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

[madloaf]

I'm just wondering if a famous tree from a movie falls in the night, does it make a sound?

 

[Bald fraud]

Let’s face it he won’t even get a ticking off in this day and age.

 

[BillCarlisle]

I'm with you on that. It's not easy felling a tree. The notch looks a decent cut, it's easy to go too deep, and the felling cut is smooth and clean. Done quickly in one go too, you can see by how little of the trunk has broken at the end as it fell. Staying that close to cut that far takes some balls, which suggests an experienced individual ( or they're just 'kin stupid)
Not a small tree either, you'd need a decent sized bar, not a 12" one you'd pick up at B&Q.
I'm doubtful that a 16 yo has got the tools or the experience to do a job of that quality.

The story around here today is that the local pub (Twice Brewed Inn) has offered a £1500 bar tab to anyone who grasses up the real perpetrators of this act of vandalism. Nobody believes it was a 16 yr old kid acting alone. He's a patsy.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

There are some tree-mendous puns in this thread

 

[lefty goldblatt]

If the perpetrator does get sent down, will the prison's "Mr Big" be examining some (annual) rings

 

[mexico1970]

Find the copse of the perp and it's too late to ashk him any questions.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Let’s face it he won’t even get a ticking off in this day and age.

Where’s the pun? Better log off ;-)

 

[lefty goldblatt]

It was 'im
'e did it.

'ang 'im from the nearest.......oh, 'ang on.

Normally, he would be wearing suspenders and a bra

 

[Gabriel]

Judging by public sentiment, bamboo torture would be an appropriate punishment. A fiendishly ghastly way to go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_torture

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Think someone misheard 16 for 60.