Two of the men, who were leading a group of teenage Boy Scouts on a trip, said the top of the rock formation was loose and they feared it was dangerous.
"This is about saving lives," Dave Hall, who shot the video, told The Associated Press on Friday. "One rock at a time."
The rock formation at Goblin Valley State Park is about 170 million years old, Utah State Parks spokesman Eugene Swalberg said. The central Utah park is dotted with thousands of the eerie, mushroom-shaped sandstone formations.
In a video shot last Friday and posted on Facebook, Glenn Taylor of Highland can be seen wedging himself between a formation and a boulder to knock a large rock off the formation's top. Taylor and his two companions can then be seen cheering, high-fiving and dancing....
Hall, who also is a scoutmaster from Highland, said some of their Scouts were jumping on the structures and they noticed a large boulder atop one of them was loose.
"My conscience won't let me walk away knowing that kids could die," Hall said.
While safety was their motivation, Hall said, they reacted with high-fives and cheers in the video because of the adrenaline that came with what he described as a "crazy, exciting moment." http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Charges-possible-for-toppled-ancient-Utah-rock-4907031.php
Let's say they contacted government workers and the result would have been one of three options.
1. They leave the rock alone and weight for it to kill someone.
2. They would have knocked over the rock themselves.
3. The government workers would have spent $100,000's of dollars fixing the rock so it wouldn't move.
So , in the end the Scouts did their good deed and solved a problem the government workers were incapable of doing.
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