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If it was a memorial, which in the case of a tree would need it to have been planted for a reason, then it could be 10 years in jail.

Death penalty if it’s a memorial to a slave trader. Suella’s rules.

maybe it was the author trying to boost book sales?

Its based on a true story but maybe he needed something new to write about

The US legal system is fucked in many ways but their tree laws are usually good, depending on specific jurisdictions.

Some states have mandatory treble punitive damages for felling or damaging a tree without authorisation, on top of returning any profit illegally acquired.

Relevant meme.

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16 you boy arrested: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66952980

Check his fucking hard drive, and notify the owners of missing animals in the area too. Cunt.

So angry about this. Irrationally so almost.

Ditto.

A local, wealthy landlord type cut down his neighbours TPO oak tree, which would have been significantly older than the tree in question got a £3k fine.

https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/19808228.romsey-man-peter-mann-made-pay-3-000-court-chopping-neighbours-tree/

Unfortunately fines are generally permission slips for the rich.

This is a relatively good result – a (clarification: suspected) neighbour cut down my parents' TPO tree and my dad got the fine. Other trees on the land have been poisoned and the police are stumped (hah) as to who did it, because it certainly wouldn't be the former-council bigwig in the overlooking property next door.

Huh?

They expected your parents to permanently chain themselves to the tree?

AFAIK a pto means any work on the tree needs permission, not that the tree must be protected at all times.

Round their way I reckon that's what it would take. Poisoning more popular than felling these days though. Must be something in the water.

Really surprising given the professionalism of the job. As said above, it's a clean cut, you can see the spray marks so would seem like someone in 'the trade' to me. 16 yr old kid seems odd.

That sucks.

Sign him up to all the shitty junkmail you can find 😈

Maybe it was an Andy Goldsworthy that got out of hand?

I thought you were going to go with an older US cherry tree based meme

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day...

https://twitter.com/channel_tsc/status/1707514043630596545

Not sure where they’re getting this figure of 300yr old from either. Sure as shit doesn’t look that old to me. Maybe 150 at a push..

It was in that Braveheart documentary.

Just plant another one lads, no biggie.

Not sure where they’re getting this figure of 300yr old from either.

Can't you just count the rings?

Not from this distance.

King John reigned from 1199 to 1216 and there’s film footage of it from that time so surely the tree is over 800 years old.

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