Paintball Vandalism in Hawaii

[DocsMachine]

Vandals mark 300-year-old native markings.

Given the largish Hawaiian contingent here, I'm surprised this wasn't posted already.

Now, the thing is, I'm not so sure that's actual vandalism. A proper vandal would have fired more paint, and likely made an effort to actually hit the marks/figures.

Those, to me, look like errant shots. I know there's a fair pump/stock-class contingent on the Islands (probably in no small part due to the fact that paint is as expensive as anything else over there... ) and that looks to me more like random hits from a quick outlaw game, that just happened to take place around the markings.

That's not an excuse, of course, but I'd rather it be accidental than intentional. Anyone know more about the event?

Doc.

[Axel]

Vandals are chickenshit. Crack off two rounds from the plastic Walmart pump and let's get out of here!!!

Of course I always considered "vandalism" to be permanent damage, not gelatin that'll wash off in the rain. Not to excuse paintball mischief, of course; it's a disgusting stain on the community and I like to think it's perpetrated by random Walmart shoppers, not actual players

I'd rather believe it was accidental, too, but what are the odds some guys were playing an outlaw game that just happened to be next to historic petroglyphs? And just happened to have a firefight right next to them?

[freedom]

from the story, although the pics maybe aren't accurate...
"“I would guess several hundred paintballs were shot at this historical site,” said DOCARE Lt. John Yamamoto"

[AnarchicArctic]

Well this is obviously not a good thing, and awful for the cultural significance of the area. But semantically speaking, is 300 years really considered ancient?

[Rainmaker]

If it was purposeful, the vandals probably would have shot those stick figure guys more in the crotch area... just sayin'

[Chappy]

Yeah but even if this was an "accident", it started with playing where you don't have expressed permission. Ignorance is not innocence. And I have a hard time considering a paintballer that is playing where they do have permission as ignorant, rather than willfully negligent.

[Axel]

Well this is obviously not a good thing, and awful for the cultural significance of the area. But semantically speaking, is 300 years really considered ancient?

I had to look it up. Historians consider anything prior to the unification of Hawaii under Kamehameha in 1810 to be Ancient Hawaiian History.

History is the study of the written record, and since as far as I can tell the Polynesian cultures in Hawaii had no formal writing system before the Europeans arrived, that's probably the reason for the early cutoff compared to the western world, which is usually considered anything prior to the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD (to oversimplify a bit)

*The more you know 🌈⭐*

[AnarchicArctic]

Nice, thanks for the trivia!

[pghp8ntballer]

Now there’s a band I haven’t heard in a long time...