Tree vandals make the news

[Paul Barton]

Sandbanks residents kill trees to create lucrative harbour views - Times Online

 

[Tommy_B]

Not good at all..... Just cause you have money, doesn't make you any less of a crook....

 

I think we should have an Arbtalk whip round and buy them some replacements. Leylandii anyone???

[Paul Barton]

There are some cracking comments at the end of the article. Apparently in Australia the authorities erect a big old billboard sign that reads "this sign replaces vandalised trees and will be removed once newly planted trees have grown to replace the damaged trees"

 

That way the perpetrators don't enjoy the benefit of the views opened up by the lost tree.

[tommer9]

I grew up not far from there, and regularly passed through on the way to the chainferry across the mouth of poole harbour (incidently the largest natural harbour in the world). It is a ghetto for the superrich. Unfortunately they also happen to be new money in general which just means that they are completely full of self importance and an overblown sense of self worth. They display all the characteristics of the lower class scum that they truly are, themselves misunderstanding the fact that wealth has NOTHING to do with class, and having a range rover sport just makes you look like a rich chav. It also seems to imply -in their view- a sense that they have some sort of inherent power and exclusion from the rules of society........parallels that can be drawn with the sort of kids that hang around on estates in town at night........they too believe that vandalsim is abn acceptable practise and that a range rover sport/ BMW x5 is one of life's goals.

 

Tossers.

[alex_m]

one of the comments..... what a toss pot.

 

leon de graff wrote:

AG. Live your own life, because someone designates a tree as protected doesnt mean they are right and you wrong. Most of these trees were planted 140 years ago by the then land owners, they are not native to the area. The natural state of the area is heather, gorse and broom. I am surprised as an environmentalist that you do not want it returned to that state. Also Panorama road is not in danger from erosion. My problem is with an unelected jobsworth designating every tree over a certain size as protected. Why?

[Luke Quenby]

There are some cracking comments at the end of the article. Apparently in Australia the authorities erect a big old billboard sign that reads "this sign replaces vandalised trees and will be removed once newly planted trees have grown to replace the damaged trees"

 

That way the perpetrators don't enjoy the benefit of the views opened up by the lost tree.

 

Definatley! No amount of arrogance or money (they seem to go hand in hand) should let these fools get away with this

[testcricket01]

should have fined them more than £7,500 if you ask me

[TArrryan]

how about they count the tree rings and give them a jail sentence equal to that, without parole of course. or simply call it £1000 fine a ring

[High Scale]

There are some cracking comments at the end of the article. Apparently in Australia the authorities erect a big old billboard sign that reads "this sign replaces vandalised trees and will be removed once newly planted trees have grown to replace the damaged trees"

 

That way the perpetrators don't enjoy the benefit of the views opened up by the lost tree.

 

Yeah, Mosman council put screens (Like sails) in trees that were poisoned for harbour views when I was working there.

[Mark Bolam]

Noosa, Queensland, 2005.

 

Load of dead trees, still standing, with a HUGE billboard behind them reading something like -

 

These trees were illegally poisoned to obtain a sea view. It didn't work.

 

Classic.