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Defendants unmasked in court face cost of damage for allegedly felling famous 150-year-old tree (apnews.com)

submitted 6 months ago by ZeroCool to c/treehuggers

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[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Imagine being an adult and thinking this is an acceptable thing to do. Why are there so many shitheads in the world?

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Covid didn't do enough

[–] ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

[–] LibertyLizard 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So we still don’t know what the motive was?

[–] ZeroCool 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Nope, as far as I'm aware a motive hasn't been made public. But I'm willing to chalk it up to some people just being miserable jerks.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

chock it up

Chalk it up?

[–] LibertyLizard 3 points 6 months ago

Miserable jerks are definitely way more common than they should be but cutting a tree is a lot of work. It’s hard to believe they didn’t have some kind of motive beyond just stirring up shit. Maybe we’ll find out during or after the trial.

[–] toothpicks 3 points 6 months ago

Someone just ran over a fully grown tree on my street corner and I'm pissed

[+] maculata@aussie.zone -19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Edit: Oh shit! SORRY! I looked at the little picture on my phone and truly didn’t see the balaclavas until I just opened the article up on a large PC screen now!

I’ll leave up my mistake (below) as a testament to my poor eyesight.

TBH I never expected the perps to be black. It will quite interesting to unpack their motives and put it into some historical perspective regarding purposeful, inadvertent or ignorant destruction by European colonial invaders in, uh… everywhere else in the world.

[–] ZeroCool 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

TBH I never expected the perps to be black. It will quite interesting to unpack their motives and put it into some historical perspective regarding purposeful, inadvertent or ignorant destruction by European colonial invaders in, uh… everywhere else in the world.

Wanna know how I know you only glanced at the picture?

[–] maculata@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My little phone didn’t have the pixels to show the picture properly.

I’ve owned up to my mistake above.

And yes now that I look closer I can see their hands. Oops.