Friday, December 12, 2014

"Greenpeace damages ancient earth markings leaving footprints in the ground during a publicity stunt"

A spokesman for Greenpeace said: “Without reservation Greenpeace apologises to the people of Peru for the offence caused by our recent activity laying a message of hope at the site of the historic Nazca lines. We are deeply sorry for this.

The activists had entered a strictly prohibited area beside the figure of a hummingbird among the lines, the culture ministry said, and they had laid down big yellow cloth letters reading “Time for Change! The Future is Renewable” as the UN climate talks began in Peru’s capital.

“This has been done without any respect for our laws. It was done in the middle of the night. They went ahead and stepped on our hummingbird, and looking at the pictures we can see there’s very severe damage,” Castillo said. “Nobody can go on these lines without permission – not even the president of Peru!”

12 comments:

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

But Greenpeace is on a mission from G̶o̶d̶ gaia…

JAL said...

Well aren't they special.

Synova said...

We're sooooo sorry for laying out a message of hope!

Yeah... pull the other one.

OTOH, sometimes a little inconvenience for important change is... important... or something.

AllenS said...

Dear Peru,

Please put these people in prison for about 10 years minimum.

Michael Haz said...

But it was Greenpeace, and they are totes sorry. So it's all okay.

As an aside, I wonder just how much jet fuel was burned oh way high up in the at mos fere transporting the Greenpeace jerks to Peru.

virgil xenophon said...

ELB hits it square in the nuts..

virgil xenophon said...

er, ELB. sorry..

bagoh20 said...

Most graffiti is crap compared to the stuff it ruins underneath, even when it's graffiti over graffiti.

Christy said...

Do you figure the Lascaux cave art was just graffiti by bored hunter gatherers? FWIW, I've read that Egyptologists have found graffiti by ancient construction workers informative.

I'm good with hard time for Greenpeace.

Fr Martin Fox said...

The linked story makes Greenpeace look even worse:

“Our history of more than 40 years of peaceful activism clearly shows that we have always been most respectful with people around the world and their diverse cultural legacies.”

Golly, you mean we weren't supposed to pay any attention to those signs that said, "Priceless world-heritage site, no tresspassing; no really, we're not kidding"? Huh.

I'm Full of Soup said...

I laughed at this story. Does that mean I am a bad person.

At TOP the other day, I suggested she needed a new tag for posts about librul outrage librul ideas aka illogic and stupidity etc. The tag is "liberals are truly insane". This story proves it.

Methadras said...

In their quest to save the earth, they damage it. Fools.