On Sunday the Police in Suðurnes district received a report of off-road driving at Kleifarvatn lake in the Reykjanes Geopark. When officers arrived at the scene they found a rental car stuck in the sand by the lake. The area around the vehicle had been torn up by extensive and very determined off-road driving. Someone had clearly been having great fun at the expense of the landscape and vegetation, leaving massive destruction in their wake.
The two men initially attempted to claim they had nothing to do with the destruction left by off-road driving around their stranded vehicle – which was far awa from the road. Their defense was that their only crime was to have gotten their vehicle stuck.
After the officers had talked to the men for a while they finally admitted they had been driving off-road, and that they were responsible for some of the destruction in the vicinity of their vehicle. But they stuck to the story that there had been others at the scene, who had also been engaged in destructive off-road driving, A statement from the Police in Suðurnes district reads.
This is one of the reasons why off-road driving is extremely destructive: The tracks left by one off-roading driver will always act as a magnet on others, encouraging other idiots to tear up the landscape for their pleasure.
On Sunday the Police in Suðurnes district received a report of off-road driving at Kleifarvatn lake in the Reykjanes Geopark. When officers arrived at the scene they found a rental car stuck in the sand by the lake. The area around the vehicle had been torn up by extensive and very determined off-road driving. Someone had clearly been having great fun at the expense of the landscape and vegetation, leaving massive destruction in their wake.
The two men initially attempted to claim they had nothing to do with the destruction left by off-road driving around their stranded vehicle – which was far awa from the road. Their defense was that their only crime was to have gotten their vehicle stuck.
After the officers had talked to the men for a while they finally admitted they had been driving off-road, and that they were responsible for some of the destruction in the vicinity of their vehicle. But they stuck to the story that there had been others at the scene, who had also been engaged in destructive off-road driving, A statement from the Police in Suðurnes district reads.
This is one of the reasons why off-road driving is extremely destructive: The tracks left by one off-roading driver will always act as a magnet on others, encouraging other idiots to tear up the landscape for their pleasure.
