Quick! The glaciers are disappearing faster than ever before -- so before they're gone completely, don't miss your chance to spray paint them with graffiti!At this point you may be asking yourself: "Huh? What kind of dumbass would want to tag an enormous chunk of disappearing ice?" This kind of dumbass, apparently.
Jan Philip Scharbert, a German tourist, was photographed adding his personal touch to the Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand. Fortunately, those photographs led to his arrest.
The silver lining, however, is that after he was apprehended the little eco-tagger was sentenced to clean up his unfortunate art project. And what's even better, is that during the 1 1/2 days it took Scharbert to undue his handiwork, he was "severely dressed down" (which I can only assume means: "continually lambasted with expletives") by passing glacier guides and tourists. Take that!
So now the glacier is as good as new, and Scharbert is back in Germany. With any luck, his future artistic endeavors will be restricted to illegibly funky bubble-letters on train cars and amorous exclamations on highway overpasses.
[via BoingBoing]
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