Super fortunate for the miscreants captured on the following video that Teddy Roosevelt isn’t around today because if he were the Bull Moose would have his elephant gun in their collective grill RIGHT NOW if he were to see what they did in the serene federally-managed landscape in the Pacific Northwest last week.

To set the scene: the idiots were in Oregon, at Pacific City’s Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area, rocking back and forth one of its most celebrated rock features — a formation called the “duckbill.” A pedestal made out of sandstone that’s 18 MILLION YEARS OLD and that’s now, because of their stupidity and some irrational, pea-brained beef, is pretty much gone forever. Destroyed.

This from The Daily Beast:

[The owner of the video] told KATU News that the vandals explained their motives to him afterward.

“I asked them, you know, why they knocked the rock down, and the reply I got was: their buddy broke their leg earlier because of that rock,” he said. “They basically told me themselves that it was a safety hazard, and that they did the world or Oregon a favor.”

Oregon State Parks wrote in a Facebook post today that it is investigating the incident.

Just frustrating when ignorant people ruin something for the rest of the country. This is a beautiful land we get to enjoy — do your part to preserve it, nay sabotage. Remember what Woody Guthrie said and be a patriot in this way. Pass this troubling post/video around as a lesson to our fellow Americans and children, i.e. “don’t do this.”