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icymist

(15,888 posts)
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 11:06 PM Dec 2012

Petroglyphs stolen from sacred Calif. American Indian site

BISHOP, Calif. Rock carvings that graced a sacred American Indian site in California's Sierra Nevada for thousands of years have fallen prey to modern thieves armed with power saws.

At least four petroglyphs -- some 2 feet wide and located 15 feet above the ground -- were hacked from lava cliffs in the Eastern Sierra, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.

Visitors to the area, known as Volcanic Tableland, discovered the theft and reported it to the federal Bureau of Land Management on Oct. 31.

"This was the worst act of vandalism ever seen" on the 750,000 acres of public land administered by the BLM field office in Bishop, BLM archaeologist Greg Haverstock told the newspaper.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57551885/petroglyphs-stolen-from-sacred-calif-american-indian-site/

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Petroglyphs stolen from sacred Calif. American Indian site (Original Post) icymist Dec 2012 OP
This kind of thing just pisses me off Tyrs WolfDaemon Dec 2012 #1
Well that is a lowlife thing to do. glinda Dec 2012 #2

Tyrs WolfDaemon

(2,289 posts)
1. This kind of thing just pisses me off
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 11:27 PM
Dec 2012

There are no good words for it or the people that did this, and what I think should be done to the idiots that did this can't be said in bad, much less polite, company.


Perhaps the end of the world is upon us this month and we will never again leave our dirty finger prints on this planet or the universe.

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