When Paradise Files a Police Report: The Global Aftershocks of Hopena Pokipala’s Rental-Jeep Tree Hug
HOPENA POKIPALA, MAUI — Somewhere between the ninth Mai Tai and the tenth apology for colonialism, a rented Jeep Wrangler found itself intimately reacquainted with a century-old banyan tree. The tree, unmoved by either tourism or irony, remains upright; the Jeep, less so. Thus was born the “hopena pokipala car accident,” a phrase now ricocheting…