SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A glittering monolith found in the desert of Utah was a mysterious beacon that immediately caught the attention of people around the world with a pandemic plaguing the holiday season.
Unveiled to the public shortly before Thanksgiving, it drew hundreds of people to a remote, red-rock country to see and touch other worldly edifices that stimulate both science-fiction films and the state’s famous land-art work.
But the newcomers also flattened the plants from their cars and left human waste in the bathroom-free backountry. Now, two men known for extreme sports in Utah’s flowing outdoor landscapes say it was the kind of damage that caused them to set foot late into the night and kick it.
There are large follow-up follow-ups for their posts about base jumping and slacklining, such as skydiving by Sylvan Christensen and Andy Lewis, like Outdoor Titrop and Walking King. In videos posted on Instagram and YouTube, they said they were part of a group that pushed down a hollow stainless-steel structure and carried it into a wheelboy.
Christensen said in a statement to media outlets late Tuesday that the ground was not ready for the flow and that its federal managers could not expect it.
“The secret was infatuation and we want to use this time to unite the people behind the real issue here – we are losing our public land – things like this will not help,” he wrote.
He said the group supported art and artists but said it was a “moral failure” to cut the rock for a monotonous rect bho, and the damage caused by the “internet sensation” was even worse.
Disappointed by the group’s action, there are lots of people who have traveled long distances to see the shiny silver structure, just to find a blank space next to a triangular sheet of metal above the ground hole.
But deletion does not break the law. San Juan County Sheriff Jason Torgan said Wednesday he could not investigate the theft as a property case because no one has gone so far as to consider his own structure. The original creator remains a mystery.
“The monopoly on public property was destroyed,” Torzer said in an email to the Associated Press. Since it was placed there without permission in the first place, the original installation is also under investigation, he said.
A similar composition that appeared in Romania last week has since disappeared.
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