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I walked Hadrian's Wall a few years ago in a very hot (for the UK) summer, and there were very few places some days to get shade and have a rest.
The tree provided lovely shade and lots of people chose to sit there to relax, cool down, and have a drink.
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That’s the expected British understatement, it’s just how the police communicates there.
I think it's the correct terminology here. The police believe and suspect, the court try and prove. Arrests are always made 'on suspicion of'.
The the judge, judges.
Well that's how it's 'supposed' to work.
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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.
Can we say the same statement with human instead of tree?
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If it's found they felled the tree then they're in a lot of trouble.
Sadly it would be pretty hard to pin this on them. Farmers and field owners get away with almost anything in the UK. Look at the gorse fires or the state of Lough Neagh.
If it gets in the newspapers etc, then it's suddenly in their interests to do something.
DNA samples will be getting taken as we speak.
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I wonder if such tennant can be evicted.
If it's found they felled the tree then they're in a lot of trouble.
This is more likely a private matter between tenant and landlord - and unless the lease explicitly prohibits the felling of trees, then they haven’t broken their lease agreement.
If it wasn’t the tenant, then at most it’s vandalism, property damage, and a small fine will be the result.
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 ...
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As I touched on in another comment, social media is a disproportionate attractor of travelers for many famous locations around the world, especially for those that are "out of the way". In addition, there is an influx of global middle class with the newly found means to travel. Over a billion people in a generation.
Even in already-popular places I think there is something about “getting the photo” that gives people this kind of tunnel vision where they’ll behave in ways they might not otherwise. It has been noticeable living near and regularly walking/running across the Brooklyn Bridge and through the Front and Washington viewpoint in DUMBO, before and after the rise of Instagram. People are aggressive, selfish, and absolutely…