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Vandals have cut down the 300 yr old tree at Sycamore Gap – Hadrian’s Wall (Northumberland, England)
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Vandals have cut down the 300 yr old tree at Sycamore Gap – Hadrian’s Wall (Northumberland, England)
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Sick vandals. I hope they get caught.
Why the fuck would someone do that
Featured in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves!
I’m all for an eye for an eye, or a limb for a limb or two…
It’s crazy how humans are the only animal on the planet that can appreciate this tree for its longevity. And at the same time, we’re capable of destroying things without any reason but to amuse ourselves.
In the United State tree law is no joke. If you cut down a tree you don’t own you can end up with a bill for thousands of dollars, and that is just an ordinary non-historic tree.
A week of community service for each year the tree stood sounds fair
the best time to plant a tree is 300 years ago
the second best time is today
I love this pic [https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/29a0a336f92568b4ccc1a4576a3555feefbdffa0/785_1317_3991_2395/master/3991.jpg?width=620&dpr=2&s=none](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/29a0a336f92568b4ccc1a4576a3555feefbdffa0/785_1317_3991_2395/master/3991.jpg?width=620&dpr=2&s=none)
what a shame.
He’ll be forever known as “that stupid prick”
Seriously should make him dig the stump out by hand then if they find a suitable tree dock any income until it’s all paid up and then some.
Wtf? Why would anyone do this?
orc work
I’m so mad about this. Hiked to the tree in May and it was just so beautiful.
Cunt
Hundreds of years, thousands of people seeing or or passing it by. Takes just one asshole to ruin it.
A 16yr old has been arrested
A kid has been arrested.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/28/boy-16-arrested-in-connection-with-felling-of-famous-sycamore-gap-tree-hadrians-wall-england
If the reddit lawyers regarding tree law have taught me anything – this is going to be expensive.
A 16 year old cut it down. Jesus fuckin Christ
What a total piece of shit
Mindless bastards.
Isn’t this the tree in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves?????
[Here’s](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/28/boy-16-arrested-in-connection-with-felling-of-famous-sycamore-gap-tree-hadrians-wall-england) an article about it for those interested. It states that they caught someone (the 16-year-old), but that there’s still a reward out for any information that leads to finding any perpetrators.
Seems like it’s really impacting the local community. That sort of tree is the stuff of legends, and there’s no way to put a price tag on te economic impact of it.Trees are really, really important imo
“Might I have the pleasure of your name, before I have you run through?”
“Robin of Locksley.”
“Well, well. Locksley, welcome home.”
Another chapter in the ongoing “England or Alabama” saga.
This but worse:
**Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America**
by Matthew Olzmann
—Southern Pines, NC
Tell me what it’s like to live without
curiosity, without awe. To sail
on clear water, rolling your eyes
at the kelp reefs swaying
beneath you, ignoring the flicker
of mermaid scales in the mist,
looking at the world and feeling
only boredom. To stand
on the precipice of some wild valley,
the eagles circling, a herd of caribou
booming below, and to yawn
with indifference. To discover
something primordial and holy.
To have the smell of the earth
welcome you to everywhere.
To take it all in, and then,
to reach for your knife.
Holy shit I was just there
it was such a beautiful tree!!
That’s a very clean cut too. This was not some drunken escapade where they thought this would be funny.
This was definitely premeditated.
When I was a kid we’d steal hood ornaments or spray paint shit. No one was ever like, let’s go lumberjacking.
First they sack Rome, and now this!?
That tree has its own Wikipedia article. 2016 Tree of the Year award.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_Tree
This is a dumb question but is there a way to like, surgically reattach the tree to its stump ?
Shit like this didn’t happen while Harambe was alive.
It survived two world wars but didn’t make it past TikTok