OT: Sycamore Gap, Prince of Thieves tree felled

[millertop]

16 year olds running about with chain saws ? What has happened to morals in this country ?

Exactly, did he carry it in a backpack and nobody noticed?

[flourbasher]

It's guns here. Not unusual these days for 14/15/16/17 year old to steal a car (usually a Kia or Hyundai through a hack learned on Social Media), ram it into the front of a smoke shop or a pot shop causing around $50K of damage to just get away with $500 of merchandise. Most of them carry guns and will use them if confronted. If they get caught, as long as they haven't used the gun (which gets confiscated) they'll be bailed out within 24h back to the 'supervision' of their parents. Many just continue doing it until they actually kill someone.

Have you considered moving

[frogmiller]

Looking at the size of the tree that is not done with a chainswa that you'd comfortably carry for any sort of distance. the white markings on the tree stump and the quality of the cut means it wasn't done by a 16 year old school kid.

[millertop]

Looking at the size of the tree that is not done with a chainswa that you'd comfortably carry for any sort of distance. the white markings on the tree stump and the quality of the cut means it wasn't done by a 16 year old school kid.

Yes I do find it a bit strange, maybe he wasn’t the only one there

[frogmiller]

Yes I do find it a bit strange, maybe he wasn’t the only one there

They're saying a 16 year old has been arrested. Can they name him? Will we get to know who he is?

[fc_miller]

A local has set up a go fund me page with £10k target for a bronze replica. Do they know how much a bronze replica would cost? and wouldn't it be better to have a new tree than a sculpture.

[Brin]

Bronze statue? Middle of nowhere? Straight up the “”Gypos r us” street. 😄

[Lolmorgan]

I can just see his lawyers opening gambit in court, he’s got mental health problems, drug user, broken home but he’s good to his Grandma.

[Lolmorgan]

Bronze statue? Middle of nowhere? Straight up the “”Gypos r us” street. 😄

Hey is that PC,Gyppos, shouldn’t it be of ethnic decent.

[daveeed]

Given the content , it’s good that we have input from Timbertop and Sawmiller on this thread