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N.J. tree that survived Revolutionary War, Sandy chopped down on Earth Day
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| 06 May 2015
| Jessica Mazzola
Posted on 05/14/2015 3:58:58 PM PDT by Theoria
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Beautiful tree. To each his own, their property and all. Perhaps they couldn't incorporate it into their house plan.
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posted on
05/14/2015 3:58:58 PM PDT
by
Theoria
To: Theoria
If the town wanted the tree to stay, buy the property. If you don’t buy the property, shut up! Same goes for everyone who like to look at the tree.
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:05:54 PM PDT
by
GilesB
To: Theoria
If the municipality wanted to save the tree they should have put their money where their mouth was and bought the land.
They didn’t, so tough. Otherwise it would be a takings.
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:06:18 PM PDT
by
drbuzzard
(All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)
To: Theoria
Sorry to hear this. I was wondering who Sandy is.
According to town officials, the tree was likely alive during the Revolutionary War. It was healthy, and had survived several severe weather situations, like Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, they said.
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:06:23 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
To: Theoria
When I was a young’un in the 60s we had a house with a nice creek behind it and about 40 acres beyond that creek, half cow pasture half oak trees we played in. Some of those oaks were 200 years old, when I was in high school (so not bothered by such things) they cut those all down and put in an apartment complex now full of dreamers.
Looking back now that was the saddest part of my youth losing those trees.
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:07:08 PM PDT
by
Jolla
To: GilesB
Same goes for everyone who like to look at the tree.....or uses the word "pristine," in describing someone else's property.
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:08:04 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
(Hi! We're having a constitutional crisis. Come on over!)
To: GilesB
I'm so glad that we conservatives have no use whatsoever for consideration of the community we live in. Yeah, hell, F* em. Cut her down. Now that's a "developer" for you. Fine sense of citizenship.
To: Jolla
You sound like Tolkien. That was part of his childhood as well. That was the Shire. He has a wonderful park named after him that is in stewardship and protected.
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:11:00 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Theoria
No big deal. I have hegemoronic neighbors who want me to cut down large trees on MY property.
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:14:05 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Jolla
You had a very lucky youth if that was the saddest part.
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:21:15 PM PDT
by
ExpatGator
(I hate Illinois Nazis!)
To: hinckley buzzard
That is not what is being said. As unfortunate as it was, they did have the right to do with their property as they wished. They wished to cut down that tree, so they did.
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:21:41 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: hinckley buzzard
If you don’t respect basic property rights, you should quit calling yourself a conservative.
What you are asking is the owner to shoulder the entire burden for everyone else.
If everyone else thinks it is important to keep the tree - buy it. The fact that they didn’t buy it proves they didn’t think it was THAT important.
Demanding someone else pay for my visual pleasure is what I call a “fine sense of citizenship”. BTW, “fine citizen” will you take me to a strip club?
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:22:39 PM PDT
by
GilesB
To: Paladin2
I bet you had some choice words for them.
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:29:31 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Paladin2
There are some instances in which a property owner has a legal right to force a neighbor to trim or even cut down their trees.
To: Theoria
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:36:23 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
To: Theoria
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:37:09 PM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: Theoria
Like my dad use to say,”Any idiot can cut down a tree but only God can grow one”.
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:44:42 PM PDT
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
To: hinckley buzzard
Town Forester Tom Doty denied the application. I live less than five miles from this town, and the fact that it has a "town forester" is a joke. This is a town that is constantly threatening to secede from the county where it is located -- on the basis of the allegedly exorbitant county taxes the residents pay there.
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:45:34 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
( Invade."It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
To: hinckley buzzard
P.S. That town is located right next to an enormous county nature preserve that protects one of the major watersheds in the northern New Jersey area. You can stand almost anywhere that preserve and draw a circle with a 200-yard radius, and you will have more trees than you’d find in the entire town of Millburn.
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posted on
05/14/2015 4:49:37 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
( Invade."It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
To: Theoria
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05/14/2015 4:55:56 PM PDT
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