Tourists Toss Dinosaur Tracks

[CMD]

Well, here's an odd problem. At Red Fleet State Park in Utah, tourists, apparently enjoying seeing big rocks making big splashes, are inadvertently tossing the very fossil dinosaur tracks that the park is known for, into a lake. Seems like it's probably mostly kids.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44088042

https://www.facebook.com/Red-Fleet-State-Park-167046643485159/

[Broken Arrow]

Kids these days..

[2ndoldman]

Vandalism is rampant everywhere these days Charlie. I find this one difficult to call typical vandalism as was pointed out. The disturbing thing for me is that the youths are allowed to run around sensitive areas with no supervision.

[tomclark]

They put in picnic tables, walkways, bbq grills, bathrooms and put in durn Frisbee Golf, parking lots and boat ramps on top of shell mounds here. Plus, they mow the heck out these mounds, ringing trees and eroding them out. "legal vandalism"

[Havenhunter]

I've seen similar behavior on NC's Outer Banks. On the dunes where signs clearly state "Stay Off the Dunes" in order to protect the sea oats, show trodden paths as shortcuts to the beach. Folks dig up the sea oats to take home or kids pick them to flail one another with. I watched one family or tire a ghost crab just for fun, while bike riders rode down a boardwalk with signs that said "No Bikes". It appears fashionable to disregard posted or protected areas & then brag about it on social media.
On the OBX we call these folks "tourons"-- tourist+moron. They are the first to complain when the Patk Service closes off long stretches of the National Seashore because the turtles or birds are nesting & they just can't leave well enough alone.

[2ndoldman]

I call them "MEME's" They think of nothing other than themselves.
MINE MINE MINE. ME ME ME is their motto.
I can pretty well guarantee you that they are also NIMBYs. NOT IN MY BACK YARDers.