Apparently tree killing is a capitol offense in the US. Actually, the guy who poisoned 2 famous trees at Auburn University got a 3 year sentence.
He was sentenced to serve at least six months of a three-year sentence for criminal damage to an agricultural facility, the Lee County District Attorney said at the time.
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The tree that appears in an important scene in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves starring Kevin Costner
A criminal offense, but not a capitol (or capital) one.
Yes, I know, I was just informing you that your video link is no longer viable.
It has a region restriction and is disallowed for Canada and the United States of America.
Yeah, still works from here, so I thought an explanation of the content was in order.
What about this one ?
Works for me, thanks.
What a horrible film, enlivened only by Rickman’s fantastic over the top performance.
Sheriff of Nottingham : Just a minute. Robin Hood steals money from my pocket, forcing me to hurt the public, and they love him for it? Sheriff of Nottingham : That’s it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
Why a spoon cousin? Why not an axe?
You got me.
The latest news: https://www.cnn.com/travel/damage-to-ancient-hadrians-wall-confirmed-after-famous-uk-tree-deliberately-felled/index.html
More famous tree felling news, this time stars from game of thrones …
Also this one in Ghana, earlier this month, although there’s no major film or tv series connectd with it.
Two people have been charged over the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree - on Criminal Damage to both the tree and the ancient wall.
Good. I hope they get the maximum penalty, though it probably won’t be enough.
Both sentenced to 4 years and three months.
The judge said at Newcastle crown court that the pair would be released no later than 40 per cent through their prison sentences.
Each will serve a further six months concurrently for the damage the pair caused to Hadrian’s Wall as a result of the felling.
“later”? is that a typo and should it be “earlier”?
If so maybe 2 1/2 years.
Yes, likely “earlier.”
Just my opinion as a local, yes they deserved punishing but 4+ years for cutting down a tree is ridiculous. Maybe it was “world famous” (although I’d never heard of it before all this fuss) but many criminals get much less than this for violent assault. 100 years isn’t particularly old either, and sycamore isn’t even a native species.
It brought in a huge amount to tourism to the area for whatever reason and now that’s gone
While I’ll take it with a grain of salt, said Tree was valued at £622,191 (later lowered to a 450,000 estimate), which, of course, isn’t recoverable. I’m not local, and agree that 4.5 years for cutting down any “generic” tree seems much, but 4.5 years for causing that much property damage is more reasonable.
Lots of possible disagreement with said valuation, but massive property damage (value wise) is a reasonable reason for a more severe penalty.