Reply With QuoteIt makes you wonder why someone has done this. It's not likely to be the local yoof after a couple of ciders...
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Sad felling of an iconic tree. But an odd comment from the Northermberland Parks folks.
“We have reason to believe it was deliberately felled”. I should coco!!’
Now I have no experience in arboreal forensics, but the photos make me think it was perhaps also deliberately felled with a bloody great chainsaw!!!
Unless they were deliberately going to fell a tree but accidentally felled this one?
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It makes you wonder why someone has done this. It's not likely to be the local yoof after a couple of ciders...
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Cut with more precision than I would have expected!
A 16 year old has been arrested. What punishment could you possibly inflict on someone carrying out this type of destruction (maybee a sycamore branch up the arse).
And a large hammerOriginally Posted by brigant
Precision of that is really impressive vs what I have managed in my few attempts.
Why….?
16 year old....perhaps some stupid school bet e.g. "I bet I can do somethign that gets in teh National Press", or some sort of challenge, "£1 each in a pot and first one to get in the press gets the lot"
Also now called "Sycamore Stump" on Google Maps
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Hopefully it will coppice in time.
I was thinking about this this morning, and I remembered the Buddhist practice of the Mandala - in which monks spend days or weeks painstakingly creating an exquisite sand sculpture, only to trash it. It's a profound statement about impermanence.
It seems to me that we really only appreciate and treasure things completely when they're gone. For those to whom this tree did mean something, their love and appreciation for it was never more keenly, more profoundly felt than when it was taken away. Furthermore hundreds of thousands of people who'd never heard of it have seen the photos of it, now.
It may well be that the person who did this meant it as nothing more than an act of vandalism. And yet, irrespective of the motive - as a piece of performance art, if you really think about it, it's stunning.
No it's not.
What possible reason could someone have to do that?
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Art! It's stunning..... apparently.
I wonder if you'd still hold that view if it was your meat and two veg that had been lopped off. It is not a piece of performance art. It's mindless destruction of something beautiful. At the very least, the perpetrator(s) should be made to plant a thousand sycamores as part of their re-education.
*.....wait's patiently for the TikTok/Insta videos......*
The punishment won't send the signal to stop any acts of vandalism,so things like this will continue.
Really? You're an advocate for the anal rape of a child, with a tree branch, for cutting down a tree?
It's a tree FFS. It might be slightly annoying that it's been cut down, but it's just a single tree. Come back to me on the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, what you'd do there.
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Death BY Magumba!
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Fortunately I'm not clever enough to appreciate that kind of 'art'.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Independent news.
A man in his sixties has been arrested in connection with the felling of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree after a teenager was released on bail.
If you cut down a tree and there is no-one else present to witness it, is it really performance art?
Brian Blessed has broken his silence, and my Trite-Sh*teometer.
Robin Hood actor Brian Blessed has urged park bosses to plant another tree near the felled Sycamore Gap landmark.
The 86-year-old former president of the Council for National Parks said it would give the stump "company" helping it to regrow.
The Northumberland tree, which featured in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Price of Thieves, was cut down on Wednesday.
Blessed said it was "beyond comprehension" and he believed it was not dead.
The actor, who starred in the film as Robin Hood's father Lord Locksley, said he was hopeful something could grow in its place.
"It will survive and it will be very bushy," he told told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme.
"You know, give it company and plant another tree a good 200 yards or 300 yards to keep it company, it will talk to it, it will help it."
Hopefully, someone will point out to the 16 yr old the errors of his ways.
As regards a suitable punishment, a chainsaw comes to mind!
I am happy to put my services forward and I am crap with a chainsaw.
300 years of life and bringing so much pleasure and happiness to millions of people simply destroyed and for what reason?
A bet, drunk, challenge, spoiling the view or just because the have one brain cell, between them?
I think this will turn out to be a grudge act against the council.. he's lost his family because of this, that and the other, council red tape meant he had to sell his farm, etc etc.. I wonder if they could carefully remove the stump/roots bowl and take it somewhere safe for careful regrowing and stick another, full grown one back in there for now. (And then hang the bloke from it ;)
Only in the consequences.
I think that he was evicted by his jesuit landlords.
The tree made the Wikipedia Deaths in 2023 page. RIP.
David
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Thought it was still alive.The tree made the Wikipedia Deaths in 2023 page. RIP.
It's been blessed
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
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