Posted on 09/28/2023 12:23:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage in connection with the felling of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian’s Wall.
The boy remains in custody and is assisting officers with their inquiries, Northumbria Police said on Thursday afternoon.
Superintendent Kevin Waring, of Northumbria Police, said: “This is a world-renowned landmark and the events of today have caused significant shock, sadness and anger throughout the local community and beyond.
“An investigation was immediately launched following this vandalism, and this afternoon we have arrested one suspect in connection with our inquiries.
“Given our investigation remains at a very early stage, we are keeping an open mind. I am appealing to the public for information to assist us – if you have seen or heard anything suspicious that may be of interest to us, please let us know.”
The world-famous Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian’s Wall, which was felled in the middle of the night by vandals, could be saved, experts hope.
The fallen tree, which dates from the 18th century, was discovered by walkers in Northumberland on Thursday morning after someone took a chainsaw to its trunk overnight.
The Woodland Trust has said it was 'horrible' to see that the tree had been felled CREDIT: Owen Humphreys/PA The sycamore was voted Woodland Trust Tree of the Year in 2016 and was visited by tens of thousands of walkers each year – even featuring in the 1991 film Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, which starred Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman.
Kim McGuinness, the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, said she was “incandescent” and the force vowed to “use every tactic at our disposal” to find the culprit.
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This makes me sick. I travelled to England last month and one thing that was on my list of “must sees” was this tree. We ended up getting covid and never did get there. I thought, next trip.
Why would he do this?
Well - they are all equal now, aren’t they? (Doesn’t look to be another tree around for miles!)
“could be saved, experts hope”
Well, maybe it will put out some shoots I guess but I don’t think there’s any “trunk reattachment surgery” they can perform...
“can’t cane ‘em”
You can. You mayn’t, but you can.
My bet is the same sort of "Stop Oil" activists that splash paint on art and glue themselves to streets. We'll see, maybe.
This obviously screams “social media prank” (”prank” being obnoxious asshattery).
The only correct reaction is a response video where the twerp has all major bones in his body broken and is kicked into a ditch to contemplate the finer points of being an asshat.
Maybe he was inspired by Bill Gates. He has been out there pushing for cutting down hundreds of millions of trees and burying them to trap carbon.
https://www.ktsa.com/bill-gates-please-grab-some-pine/
The one thing I remember was a series of photos from a mountain roadside in Colorado. First there was a little trash, then larger piles of trash, and then a refrigerator and mattress as it became a mini-dump. That’s a pretty good analogy for leftists: They start wrecking something and if they aren’t shut down when small, they’ll eventually turn it into a dump.
Line him up to the wall and shoot many arrows into him.
Agree. This article makes no sense in terms of the tree's "historic" value.
Hadrian's Wall is from Roman era Britain, it was constructed around 122 AD, to build a border wall between what is roughly England and Scotland today.
Robin Hood is a figure from folklore who likely never existed, but the stories are set during the time of Richard the Lionhearted was away fighting in the third crusade, so roughly a 1000 years later... 1190s A.D. or so. Nottingham, Sherwood Forest, Loxley, etc., are all nowhere near Hadrian's Wall.
18th century UK was the colonial era, when George III was taxing us too much for tea, so any tree planted during that time would have been grown around 600 years AFTER "Robin Hood's" heyday.
“...a stern talking to if found guilty...”
I know you were being sarcastic, but that reminded me of the one and only time I was in England. My host was driving me on a toll road and we pulled up to the booth. He handed her cash. The lady in the booth (in a very even tone) said something like, “Dear, you know this is a charge card lane, do you not?”
We pulled out of there, and he was really upset. I asked him what was wrong, and he went on and on about how she’d “dressed him down”... Wow.
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Some people crave attention like a drug addict craves their high.
A juvenile will get that attention one way or another, bad or good, it’s all the same to them..............
Trees capture carbon as CO2, releases the O2 and uses the C to make cellulose, aka wood.
Killing them would stop that cycle and the wood will begin releasing the carbon it has stored over its lifetime again as CO2 as the cellulose rots...........
Use the wood to make a shillelagh and beat him with it!...........
When Bonnie Prince Charlie invaded England on behalf of his father, the “Pretender” James VIII & III, stones from Hadrian’s Wall were used to build a military road near the wall...so much for respect for antiquities in the 18th century.
Maybe some gorilla glue…
It all starts with graffiti. A society willing to tolerate graffiti sloped on private property by hooligans gets what they deserve... I hate graffiti.! :(
Lucky for us they did not cut them all, there was a large oak (still there) in the front yard and about a dozen in the back yard, they did cull three of those. Most of the old neighborhood they left some in the front and back yards.
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