In the local article the guy is saying that he is sure if they had gone and found a park ranger and shown him the rock he would have agreed that it wasn’t safe and would have agreed to allow them to push it over.

That assertion is kind of mind-boggling and speaks volumes about the level of intelligence used in their reasoning and that shown in the video. If they actually had found a ranger and managed to get him to agree that the rock was unsafe there is still no way he would have allowed a civilian to destroy the formation. Especially not while the civilian was placing himself in a position at risk of being crushed or maimed.

What any self-respecting park ranger would have told them was “Yeah, this rock is no longer resting on all that much and could become unstable soon. I’ll bring it to the park superintendents attention that we should put a sign in front of it warning people to stay back or perhaps put a wood railing up to keep kids from getting directly below it.”

These guys are supposedly Boy Scout Troop Leaders for goodness sake…what ever happened to “Leave No Trace Behind” when you are out in nature?