Christchurch Earthquake Reveals Time Capsules in Toppled Statue

See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2274791

As I said there, I agree that this is interesting, but I think it's just as interesting to a wide audience, and has nothing specific to hackers or hackery. For that reason I feel it's off-topic for HN. The guidelines say:

    Off-Topic: ... If they'd cover it on TV news,
                   it's probably off-topic.

In particular, I've seen the same story from several sources now, and hence I feel that it's not specific enough for HN.