Throwback to #thatpnwrock 📷: @_mintken_

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The Duckbill, an Instagram-famous sandstone formation at Oregon's Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area, has been toppled by vandals, according a recently-released video.

Oregon Parks officials had assumed last-week's collapse of the formation, also known as Pedestal Rock, was due to erosion or weather, but onlooker David Kalas captured this video of a handful of people shoving the rock. One of the group yelled "Got 'em" when it fell and crumbled to pieces.

The group were apparently avenging a friend's broken leg. Kalas told KATU News:

"I asked them, you know, why they knocked the rock down, and the reply I got was: their buddy broke their leg earlier because of that rock," Kalas said. "They basically told me themselves that it was a safety hazard, and that they did the world or Oregon a favor."

Thanks, guys. Appreciate the vigilantism.

The buddy of these dipshits would not have been the first injury at Cape Kiwanda. Six people have died at the park in the past two years, and there have been numerous injuries. The Duckbill was in a section of the Cape that had been fenced off as a safety hazard, due to the unstable sandstone, high winds and quick-rising ocean water. It makes for a quick-changing, dangerous situation, but that doesn't stop lovers and wannabe yogis from climbing through the fence to grab a photo.

Oregon Live is reporting that police are currently investigating the vandalism, and that the alleged perpetrators could be fined at least $435 for destroying the 7-foot tall pedestal.

Meanwhile, Instagram is flooded with tributes to #thatpnwrock from the many, many people who ignored the warnings and climbed over the barrier to pose on top of it.


RIP #thatpnwrock 😢💣 pc: @ck_mintken

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