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Squamish, British Columbia — <\/span>Authorities in British Columbia urged people to stay away from a cliff above a highway in the Canadian province, where a red Volkswagen Beetle shell was suspended in an apparent prank by engineering students.<\/p>\n BC Parks is working to remove the beetle and hopes to do so within a week, the province’s environment ministry said in a statement Monday. It says the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and park rangers have been asked to investigate.<\/p>\n The car’s shell appeared last week on a cliff above Highway 99 in Squamish, British Columbia, with a large “E” written on its roof, indicating that the University of British Columbia engineering student was carrying on the tradition of placing Beetle shells in difficult locations.<\/p>\n In 2009, a beetle fell from the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge, and Vancouver police arrested five students in an unsuccessful attempt to suspend it.<\/p>\n A university spokesperson did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. <\/p>\n Squamish Mayor Armond Hurford said the area around the Stawamus Chief rock formation is a “sacred place” with deep cultural meaning for the Squamish Nation.<\/p>\n He said the area is also popular with hikers and climbers and “what felt like an innocent prank” had impacted the community.<\/p>\n “This is an area that deserves respect and that was not the case here,” Harford said in the statement. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Squamish, British Columbia — Authorities in British Columbia urged people to stay away from a cliff above a highway in the Canadian province, where a red Volkswagen Beetle shell was suspended in an apparent prank by engineering students. BC Parks is working to remove the beetle and hopes to do so within a week, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[7580,2280,1066,8913,15048,1068,14617,6486,170],"class_list":{"0":"post-45365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-apparent","9":"tag-british","10":"tag-car","11":"tag-circle","12":"tag-columbia","13":"tag-highway","14":"tag-hung","15":"tag-joke","16":"tag-rock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45367,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45365\/revisions\/45367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}