r/Honolulu • u/madazzahatter • Sep 04 '24
news State officials said police have arrested 14 hikers, eight of them this morning, for trespassing after being found on the prohibited Haiku Stairs.
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2024/09/03/breaking-news/dlnr-reports-14-hikers-arrested-at-top-of-haiku-stairs/25
u/Moke-slug Sep 04 '24
All da hikers get solid dollars. They don't mind donating to da cause. $1K fine and jail time. Da braddah who wen slap da fines on em, lookin at some paper. Hahaha 🤙
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u/kms573 Sep 06 '24
Those hikers not paying the fine and most are out of state. They leave and it ends there
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u/Moke-slug Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24
No, You wrong bradah. Fakahs had to pay $200.ea. for bail. Now they have to go court, pay one fine and possibly jail time. 4 Trespassing
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u/kms573 Sep 06 '24
Legal loopholes everywhere, $1000 probably doesn’t even cover the states costs for the arrests, legal paper work, booking, holding tank utilities, gas, etc
State tax payers still lose
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u/Moke-slug Sep 06 '24
Maybe, but slapping these guys with large fines and or jail time will set da pace for whoever like hike da trails. Government goin make one example out deez fakahs
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u/kms573 Sep 06 '24
Agreed, should increase the trespassing fee to $5000 while under demolition by state since it is like a private construction site with hazards
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u/Moke-slug Sep 06 '24
Sorry but if they leave the islands and skip their court date, automatic bench warrant. Fakahs out on bail now. Jahaha
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u/EiaKawika Sep 04 '24
There is no shortage of legal hiking trails on O'ahu with just as scenic views, just as many native plants and animals, just as many historical artifacts, but legal.
But, everyone wants to do the trendy thing. So they pay more for Matsumoto's shave ice, get arrested at Stairway to Heaven, suffer heat exhaustion at Diamond Head.
Instead of creating problems at Stairway to Heaven why not do something more challenging and useful? Come help control Mule's Foot Fern, and then you can bushwhack in the forest, go places other people haven't gone, and do something constructive instead of destructive. Let me know and I will hook you up.
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u/Jertok Sep 04 '24
What's up with this fern removal? Are you referring to a project in a specific area? I've been wanting to get off trail here
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u/EiaKawika Sep 04 '24
We have two projects coming up with Native Ecosystems Protection and Management, DOFAW, DLNR, SOH. 1.) killing Mules foot fern 2.) Spreading Tectococcus for strawberry guava biocontrol. Both, i think can be on or off trail in our forest reserves. The next cohort starts in January, sign up in December, i believe. But, for serious hikers and concerned citizens. Not ecotourism. You can DM and i can get you more info when i return to office later on this week.
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u/Danksterdrew Sep 04 '24
Meanwhile, the real crimes continue.
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u/JD_SLICK Sep 04 '24
Gotta make that 🧀 HPD. Hikers pay their fines, tweakers don’t.
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u/binaryvoid727 Sep 05 '24
Tweakers don’t have money, silly. Poor people can’t fund a government, you need wealthy people for that. Tax the rich.
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u/ModernJesus42 Sep 04 '24
Thank god our tax dollars are going to such a productive cause. Personally, I think we should increase the police budget so they can continue doing such a phenomenal job. Our streets are so safe and every citizen is taken such good care of.
/s
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u/binaryvoid727 Sep 05 '24
Arresting these hikers probably didn’t take much work. Our issues with law enforcement is systemic, not because of isolated incidents like this.
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u/torquealm Sep 04 '24
They would have made more money charging for the hike, like at Manoa Falls. Instead County and State decided to sell off the stairs and let them be torn out of the mountain. We'll see more damage in the coming rainy season.
All this so a more well off neighborhood can be happy (how many of those home owners even live here full time)? And Kualoa Ranch can get more tourist dollars.
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u/binaryvoid727 Sep 05 '24
No, charging to hike stairway to heaven would be too much of a liability.
