Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "2 men indicted for destruction on ancient Lake Mead rock formation" video.

  1. In this case, it might be more appropriate to have them gluing the rocks that other prisoners broke back together before the other prisoners break them again.
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  2. That is true, although I kind of feel like it should be at times when the crime is obscure enough that you'd have to know to even ask an attorney to look it up in their law books. That's things like it being illegal to paint birds yellow in some parts of the country. Not things like destroying public property. It's not even like there was any legitimate reason for doing it either.
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  3. That's because they technically might not have been the ones that were in the video. That gets established in court, although the likelihood of two people looking like that with a kid that all match the people in the video and were in the park at that time is beyond remote.
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  4. They pretty much always plead not guilty unless offered a deal. It's how the system works. We'll have to see if the plea changes or if there's a conviction.
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  5. As an argument that may have been acceptable 50 years ago, but we live in an era where we generally understand that formations like that are rare and that humans exist in sufficient numbers to destroy all of them if we want to.
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  6. It's not the stones, it's the formation. The stones are probably hundreds of millions of years old, the formation is more recent.
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  7. One of the reasons. Another being that some areas are sensitive that it's not possible to visit them without noticeable harm being done.
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  8.  @neilkurzman4907  If they were indeed the ones that did that, they clearly don't have $10,000 without it being a massive inconvenience. That's especially the case after they spend whatever they're spending on lawyers.
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  9.  @EverythingHoops7705  We can care about more than one thing. The resources used to track them down for prosecution were never going to be used in the Middle East to stop Israel from engaging in crimes against humanity or Hamas from engaging in terrorism. Just to pick an example.
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  10. I like to think that the government, along with everything else, can improve over time. That damage is done, although I do wonder what the alternative would have been as we didn't get better ways of generating power or distributing water until decades later.
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  11. I don't. I would prefer to get protection before being seriously injured or murdered if possible.
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