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They had better un-discover it before some idiot chops it down just because
by CryptoBanker 7y ago
They had better un-discover it before some idiot chops it down just because
- munk-a 7y agoOr, alternatively, drives into it with their truck while drunk[1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9
- nathancahill 7y agoUgh. Was camping at a small oasis in the desert in Jordan earlier this year. Someone had chopped down all 6 palm trees recently. Somehow it seems so much more tragic when there isn't another tree in 10s of miles.
- seph-reed 7y agoFew things get my goat like this, but I'd drop all forms of civility in a heart beat just to see the kind of person who'd do that suffer.
- RenRav 7y agoI was wondering how they managed to hit the only tree for hundreds of miles around. Its isolation made it a target, basically the only landmark around, so of course people would be driving straight at it.
- diveanon 7y agoA meth head burned down the oldest tree (3500 YO) in Florida a few years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Senator_(tree) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Senator_(tree)
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- iron0013 7y agoNot sure why this was flagged. Noteworthy trees (tallest, oldest, last remaining, famously beautiful, etc) routinely get chopped down by vandals, apparently purely out of spite.