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[peds]

8 minutes ago, AWarb00 said:

I suspect there's more to this, I'm sure will come to light 

 

Something like the eco zealots trying to prove a point ; 

'well you're up in arms about this one tree , yet you don't mind hundreds be felled for hs2' 

It's a question, isn't it. 

[AWarb00]

19 minutes ago, peds said:

It's a question, isn't it. 

Stalin said

One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic 

[Treerover]

It’s ok, Elon thinks there’s a chance it could be reattached with the right experts potentially ….

[Cosmiccrofter]

10 hours ago, Steven P said:

 

Almost as if there was someone else up there with him (allegedly of course) showing him what to do. 

 

Just a thought, it is quite a bare part of the country, not a lot of people living there, though I can't say for sure and without knowing exactly but I'd be putting a bet on that the lads family farm the land, of close to this spot and have finally been inconvenienced by walkers walking to see this tree for the last time. Just a suspicion. Would also put a bet on his dad driving him up there on a quad bike, mid week when it is quiet for walkers, bad weather coming, and all that

 

Rumours around that said farmer is now en EX tenant of NT.

[sime42]

1 hour ago, Treerover said:

It’s ok, Elon thinks there’s a chance it could be reattached with the right experts potentially ….

Elon showing his firm grasp on reality again there.

[Stere]

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How old was it?

Hundreds of years. There were once other sycamores beside it, which were removed in the past, possibly by gamekeepers. It won Tree of the Year in 2016.

 

Sycamore Gap: History of the centuries-old and famous Northumberland tree that has been deliberately felled

WWW.YORKSHIREPOST.CO.UK

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Sycamore Gap was more than just a tree – it was a symbol of the history of northern England.

 

Maybe the gamekeeper thing was fake news can't find the BBC mention of it now.

 

 

Elon sounds like  a CHAT GPT generated post?

[skc101fc]

14 hours ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

When the kid gets to court for this he is apparently going to identify as a beaver.

We'll still never be able to truly despise him, as the little shit will have his hoody pulled tightly down over his face and be claiming all manner of underage protections, and will only grunt when asked to give his name.

Expose, shame and humiliate rather than give them free absolution to carry on being the turds of society 

[sime42]

21 minutes ago, Stere said:

 

Sycamore Gap: History of the centuries-old and famous Northumberland tree that has been deliberately felled

WWW.YORKSHIREPOST.CO.UK

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Sycamore Gap was more than just a tree – it was a symbol of the history of northern England.

 

Maybe the gamekeeper thing was fake news can't find the BBC mention of it now.

 

 

Elon sounds like  a CHAT GPT generated post?

Yeah, i think you might be right, everything was a bit too generic in that post.

What a world we live in now, where we can't trust anything we read?! Only going to get much worse too, with the ascent of AI.

[Stere]

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Should be in rate my hinge thread

 

Bit of a dutchmans hinge?

 

 

Still looks so tidy so I think was  intentional to make to the tree jump nearly  over the wall...?

 

Top marks for technique

[Steven P]

37 minutes ago, skc101fc said:

We'll still never be able to truly despise him, as the little shit will have his hoody pulled tightly down over his face and be claiming all manner of underage protections, and will only grunt when asked to give his name.

Expose, shame and humiliate rather than give them free absolution to carry on being the turds of society 

 

Thinking about this last night, and not to create a villain until convicted of course, but a suitable punishment would include purchasing, planting and caring for a new tree in the spot. Perhaps to care for it till the tree reaches lets say 10 years old.. and if it dies.... reset to the start, plant a new one till it gets to 10 - the lad maybe has to visit the tree once a month.... I'd be a bit lenient and mandate that the lad also attends and passes a course in Arboriculture, plus whatever fines and so on that the court would normally set. Sounds easy till it is February 5 years on and he has to haul himself out of bed in the snow to check on a tree