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Bloody drongo!

Post by Fuzz » 26th Feb, '08, 09:02

[smilie=mad.gif] From stuff.co.nz

Glacier tagger gets frosty treatment
The Press | Tuesday, 26 February 2008

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GOTCHA: English tourists managed to photograph Jan Philip Scharbert as he tagged rock walls leading up to the glacier terminal and even the glacier ice.


A German backpacker has been caught spraying graffiti on the rocks and ice face at Franz Josef Glacier.


Police said English tourists managed to photograph Jan Philip Scharbert on Thursday as he tagged rock walls leading up to the glacier terminal and even the glacier ice.

Guides removed the glacier tagging with their ice axes, and a description of the offender was given to Conservation Department staff, who reported to police early the next morning that he was waiting to get on a bus heading out of town.

Constable Paul Gurney said police apprehended Scharbert, 28, from Munich, as he was getting on the bus. He was arrested and ordered to clean up his graffiti, under DOC supervision.

Mr Gurney said it took Scharbert 1½ days to clean up his handiwork, during which he was severely dressed down by passing glacier guides and tourists.

Police said DOC was satisfied with his repair job, meaning he escaped a wilful damage charge and left Franz Josef "in one piece".

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Re: Bloody drongo!

Post by Morrolan » 26th Feb, '08, 10:29

what a tit. they should make him eat his spray paint.

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Re: Bloody drongo!

Post by FurBaby » 26th Feb, '08, 11:18

they should stuff a spray can up his arse and light it :evil:

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Re: Bloody drongo!

Post by Burbage » 26th Feb, '08, 14:43

What does a "glacier guide" do?

Ladies and Gentlemen. This is a glacier. Thank you for your attention.

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Re: Bloody drongo!

Post by Fat Bob » 26th Feb, '08, 14:46

I reckon he sits on front of the glacier and tells it where to go.

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Re: Bloody drongo!

Post by Fuzz » 26th Feb, '08, 16:09

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If you've been to Franz Josef, you'd know that you need to walk for a while from the car park before you reach the glacier face (the glacier had retreated a couple of kms in recent times). There are some guided walking tours as well, if I can remember. Visited both Franz Josef and Fox glaciers in 2001.

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Re: Bloody drongo!

Post by BFG » 26th Feb, '08, 16:26

I like Adipose Robert's answer best...
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