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Save Our Pet Rock

The “Sage Hill Rock” is in trouble. It’s not to blame for the car accidents it’s involved in: it just sits there, surrounded by bright yellow curbs, in the parking lot of a new shopping center. But in just one weekend, three pictures of accidents involving the rock appeared on a Facebook group for the Calgary, Alta., Canada community of Sage Hill. When news hit the group that the rock would soon be gone, however, some protested. “Poor misunderstood rock,” said one user. The rock “has become a part of us,” said group administrator Brangwyn Jones, who also said he didn’t “know how you miss this big rock or how you cut the curb so tight you end up jacked up on the rock.” There is hope, however: “Since it’s become so valued to the community, we’re trying to negotiate having it moved to a different area of the parking lot, where it is safe from vehicles and doesn’t have to resort to rage flipping them,” an employee of a nearby business wrote. (AC/CBC) ...If drivers don’t stop hitting the rock, the community may end up missing it.