This is just wrong

[Radiopeg]

I find vandalism distressing, but this just grinds me.
http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections...-help.html

Peace and long life

[punaticbychoice]

Ignorance.
This equipment is to warn and protect us.
A removal of a part of our early warning system.
Maybe the Pentagon can spare the money for a replacement-
or the PLDC backers.
(Sorry my sarcasm is showing.)

[Carey]

Ignorance????

This also has happened to water quality monitoring buoys on this island, and then there are the acts of vandalism at KAHO, where petroglyphs were vandalized...and ya just gotta wonder "whut up wit dat?"

http://www.khon.com/2013/04/23/petroglyp...ig-island/

[terracore]

The last town I lived in used $200 off-the-shelf game cameras mounted on trees to catch people who were illegally dumping in remote locations. They have models that work for over a year without having to replace the batteries and if within cell range, can transmit the pictures that they take. Some more expensive models can detect if somebody is trying to steal them and transmit video of their own theft.

Maybe if they are good for giving out $100 littering citations, such technology can be used to protect $100k seismic equipment. Sad that it's come to something like that...

http://www.adn.com/2012/06/25/2519654/ju...rbugs.html

[punaticbychoice]

Carey:
sometimes it is ignorance, sometimes it is like the instances of copper wire theft on Oahu that we saw in the not too distant past.
But ignorance and lack of concern for what things represent to other people and society almost always play a role. (No Aloha?)

[Carey]

And there was even more solar system damage in Puna... the new remodel at McKenzie also was hit - more than $5K in damage - sounds a lot like there is a trend of self interested punks-

http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/solar-pv...olute=true

ADDED todays paper highlights what the PV thefts of the volcano monitoring equipment has meant, the East Rift Zone now has only a very few instrument that were not vandalized, and according to the article " very little left to detect change in volcanic activity right in that area" - that area is lower Puna....along the East Rift Zone....

The actions of a very few who only thought of themselves has now left a large population of Puna with far less detection.... in a time when the USGS has had to take cuts in their budget....

[Rob Tucker]

I have been amazed that thieves have, in the past, stolen the solar panels from tsunami warning buoys a couple hundred miles out at sea. Not teenagers doing that I suppose.... really remarkable.

[microage97]

Just bad karma. I hate to wish ill on anyone, but someone better smarten up...