Vandalism to Native Art.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by First Lady

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

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

So Knowlton made this up, and since that time, nobody familiar with the area has questioned that this boulder suddenly sprouted pictographs and petroglyphs until now?

Does the media research anything before disseminating it to the public?

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Wormius

So Knowlton made this up, and since that time, nobody familiar with the area has questioned that this boulder suddenly sprouted pictographs and petroglyphs until now?

Does the media research anything before disseminating it to the public?

So I am wondering if they will do a follow up interview with him asking why he would fake this incident?

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by Wormius

So Knowlton made this up, and since that time, nobody familiar with the area has questioned that this boulder suddenly sprouted pictographs and petroglyphs until now?

Does the media research anything before disseminating it to the public?

There is something fishy about this whole situation.

The RCMP say that there are no reports that any pictographs ever existed on the rock. How the eff did it end up in a national newspaper with multiple sources confirming the existence of the pictographs? Was there no research centre, university, government department etc etc that had any knowledge of this?

This guy was doing "research" on this rock but had no permits or documentation of any kind? Nothing from any official or academic sources as to the existence of this? How did the newspaper not know it was all made up? I can't imagine this is a coverup, even if natives in Canada have covered up and destroyed research before, in order to continue the alleged falsehood that they were the first ones here.

So if this was literally just one man and a rock and the National Post published this story then that is a total joke. The follow up article is so vague on the details though it is hard to tell what really happened.

[Daradon]

Can't really add anything that hasn't been said. Which there was a 'beat sense into them' clause in our justice system for stuff like this.

EDIT: Just caught up to the second page. I guess the thread wasn't so long I couldn't have read it through...

What a weird story.

[undercoverbrother]

Mr Knowlton has his say:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10...-to-his-story/

The facts of the case were settled, yet Mr. Knowlton’s convictions have not wavered and mystery and confusion still shrouds the Glenwood Erratic. Myths carry their own power and this one has its genesis in the mind of Mr. Knowlton.
In a red-roofed restaurant in the town of Fort MacLeod, about 50 kilometres away from the boulder, he stands by his claims that the artwork and writing existed. The Mounties, he insists, are promoting a cover-up, and the destruction of this and other historic sites are part of a plot to erase Blackfoot heritage.