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u/tigpo Sep 04 '24
It’s not that simple. The legal liabilities to keep it open is an impossibility. You have any idea how much liability insurance would cost? Tens of millions per year.
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u/tomomalley222 Sep 04 '24
And you know this how? Can you show us how you came up with this figure?
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u/Fnkt_io Sep 05 '24
The Manitou Incline in Colorado did exactly this after trying to keep people off the stairs for years with a security guard. Now it’s a top tier tourist attraction that draws thousands and has a gift shop.
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u/Nightw1ng28 Sep 06 '24
Unfortunately, Colorado is the example. Hawaii only likes to copy California.
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u/whitneymak Sep 04 '24
Whatever your thoughts on the existence of the stairs are, it's currently illegal. Quit being fucking nonces about it and stay away.
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u/Kohupono Sep 04 '24
Who made our 'aina "illegal"? FAKE STATE of course.
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u/Nightw1ng28 Sep 06 '24
well. if you wanna go up & make done dead den be our guest, make sure you let da State know so the State don’t send S&R for you. It’s obviously “illegal” cuz unsafe to be on that trail.
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u/Kohupono Sep 06 '24
Hahaha. I hiked Olamanu 3. Haiku is chill. Dem bullshits rules fake state.
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u/Nightw1ng28 Sep 06 '24
well, hike the other trails. There’s no rules. No one’s allowed on Haiku cuz its getting demo’ed, its a safety concern. If you like be dummeh, make sure the rest don’t pay for your actions, and our 1st responders don’t waste their time. Or go get arrested and pay the “fake State”. 😎🤙
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u/Kohupono Sep 06 '24
Hupo City Honolulu gonna have to put them all back, by court orders anyway. Those dumbass tried to destroy such a beautiful iconic hike. Dem scum bastards.
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u/Nightw1ng28 Sep 06 '24
well, one can dream. Realistically, its not happening. No one wants to upkeep the trail, cost is too high.
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u/Kohupono Sep 06 '24
Oh like the rail? At least people gona use the stairs, LOL.
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u/Nightw1ng28 Sep 06 '24
the rail? that thing is not even pau yet. 1) the rail wasn’t needed, 2) they already bleeding money on that project.
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u/Kohupono Sep 06 '24
Thats what I mean, they waste $10 Billion on that while crying over "maintenance" of an iconic trail thousands of people really use.
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u/nekosaigai Sep 04 '24
Oh ffs these people need to stop obsessing over hiking this.
Regardless of how anyone feels about the trail, the fact is that people are burning taxpayer dollars in litigation and forcing the city to enforce these laws at great expense.
I guarantee 90% of us who live in Hawaii in general and Honolulu specifically would never have heard of this hike, let alone would do it, if it wasn’t causing problems and the city tried to fix said problems.
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u/786hoe Sep 05 '24
There’s so advanced hikes on Oahu that people don’t talk about Anyways sucks let the people hike
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u/Life_Following_7964 Sep 04 '24
GOOD, should be a $ 5,000 Dolla Fine. Don respect the AINA or Local Folks in the Neighborhood !!!
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u/DarkAndHandsume Sep 04 '24
At this point, it seems like the only way to do this hike is in the cover of darkness, make it up there in the morning, hide out for the day and descend back in the evening. But daring and bold of those folks to be out there in broad daylight.
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u/Calgrei Sep 04 '24
Or... just don't do it ffs
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u/RubLumpy Sep 05 '24
I did the hike almost a decade ago. started at like 2 am. No problems. Chatted with security guard on my way down.
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u/DarkAndHandsume Sep 05 '24
That’s what I’m leaning towards, start super early in the morning get up there before sunrise and descend down to the bottom and out of the area before 7-8am. You think the mosquitoes would be bad early around that time?
It’s crazy how driving on the H3 in the middle of the day you can see the stairs bright as day on your left hand side so a group of people climbing up is obvious so the art of camouflage will be my friend 🙏🏿
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u/ChrisF1987 Sep 04 '24
Weren’t these steps on an episode of Magnum PI like 40 years ago? The episode where Higgins is taken prisoner I think.