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A boy has been arrested now: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/28/boy-16-arres...
Question 2: Should a 16 year old be able to get a chainsaw.
No. In the UK, it should be illegal for 16 year olds to get their hands on anything more than a dull crayon.
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more or less, a tree is highly beneficial to the environment, it takes a long time to replace it (10+ years for that size, which is important for many other species, if only it manage to grow back), a human is not often beneficial on the other side we could compare human and an insect even, or a human and a whale, it's not really about size
When I was a lifeguard as a kid, I once arrived at the pool to find thousands of flies dead, floating on the surface. I thought to myself, "If these flies were humans, this place would be a battlefield," and went on with skimming the pool.
I truely love flies, many beautiful species in trees, extremely useful and evolved insect
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Question 2: Should a 16 year old be able to get a chainsaw.
> Question 2: Should a 16 year old be able to get a chainsaw. No. In the UK, it should be illegal for 16 year olds to get their hands on anything more than a dull crayon.
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Highly unlikely, that can happen in a dense forest with unmarked trees but this is controlled land and there is only the one tree there in that particular setting. Also: then the tree would have been stripped and removed. Someone just cut it down and ran off.
Unless this particular tree has an identifier of SYT-786B, and tree SYT-7868 was slated for felling, in which case this could have been an error, although you'd expect someone to have double-checked given the prominence of this specific tree.
Can I just say this: BASTARD. What kind of bastard destroys such a thing of natural beauty? This bastard is not alone, there are other bastards out there. For example, Sheffield council: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/06/sheffield-ci... and Plymouth council: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-64961358 and this guy: https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/19660776.northwood-ma... and especially t…
https://www.chicagotribune.com/midwest/ct-madison-arboretum-...
Can I just say this: BASTARD. What kind of bastard destroys such a thing of natural beauty? This bastard is not alone, there are other bastards out there. For example, Sheffield council: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/06/sheffield-ci... and Plymouth council: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-64961358 and this guy: https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/19660776.northwood-ma... and especially t…
I wonder how much we could bill for that wood
Can I just say this: BASTARD. What kind of bastard destroys such a thing of natural beauty? This bastard is not alone, there are other bastards out there. For example, Sheffield council: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/06/sheffield-ci... and Plymouth council: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-64961358 and this guy: https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/19660776.northwood-ma... and especially t…
What is the meaning of all of this? Is this just anti-social behavior seeping into city councils? Is there some political motive here?
The oldest trick in the book of war
'we have reason to believe it was deliberately felled' One look at the base of that trunk and I think you can upgrade that to 'we know it was deliberately felled'.
A boy has been arrested now: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/28/boy-16-arres...
Can you put it back together? I mean normally you wouldn't even try, but if you cut a tree like that and stick the two halves back together and support it, could it remain alive? I know you can graft branches ...
The tree will regrow from the basis and grow fast for a while, but its health is doomed forever, will be also very vulnerable to cattle and wind (hanging forever from a hollowed trunk). nobody alive will see a 300 Yo healthy tree here anymore.
Acer pseudoplatanus has a semi-soft wood. That fact is relevant to investigate if the Satan's little tool needed help or not. Doing the same with an oak would be much more difficult for an adolescent.
My bet is that there was a team here, and the boy role was to be chewed by the police as a bait. Knowing it or not. The intellectual author could be in a different country by now.