What is wrong with people?

[Ystranc]

Sycamore Gap: Boy, 16, arrested after Hadrian's Wall tree felled

The Sycamore Gap tree was cut down overnight in what police believe was an act of vandalism.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[1 shot willie]

Beggars belief......have no words

 

[Joecole]

Sycamore Gap: Boy, 16, arrested after Hadrian's Wall tree felled

The Sycamore Gap tree was cut down overnight in what police believe was an act of vandalism.

www.bbc.co.uk

Gaol the little b*stard who has been charged with cutting it down. About a million years ago during my time in the military I walked past that tree doing something we called Hadrian's Hike

 

[G1ZmO]

Does anyone else think this is strange?
A 16 year old boy carries a chainsaw at least 550m from the nearest road (and presumably he's not a driver) during the night to cut the tree down?
Bizarre.

 

[Ystranc]

Extremely strange..there is no real explanation though, apart from deliberate vandalism.

 

[Joecole]

Does anyone else think this is strange?
A 16 year old boy carries a chainsaw at least 550m from the nearest road (and presumably he's not a driver) during the night to cut the tree down?
Bizarre.

Good afternoon Paul, I guess there's more to come out about this incident that hasn't yet been released

 

[Ark79]

It’s a strange one for sure…

 

[1 shot willie]

Apparently the Police are Stumped.....rumour has it they are calling in Special Branch to help with the investigation.

 

[Ystranc]

Apparently the Police are Stumped.....rumour has it they are calling in Special Branch to help with the investigation.

I’m sure they’ll root out the culprit, they can’t leaf them to get away with it.

 

[Big Red]

I’m sure they will go out on a limb to sort this out, let’s hope the perpetrator turns over a new leaf when he twigs.

 

[1 shot willie]

Let's hope they are not Barking up the wrong tree by accusing the youngster......that would Knot be good.

We should not be taking the Pith really .....its no oaking matter

 

[Ark79]

Am not sure what’s worse, these puns or the crime we really have to root out the answer before it blossoms out of control

 

[Ystranc]

I conseed, when it comes to punning Bill holds the crown

 

[Baytree]

I've just added a load of sycamore logs to my wood store. Probably best not to shout about that down the pub or on social media...

 

[Ystranc]

I've just added a load of sycamore logs to my wood store. Probably best not to shout about that down the pub or on social media...

Don’t get me wrong, it’s useful timber and good firewood, just not that particular tree.

 

[Gulfalan67]

Glad you blokes aren’t beating around the bush.

My wife asks why that tree wasnt heritage listed? She remembers it well from her walk along the wall.

I’d be surprised at a 16 year old chaining a big tree like that in this day and age. Not unless the chain came in the form of an iPhone App.

What a tragedy

Alan

 

[Ystranc]

Glad you blokes aren’t beating around the bush.

My wife asks why that tree wasnt heritage listed? She remembers it well from her walk along the wall.

I’d be surprised at a 16 year old chaining a big tree like that in this day and age. Not unless the chain came in the form of an iPhone App.

What a tragedy

Alan

I think it was on land owned by the National Trust and was within the Northumbria National Park, that really should have been enough protection. I can’t even guess at what motivated a sixteen year old to destroy it.

 

[Baytree]

I'm not in any way trying to diminish what is an act of vandalism but I don't think any listing or preservation order would have stopped this. And to be fair while we moan about teenagers these days ( I own one myself) they're not all wimpy and hopeless and I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility fora 16 year old to do this. I'm not quite a teenager but my father taught me how to use a chainsaw before I was 16 although of course he didn't try to instil the idea of wanton vandalism.
There seems to be a lot of focus on this one single tree but how many have been lost because of things like HS2 with much less uproar. Also from what I've read this tree wasn't originally alone , it was one of a number planted by a farmer supposedly at the end of the 18th century but inbetween the rest have been felled. With any luck the stump will start to shoot and the tree as such won't be gone forever even if it will take a while to get close to what it was.

 

[1 shot willie]

This could be called an act of wanton vandalism

plymouth city centre trees felled

 

[Ystranc]

This could be called an act of wanton vandalism

plymouth city centre trees felled

Very true Bill, also done sneakily overnight because they knew it was wrong.