that it is land owners who don't want to lose their land. Others who just want to keep it sacred.

Whatever the reason, it is absolutely disgusting to do such a thing.

[Flacker]

Not quite as villainous, but this news pissed me off yesterday as well.

The timing couldn't be much worse.

Staff at Lougheed House in Calgary have reported the historic estate was targeted by vandals over the weekend – days after former Premier Peter Lougheed passed away.

http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/lougheed-...ekend-1.959597


Why someone would go to the effort to be such a complete asshat is beyond me!

[saskflames69]

People these days.. wow.

[Stampede2TheCup]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Is research sabotage common?

It seems to be way too common lately. I think though not all cases are motivated by research sabotage but it still is a side effect in all cases.


From the article in OP:

Another Alberta site containing aboriginal pictograms and petroglyphs was recently filled in with epoxy cement, while another blown up for use as gravel.

In a different type of incident, a rare dinosaur skeleton found near Grande Prairie was destroyed by vandals who had “smashed indiscriminately” the fossilized bones of the Hadrosaur, scientists involved in the dig said.

Also, the Pincher Creek Voice has a more detailed article.

Following a path that he said was the original pioneer highway for wagons running between Fort Macleod and Pincher Creek, we came to an area that demonstrated the systematic destruction of a culture. Huge holes left behind are now all that are left of the erratics there and pillars that were deliberately dynamited in the 1920's in an apparent attempt to remove any and all references to the culture that existed there before the europeans came. Historian George Classen wrote "Stonehenge of the Foothills" about this site.

According to George Classen, Energy Mines and Resources, "In 1972 an Indian drawing was removed from Big Rock. Also, on one occasion the farmer on whose land Big Rock is situated found a power utility crew on the rock, ready to blast it for construction material." Like the Okotoks rock, the Glenwood rock had Indian drawings and syllabic writing that may have been hundreds if thousands of years old. I saw them, they were old and now these markings have been permanently destroyed.

I suspect the "link" to this destruction is to nullify my long held claim that the Blackfoot HAD a written language before missionaries arrived, which could force archeologists to rewrite history. I recall a few "experts" theorizing about the meaning of some petroglyphs around Southern Alberta and looking stunned when asked by a friend, "What might the Indians say?" The petroglyphs are a provincial heritage of Alberta. They are being researched by various Universities in Alberta and elsewhere. Depts. of Archeology, Native American Studies, and history of the Americas would all be terribly distressed to hear of their destruction.

http://www.pinchercreekvoice.com/201...e-used-to.html

[3 Justin 3]

This is going to sound terrible, but when I saw that picture I laughed because I thought it looked like someone put a 6 pack of beer (though there are 8 holes) in cement and let it dry like that.

Off to hell I go.

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by surferguy

I hate people some days

This.

Even if they get caught they'll probably get a fine and probation. They should get a public flogging and be put in the stocks for 30 days so people can walk by and kick them in the ass.

[First Lady]

Turns out it was hoax. (?) Very odd.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/09...medium=twitter