Where did he get a hold of the vodka?
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"Finn who damaged Easter Island statue to leave
Tourist pays $17,000 fine, apologizes for chipping earlobe off ancient
Moai
Marko Kulji removed part of the earlobe from the moai, a monolithic
human figure carved from rock, located at the A****na beach, on the
Easter Island."
"updated 2:21 a.m. PT, Wed., April. 9, 2008
SANTIAGO, Chile - A Finnish tourist who chipped an earlobe off an
ancient Moai on Easter Island is being allowed to go home after paying
a US$17,000 fine and agreeing not to return for three years, police
said Tuesday.
Marko Kulju, 26, deposited the money into a bank account overseen by
the court that handled his case, the Easter Island prosecutor's office
said in a statement.
At prosecutors' request, Kulju also wrote a public apology for
damaging the figure, one of 400 statues carved out of volcanic rock
between 400 and 1,000 years ago to represent deceased ancestors. The
statues are protected by Chilean law."
"Kulju was taken into custody after being caught by a local Rapanui
woman two weeks ago trying to steal a piece of the Moai's ear as a
souvenir. The woman re****ted him to police on the South Pacific
island.
Kulju called his attempted theft "the worst mistake of my life," in
comments published by the Santiago daily newspaper La Tercera in its
online edition Tuesday.
It was not clear exactly when he planned to leave the island, a
Chilean territory."
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