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Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
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Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Why would a 16 year old be in a situation to need a chainsaw but not have anyone older to purchase it for them?
Why would a legal system set out a bunch of laws categorizing age limits for various objects? And laws penalizing people who don't secure their chainsaws in gun cabinets, for that matter.
Will they be allowed hand saws? Hammers? Chefs knives? Dremels?
Besides, 16 is old enough to drive and hold a job in lots of places.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#20360 Yo man has been arrested it seems
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#204Can 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…
Update: BASTARDS. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66966187
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the meaning of all of this? Is this just anti-social behavior seeping into city councils? Is there some political motive here?
"If you want to destroy the spirit of a country don't kill its people, burn its forests, fell the trees, and destroy its prized cultural artifacts" The oldest trick in the book of war
What confusing grammar.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Hs2 needlessly cut down thousands of ancient oaks That depends whether you agree that HS2 is justified. HS2 would argue that the loss to humanity/UK of cutting down those ancient oaks is worth it due to the benefits of HS2. Whereas cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree benefited no one.
I don’t think there are any benefits, it’s cancelled (or about to be)
Nonsense, it's not cancelled and cancelling it would be absolutely ridiculous... HS2 is pretty critical in creating capacity since the WCML is basically at full capacity. HS2 is important for taking long distance passenger trains off the WCML to allow that to be used for more freight and shorter distance regional trips.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#207'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'.
The cut is too straight and flat to be an amateur with a chainsaw. A cheapo chainsaw wouldn't be long enough to do this without needing to go in from both sides. There is also a paint line along the cut. Who paints along the line they're about to cut if they're just cutting down a tree?
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Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it's just a tree. A new tree can grow. The Philistine instagrammers will be disappointed. So sad. It's not a Roman tree. A new tree literally grows (on) trees.
This is not about the instagrammers, it is about respect for heritage sites.
Re: Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'
#209Walter Renwick, a 69 Yo retiree who lives on Plankey Mill Farm just 8 miles from the gap, was arrested on Friday.
The farm is owned by the Jesuits. He directed an unauthorized campsite on the farm. National Trust owns an adjacent property to the campsite.
Over a number of years, the Jesuits, have received complaints from both the local council and the National Trust about the unsocial behavior of several campers, especially in 2020.
This lead to him being evicted in July 2023, after a 15 years grace period given from the Jesuits to find a new home [1].
Local rumors had linked him with the tree felling, because of his former profession of lumberjack, and as revenge by been evicted from his home.
He said that he didn't do it. "It makes it sound like me, doesn't it, because it was a good cut. It was dark obviously but it was a lovely moonlit night... the cut was brilliant. You can tell a good lumberjack by the way he cuts a tree down. I haven't seen the cut obviously, but I have seen it on the computer" [2].
Maybe it was him or maybe not, but he had the skills, the opportunity, and the motivation.
[1] https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1788020/Jesuits-evicting-t...
[2] https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/sycamore-gap-lumberjack-walter-re...