It was awesome. It was awesome! I mighta made a good lawyer. In cross-examination the prosecution was over-ruled ten times (or more, I stopped counting at some point). And rangers equivocated. I don't blame those guys. We're all in this together, right?
If you don't know the story, the two links below, the first tells the story, the second has pictures.
Story: http://www.dailykos.com/...
Pictures: http://www.dailykos.com/...
They did tear it down.
The federal government got shut down on the charge of disturbing a "historic plane wreck." The thing isn't even registered, even though the prosecution was built on that. Then they had to resort to the notion it wasn't dangerous the way it was. The prosecution got the second ranger to testify that it was actually more dangerous because kids might try and play on it. I got up there, and went, "Wait a minute: we've already established it's dangerous material. You're telling me a well marked point where hundreds of pieces of hazardous material are gathered is more dangerous than those hundreds of pieces spread hidden in grass over a large field?"
I was found guilty of building a structure without permission, and of course tampering (you can't have a structure without tampering :) (Update: actually, you could: you could make a structure out of raw materials.)
Maybe I'll write another diary of the day (the rangers walked into the same restaurant I was compiling pages, before the trial).
Again, my loving thanks to Barb for the photos.