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OccludedFug t1_iun00q4 wrote

This is why we can't have nice things.

What are people going to do with their relics anyway?

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molotovzav t1_iun7tk3 wrote

I hate people. I just don't understand why most of you are so dumb and greedy?

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flanderguitar t1_iun9s7a wrote

It's too expensive for the state to conserve. Also, the water levels will submerge it once again soon.

Maybe some activist will glue their hand to it or something?

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WirelessBCupSupport t1_iund5s3 wrote

Friend has this cool rock collection (geology, not music). I look at one and its really amazing. He's like, want it? Can I? and then tells me its petrified wood from the Petrified forest and ...

its poaching/theft as that is a protected park.

(no, I didn't take the offer. But I did give him shit and said the gods would be appeased if he mailed it back to the park service...)

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breadexpert69 t1_iundh6u wrote

Its 2022, ppl wont listen or obey. You have to assume people are just like animals.

Best they can do is put the thing behind a huge glass wall

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TinyAd280 t1_iunfimz wrote

Louisiana strikes again (yeah, I'm from there).

The shipwreck is on state property, but the state doesn't plan to do anything with the ship. But they're stopping people from dismantling it. Later on, they'll have to pay somebody to do just that.

Too lazy to search for a *facepalm* emoji

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OccludedFug t1_iunjs8l wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#419,039)

For one, let's let history be history,

and for two, somebody is going to get hurt or sick because they were picking that trash, and since it's state property, they'll sue the state and win.

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littlebubulle t1_iunu6bq wrote

Replying to OccludedFug (#418,337)

Possible reasons :

  • Braggging about having a relic.
  • Selling to people so the latter can brag about having a relic.
  • Bragging about how they don't respect the authorities.
  • Maybe magic spells.
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treckin t1_iunxnmg wrote

r/iamatotalpieceofshit

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Dzotshen t1_iunxxhk wrote

Replying to OccludedFug (#418,337)

Honestly. I remember on the Big Fat Quiz with Jimmy Carr, a hundred years ago people were given a small pick to chisel off a bit of Stonehenge to take home with them and my eyes got big as saucers in disbelief

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charlezk t1_iuo1c7i wrote

Replying to TinyAd280 (#419,049)

Pretty sure the article said that when the water rises again it will just go back to being submerged, so they won't be paying anyone to do anything.

But yeah, I laughed at the

>Why is the state department concerned about visitors taking away mementos from the S.S. Brookhill if they have no plans to preserve it? McGimsey explained that it's state property and they want it left the way it is.

So basically it's "because we said so, and we also said it's ours so nyah"

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Co1dNight t1_iuofhuq wrote

Hearing this shit happen to things that have historical or natural value makes me sick.

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Marokiii t1_iup2p6t wrote

Replying to charlezk (#420,146)

Or because state property is state property. Just because someone isn't actively using something doesn't mean it's now free for everyone else to just take.

The shipwreck could last decades(theres a sailboat shipwreck near where i live and its been there longer than ive been alive. No active preservation is going on with it)or even longer if just left alone, allowing many people to visit it and see it. If people start to take it apart piece by piece than soon no one will be able to see it.

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Odd-Neighborhood5119 t1_iup2vp1 wrote

My mom taught me look with with your eyes not with your hands more people need to learn that

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whiskeyboundcowboy t1_iupe90j wrote

The rule I follow when diving, Take pictures, leave only bubbles. We should take care of our dive sites for all to enjoy into the future. I'm constantly cleaning out dive sites that everyone dumps their trash into. I want everyone to experience diving and being underwater.

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CountBeetlejuice t1_iursb9m wrote

Replying to breadexpert69 (#418,944)

you do realize the state is making no effort to preserve it and its just going to be submerged and disintegrate

i could understand if the state wanted to preserve it, but they dont. they are leaving it to waste away.

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CountBeetlejuice t1_iurswtp wrote

if there was going to be any effort to preserve this ship, i would be on the side of the researchers

but there isnt, its going to get submerged and just disappear

ironically all that would be preserved is what the tourists keep.

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