Making the news today....

[dumper]

7 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

 

Aware breaking ground possibly different... There’s a reason I don’t do this sort of thing. I simply wouldn’t bother. Too much effort for one tree (however nice). Build a school instead. Raise the next generation of kids to invent tree building nanobots or time travel. 

Your going to need a crane much bigger to lift in a mature tree

[dumper]

34 minutes ago, peds said:

Did I not hear that the stump had shoots appear, as sycamores occasionally do? Would we not just let the tree that is already there get on with it? A lot cheaper...

The topic was how reasonable the valuation on the tree was not if it was regenerating

personally I think it’s undervalued. For too long we seem to value trees as just timber, firewood and chip,no reasonable accounting for landscape value. If you cut down a tree and are found to have broken the law you should replace the tree to a condition as it was the day before you cut it down, I know this isn’t always reasonable or possible but the fine should reflect this and hurt.

 

[peds]

49 minutes ago, dumper said:

The topic was how reasonable the valuation on the tree was not if it was regenerating

personally I think it’s undervalued. For too long we seem to value trees as just timber, firewood and chip,no reasonable accounting for landscape value. If you cut down a tree and are found to have broken the law you should replace the tree to a condition as it was the day before you cut it down, I know this isn’t always reasonable or possible but the fine should reflect this and hurt.

 

 

You got me all wrong guv, I'd put a huge value on the tree itself, and there should absolutely be an equivalent punishment for the crime. Just in regards to replacing the tree itself... there's still a tree there, and I'd rather keep the old one, which isn't dead, than kill it and bring in a new one. It'll look lovely in a few hundred years, some of the prettiest big trees out there are obviously once-upon-a-time coppice jobs.

 

Edit: so what I think I'm getting at is that the price tag of putting a new tree there isn't really a worthwhile measure of the value of the crime... this is a case for which we invented the word "priceless".

The scrote won't have two shiny shekels to rub together anyway, just send him off to the penal colonies to sew potato sacks or something. 

Edited August 28 by peds

[Whoppa Choppa]

17 minutes ago, dumper said:

The topic was how reasonable the valuation on the tree was not if it was regenerating

personally I think it’s undervalued. For too long we seem to value trees as just timber, firewood and chip,no reasonable accounting for landscape value. If you cut down a tree and are found to have broken the law you should replace the tree to a condition as it was the day before you cut it down, I know this isn’t always reasonable or possible but the fine should reflect this and hurt.

 

Its amenity value was obviously way more than it's best timber value on a good day inc processing into whatever. Hey you could have a sycamore plank on eBay turn up as "from the sycamore gap tree. Own a piece of interesting history, priceless coffee table".

[peds]

New idea: have the perps spend the rest of their days making cutting boards and spoons from the remains of their victim to sell at the local gift shop.

[Stubby]

Body found in mid/east Lavant yesterday . Cops sealed off a short part of " Sheepwash " lane . I was walking with the dog to get my truck from having a service at the local garage but plod made me go around a different way . Its all I know so far . Ovbviousely it wasn't me  🙂

[doobin]

7 hours ago, Stubby said:

Body found in mid/east Lavant yesterday . Cops sealed off a short part of " Sheepwash " lane . I was walking with the dog to get my truck from having a service at the local garage but plod made me go around a different way . Its all I know so far . Ovbviousely it wasn't me  🙂

No way! We were wondering why it was all cordoned off. Nobody on the WhatsApp group seemed to know anything. 

[Johnsond]

Paul Kelly MC . on LinkedIn: A Muslim man has escaped jail after attacking three women for not dressing… | 44 comments

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A Muslim man has escaped jail after attacking three women for not dressing conservatively, he...

So much for without fear and favour. Regards the two offences of a similar nature ie throwing objects I guess I this case Farage is an acceptable target.

[Steven P]

Is this what you mean?

 

Man to be sentenced after throwing cup at Clacton MP Nigel Farage during General Election campaign | ITV News Anglia

 

[Steven P]

Or this?

 

Woman, 25, charged with assault after milkshake thrown at Nigel Farage

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Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, will appear at Colchester Magistrates' Court on 2 July following the incident at a campaign event in Clacton, Essex on Tuesday.