Sycamore Gap tree felled | Man in his 60s also arrested

[Churchlawtonblue]

If found guilty we all know that our society will protect this 16yr old. If he is of sound mind he will also know that he will go unpunished by our society and the justice system for carrying out this act of vandalism.

Crimes go unpunished in our society therefore criminal behaviour gets worse. Last night there was a news article on shoplifting and the police not bothering to even attend let alone prosecute.

Until we stop being soft on criminal activity and crack down on this kind of behaviour things will get worse.

If found guilty of this act this young man should be named and shamed at the very least, but I suspect the do gooders will stop that happening.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

People are cunts

I like The Doors' version better, but this does have a certain raw promise...

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Going out on a limb here but I doubt he was just wandering along, minding his own business, when he decided to whip out his Swiss army knife and hack the tree down on the spur of the moment. My guess is he already had the chainsaw with him. Just a hunch, like.

Wow, with powers of deduction like that you should be a detective.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

16 year old kid arrested.
His life is about to change.

At 16 you're not a "kid".

You know full well what's right and what's wrong by that age.

 

[Kompany Car]

At 16 you're not a "kid".

You know full well what's right and what's wrong by that age.

Waiting for someone to tell us about prefrontal cortex development and decision making...

I agree with you, kids know what's right and wrong by 16. Its a conscious premeditated decision to do something like this, not a spur of the moment thing.

 

[abu13]

The fucked up thing is that as bad as society is now in 30 years time they will be viewed as the good old days that we all long for. We are on a down hill spiral heading towards a vat of shit.

 

[domalino]

Do the twat for treeson

I can’t believe it was just one lad.

I though it would take at least tree fellers.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Was thinking this but how on earth can it be preserved- pretty gutting this.

There's a tree in my local park that has some famous poets and writers "signatures" etched into it by them, and lower trunk is surrounded by a circular cage fence. A bit ugly maybe, but you'll not be cutting this down.

 

[grant1977]

Damm shame it didn’t fall on him

 

[jacko74]

All this outrage, outcry and general wailing about one single tree just because it happens to be "iconic" and popular with the Facebook morons and Instatwats.

It's a pity they can't express the same level of concern for the mass destruction of habitats, loss of biodiversity and degradation of all ecosystems thats happening on an unprecedented scale across the UK.