Utah men rocked by felony charges for tipping over 200-million-year-old goblin sandstone formation

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It’s time to face the music for these two Jurass-holes.

Two former Utah Boy Scout troop leaders each face a third-degree felony criminal mischief charge after they filmed themselves in October gleefully pushing over a 200-million-year-old goblin sandstone formation in a state park.

They won’t do as much jail time as it took to make the majestic formation - the charges carries a maximum of five years and a $5,000 fine - but David Hall, 42, and Glenn Taylor, 45, clearly have been knocked down a notch for their stupid stunt.

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE/VIA YOUTUBE Taylor, who had claimed a disability from a car accident just months earlier, uses his muscles to shove the 2,000-pound boulder off its perch.

The minute-long clip shows Taylor trying to budge the boulder at the park as his pal, David Hall, sings the lyrics to 2 In A Room’s 1990 hit “Wiggle It.” Taylor’s son, a Boy Scout himself, looks on.

RELATED: THREE MEN FACE FELONY RAPS AFTER TOPPLING ANCIENT ROCK AT UTAH STATE PARK AND CHEERING

Suddenly, the rock — one of several so-called “goblins” scattered throughout the park — falls over, and the three Boy Scouts erupt into laughter as they give each other high fives.

AP Glenn Taylor high-fives his son after successfully defacing a sandstone formation that took Mother Nature 200 million years to create.

“We have modified Goblin Valley,” Hall, exclaims in the video before he zooms into where the rock had stood since the Jurassic period.

“That’s crazy that it was held up by that little bit of dirt.”

The charges the men face are for defacing an item worth more than $1,500, but less than $5,000 worth of damage, the Salt Lake City Tribune reported.

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE/VIA YOUTUBE Taylor flexes and mugs for the camera after showing everybody what a tough guy he is.

RELATED: MAN PUSHES 2,000-POUND ROCK A MONTH AFTER FILING INJURY SUIT

"We had to look at the value from an ‘as if we are trying to construct it’ standpoint. Clearly we can’t reconstruct it, but it was the only way we had to put some value on it," Utah State Parks Director Fred Hayes told the Tribune. "Whether that was right or not, we don’t know, but we had to come up with something."

There is no statute specifically protecting such ancient rock formations, but State Rep. Dixon Pitcher, R-Ogden, introduced a bill that would prevent and punish such destruction, the Tribune reported.

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE/VIA YOUTUBE ‘We have modified Goblin Valley,’ a gleeful Dave Hall exclaims in the video after the idiotic stunt last October.

The mindless morons claimed the delicately perched sandstone was an accident waiting for happen.

“The rock needed to come down,” Taylor said in an interview after the incident. “We did something right the wrong way.”

RELATED: BOY SCOUTS KICK OUT UTAH LEADERS WHO TOPPLED GOBLIN ROCK

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE/VIA YOUTUBE The boulder came to rest just below its perch. The men claimed they saved an accident waiting to happen.

Taylor created another headache for himself as the seemingly able-bodied agent of destruction. Just weeks before his rock-shoving stunt, he filed a lawsuit claiming he suffered “debilitating” physical injuries in a 2009 car crash.

Cassie McDonald, the teenage driver targeted in the suit, said Taylor’s back seemed healthy enough in the video.

“I was a little bit surprised that the man who pushed over this 2,000-pound rock formation was suing me for disability,” McDonald told the Deseret News. “I just thought it was interesting. I didn't think he had that much of a back problem."

The original YouTube posting has racked up more than 4.6 million views and about 24,000 comments - most users writing words of hate towards the men not suitable in a family newspaper.

And a park system spokesman said the men did nothing but cause trouble in the aged park.

This has been formed for literally millions of years, and it’s supposed to last for a long time,”Eugene Swalberg told the Deseret News. “It doesn’t need individuals doing the work of Mother Nature.”

sgoldstein@nydailynews.com or follow on Twitter

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

Silly news source. 200 million years? LOL The planet is only 2014 years old...

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I liked the beginning of the article, jurass-holes

[Danno 1,228]

I think they should add time on sentence just for looking so friggin goofy doing it.

