The stupidest bunchashit you will read all day... (rock stacking banned in BOULDER?!?!)...

[ghostsinthemachine]

Overzealous police force make it illegal to stack rocks in Boulder County. WTF? -

Boulder has really been going overboard with the unnecessary rules lately. First, there was the controversial e e-cigarette ban that made it so the only place you could smoke a tobacco product in Boulder was ... outside of Boulder. Then, they banned dispensary coupons. Yes, coupons, the widely known source of evil and immmorality. You read that right.

And now, Boulder has extended its 1984-style government reach even further into the personal lives of its people by ... drum roll, please ... banning the artful stacking of rocks.
- See more at: http://www.therooster.com/blog/overzealous-police-force-make-it-illegal-stack-rocks-boulder-county-wtf#sthash.j6guHYqs.dpuf

Man oh man. Finally someone is taking on the problems of society....

[Cleita]

1. Who the hell is running things? Don't they have an elected city council? eom

[uppityperson]

2. Says on his facebook page that cops were told now to not cite rock balancing.

https://www.facebook.com/GravityGlue?fref=nf

Gravity Glue
May 26 at 11:35am · Edited ·
~~~ PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT!!! ~~~
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UPDATE: holy shit! maybe the support was more than i anticipated!! just got a call from the city attorney personally here in Boulder telling me that he has ordered the police to NOT cite rock balancing under the city codes i mentioned below!!!
WINNING!!!!! grin emoticon
THANK YOU everyone for the overwhelming support!!!! they must have gotten lots of calls!! haha

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ORIGINAL POST:
For the past 7 years i have been creating this art in and around Boulder, Colorado, USA. nearly every day! it has become a huge part and long standing positive aspect of the local spirit of Boulder. I'm not the first, and i definitely will not be the last.
just this weekend, one police officer has decided that balancing rocks in Boulder, Colorado is now illegal, obscurely referencing two city codes about "destruction of public property" in relation to rocks.
Boulder city codes: 5-4-8, and 5-4-2
any local lawyers out there who want to support this case, please feel free to contact me through private message to discuss in more detail.
so now the police have belligerently taken it upon themselves to write tickets and/or arrest ANYONE balancing rocks in Boulder, CO. and specifically threatened to ticket me and/or arrest me if they catch me in the future.
this is where i would really like ALL of your support and better yet, ACTION!
the email for the city council is [e-mail]
i encourage as many people as possible (especially locals) to contact the city council here in Boulder and voice your support for this long standing tradition in Boulder. it is something that an overwhelming portion of the community supports (including several police officers throughout past experience) (also, you should have seen the crowds yesterday at the boulder creek festival absolutely in awe of what i was making) Countless people commented that it was the coolest thing they saw at the entire Boulder Creek Festival. Boulder Creek Events you KNOW what's up!! also Elephant Journal! you know what's up too!
i also call on the
City of Boulder Colorado Government to take immediate action to revise the aforementioned city codes and allow this massively positive activity and long standing past time to continue without risk of police action. if the codes are really to be enforced to their full wording, then technically NO ONE is legally allowed to touch the creek. which is absolutely ridiculous.
I will go as public as necessary to expose this newfound, police-fueled, shortcoming of the City of Boulder.
worst case scenario, i leave Boulder permanently and take a huge positive vibe with me.
thanks to all for such huge support! heart emoticon

[Journeyman]

3. Stacking rocks is illegal in Death Valley. . .

Ran across that tidbit while hiking there earlier this year. I had no problem with it. The intent is to preserve the natural beauty, so anything that disturbs that is forbidden.

Much as I appreciate the patience and artistry required to create these masterpieces, I can understand a desire to restrict it from national parks and other protected regions. Hard, though, to criticize or criminalize those who do it in a mountain stream going through a college town. In my opinion, it kind of enhances the ambiance.

[ghostsinthemachine]

5. That I get...

not this....

[Angry Dragon]

4. Call it part of your religion and you will be okay

[pinboy3niner]

6. Are they taking our rights for granite?

[KamaAina]

9. Of quartz.

[Ron Green]

12. No schist, Sherlock.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

13. Be gneiss!

[frogmarch]

7. Let the rock stackers

perform their "art" with their own rocks, at home. They don't need to eff up protected nature areas.

[fizzgig]

8. there are times i can't take boulder seriously

i get down there a couple, three times a year and sometimes i just want to vomit at the pretentious, privileged people.

[Orrex]

10. Let him who has never stacked rocks cast the first stone or something.

[Romeo.lima333]

11. in utah you get fined for knocking over rock piles

[tblue37]

15. Gorgeous rock sculpturs, amazing talent. I bet he has a special sensitivity to balance and pressure,

like a sixth sense. Also, the video shows that he exercises a zenlike, meditative patience while waiting to sense the precise poit at which gravity, balance and pressure will combine to hold everything together.

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His work should be celebrated, financially supported, and advertised to bring in tourists! Idiot authoritarian cops.


Edited to add link to his website, where even MORE amazing pics of balanced rock sculptures can be found.

http://www.gravityglue.com