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I proposed my wife in front of the "original" Geyser (actually the functioning one right next to it) in Iceland. The night we posted a photo a friend of mine emailed me asking if I was the a7le who threw the red paint into the Geyser. I didn't know what he was talking about, until I checked the news. Turns out an hour after we left, some "artist" decided that a pink geyser is going to be his art [0].

While I cannot resist wondering about the possibility of proposing in front of a pink Geysir ... still ... what the f4k is wrong with people?

[0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3055145/Chilean-arti...




Better news source: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-32496258

He was ultimately acquitted on a technicality: http://icelandreview.com/news/2016/07/06/pink-geyser-project...

Some valid points were raised in the man's defense (e.g. the food coloring dissipated fairly quickly) though I can't say I approve.

On a side note, it seems any mention of the controversy has been scrubbed from his Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Evaristti


Details have been removed from the Wikipedia page?


The original having been mostly blocked by people throwing rocks in it to make it "go off" IIRC

I was in Iceland in 2000 (ish) and the original was occasionally doing its thing then, but not well




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