My scout master looked like a drill sergeant, complete with stubby cigar.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

http://nydn.us/1a9tDqE

It’s time to face the music for these two Jurass-holes.

Two former Utah Boy Scout troop leaders each face a third-degree felony criminal mischief charge after they filmed themselves in October gleefully pushing over a 200-million-year-old goblin sandstone formation in a state park.

They won’t do as much jail time as it took to make the majestic formation - the charges carries a maximum of five years and a $5,000 fine - but David Hall, 42, and Glenn Taylor, 45, clearly have been knocked down a notch for their stupid stunt.

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE/VIA YOUTUBE Taylor, who had claimed a disability from a car accident just months earlier, uses his muscles to shove the 2,000-pound boulder off its perch.

The minute-long clip shows Taylor trying to budge the boulder at the park as his pal, David Hall, sings the lyrics to 2 In A Room’s 1990 hit “Wiggle It.” Taylor’s son, a Boy Scout himself, looks on.

RELATED: THREE MEN FACE FELONY RAPS AFTER TOPPLING ANCIENT ROCK AT UTAH STATE PARK AND CHEERING

Suddenly, the rock — one of several so-called “goblins” scattered throughout the park — falls over, and the three Boy Scouts erupt into laughter as they give each other high fives.

AP Glenn Taylor high-fives his son after successfully defacing a sandstone formation that took Mother Nature 200 million years to create.

“We have modified Goblin Valley,” Hall, exclaims in the video before he zooms into where the rock had stood since the Jurassic period.

“That’s crazy that it was held up by that little bit of dirt.”

The charges the men face are for defacing an item worth more than $1,500, but less than $5,000 worth of damage, the Salt Lake City Tribune reported.

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE/VIA YOUTUBE Taylor flexes and mugs for the camera after showing everybody what a tough guy he is.

RELATED: MAN PUSHES 2,000-POUND ROCK A MONTH AFTER FILING INJURY SUIT

"We had to look at the value from an ‘as if we are trying to construct it’ standpoint. Clearly we can’t reconstruct it, but it was the only way we had to put some value on it," Utah State Parks Director Fred Hayes told the Tribune. "Whether that was right or not, we don’t know, but we had to come up with something."

There is no statute specifically protecting such ancient rock formations, but State Rep. Dixon Pitcher, R-Ogden, introduced a bill that would prevent and punish such destruction, the Tribune reported.

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE/VIA YOUTUBE ‘We have modified Goblin Valley,’ a gleeful Dave Hall exclaims in the video after the idiotic stunt last October.

The mindless morons claimed the delicately perched sandstone was an accident waiting for happen.

“The rock needed to come down,” Taylor said in an interview after the incident. “We did something right the wrong way.”

RELATED: BOY SCOUTS KICK OUT UTAH LEADERS WHO TOPPLED GOBLIN ROCK

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE/VIA YOUTUBE The boulder came to rest just below its perch. The men claimed they saved an accident waiting to happen.

Taylor created another headache for himself as the seemingly able-bodied agent of destruction. Just weeks before his rock-shoving stunt, he filed a lawsuit claiming he suffered “debilitating” physical injuries in a 2009 car crash.

Cassie McDonald, the teenage driver targeted in the suit, said Taylor’s back seemed healthy enough in the video.

“I was a little bit surprised that the man who pushed over this 2,000-pound rock formation was suing me for disability,” McDonald told the Deseret News. “I just thought it was interesting. I didn't think he had that much of a back problem."

The original YouTube posting has racked up more than 4.6 million views and about 24,000 comments - most users writing words of hate towards the men not suitable in a family newspaper.

And a park system spokesman said the men did nothing but cause trouble in the aged park.

This has been formed for literally millions of years, and it’s supposed to last for a long time,”Eugene Swalberg told the Deseret News. “It doesn’t need individuals doing the work of Mother Nature.”

sgoldstein@nydailynews.com or follow on Twitter

White people crimes...What you gonna do They are out of control. I bet they were raised by single moms

[Darnell 8,479]

what a set of tardos.

Back in Texas, we were taught -

leave it like you found it.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Tw@ts.

[Danno 1,228]

White people crimes...What you gonna do They are out of control. I bet they were raised by single moms

Yeah typical white guy, trying to make the place better or safer.