Stringer, surely if you had some sort of a dispute with a neighbor you’d object to his coming over and poisoning your landscape or destroying your property in some similar fashion, no?
Ok fine. You, Ogre, care about the stupidest shit. With all the country’s real crime problems and overcrowded jails, some asshole killing a couple trees a few people like is exactly what we should throw someone in prison for. :rolleyes:
Object? Of course. Do I think he should be “nailed to the wall?” Get real.
Uh huh. And somehow it’s impossible for me to care about the trees and all the other stuff you mentioned, is it?
In a somewhat similar case awhile back the perp was sentenced to 9 years.
Here is the story. TBH, I don’t know how it all turned out in the end.
This is a realer crime than some of those people are in prison for.
First a sore loser UGA fan sets the damn things on fire, and now an UA sidewalk alum poisons 'em. Bad year for Toomer’s corner. At least they caught the poisoner.
-monkey
Auburn, class of '97
Not that I think this is a post that’s even halfway meant to be anything other than blatant threadshitting, but “killing a couple of trees” is like saying that if somebody burned down Monticello the Abraham Lincoln House they’d “burned an old house”, or that the guy who defaced the Pieta back in the 1970s “broke an old statue in a city that’s got a billion of 'em already”. Mention Toomer’s Corner to however many hundreds of thousands of Auburn graduates and former students there are around the world and regardless of how little they cared about football it would instantly form a nostalgic image. Jimmy Wales probably said “Oh shit!” today before the wiki entry for the destruction was added.
I only attended Auburn for a quarter and I LOATHE college football culture and even I have nostalgic memories of it. I have pics of my siblings at Toomer’s Corner with those two massive oaks in view from the late 1970s/early 1980s and of my parents there in the 1950s. My brother has a picture of my grandmother at Toomer’s Corner when she was a student in the 1920s. Here’s a pic of one of the oaks from 1910. There’s a picture in almost ever edition of the Glomerata (the AU yearbook) since the 1910s.
I’m neither a football fan, a proud alumnus, a tree hugger, or even particularly devoted to that campus (though my siblings, parents and grandmother were all fanatical on the football and the school loyalty and my brother has attempted to buy Toomers Drugs a couple of times), but just thinking of the conversations and gatherings under those trees have seen student gatherings for two world wars, the Civil Rights era, integration (Auburn U.'s integration was amazingly low key), Vietnam, the Shug v. Bear years, Desert Storm and into the present era makes me gutsick over how needless and senseless this act of vandalism was. It’s like knocking Washington’s nose off of Mt. Rushmore or collapsing Natural Bridge (except neither of those things are living).
Personally I don’t see this as the act of a classless Bama fan but as the act of a crazy old piece of shit who I hope spends every minute of the maximum sentence allowable in prison because he’s proven he can’t be trusted outside of a cage.
I am hoping that they will have the wood made into furniture and statues and other commemorables, sell it for massive amounts of money (my brother would probably gladly pay $100,000 for a dining table from it) and use the proceeds to replace the soil and transplant the largest local oaks capable of being transported in their place. It’s not a perfect solution obviously but better than a bare spot.
It’s…it’s almost like White Lily flour. 
Nitpick:
Monticello = Jefferson, not Lincoln.
Otherwise good post Sampiro.
Meant to read “Monticello OR the Abraham Lincoln house”. (Trust me: southerners know the difference between the two.:D)
Here’s the call in show clip for those who haven’t heard it. He actually sounds amazingly sane.
And what the fuck do you know? I’ve been banned from one particularly vicious Bama board for not going along with their “HAW HAW HAW! STOOPID BARNERS!” garbage.
Did I mention that I’m actually an Alabama fan?
:rolleyes: Sheesh. I truly enjoy the sport, but the fans…oy vey.
Ah, I see. (And yes–I am one.)
Too soon. 
That’s it. I’m Pitting myself.
Well obviously I’m not a native…but i love the insanity of Southern College football. The unbridled passion of the Hedges… the Grove… Toomer’s trees… and all of that stuff.
Buck Belue to Lindsay Scott… listening the Keith Jackson doing the games… its the passion that appeals to me… and its a damn shame that something that linked generations is soon to be no more… According to a good source (namely my ag brilliant g/f) not only the trees will be killed…but the entire area… it will take years for something to grow their. That’s fucked up…
So they’re changing the name to It’s Not a Toomer’s Corner?
I second the notion of using the wood to create whatever would make the Auburn alums happy, plaques, tables, whatever. They could make some real money off this.
I’m not up on the technical challenges faced in transplanting large trees, certainly they could use the money from the sale of wood products to bring in very nice specimens to take their place. Another technical challenge might be to make the grounds around it impenetrable so that repeats don’t occur.
I’m by no means an Auburn fan, but they don’t deserve to lose a great campus tradition.
Most likely, for sure. It’s not a dead lock yet, though. There have been cases of poisoned trees being saved (although severely damaged) with extremely aggressive intervention, such as soil replacement, etc. Auburn has the resources and the expertise to throw at it. I hope they’re successful.
A couple of years ago, I had a job relocating live oaks for a company doing work on a Georgia barrier island. It’s mostly a brute force operation (we used two excavators, a D-8 bulldozer, a “sled” that had to be assembled under the tree with pipes and steel plates, and a crap load of people with shovels). The main problem isn’t the capability, it’s the method.
See, the only way to get a large live oak out of the ground is to cut the tap root. You can keep the tree alive after transplantation with a below ground irrigation system, but the thing is never going to be as healthy as it was and will die early. What AU is going to have to do, I fear, is settle for a smaller tree (say approx 15 ft max - and even that’s a pretty damn big rootball) so you can actually dig out the entire tap root and still move it with a truck rather than a sled. Even a small one is a bitch to transplant if you want to keep the taproot to ensure the thing survives.