Key West police rescue woman from giant banyan tree

upi ^ | May 11, 2016 | Daniel Uria

[JoeProBono]

KEY WEST, Fla., - Police in Key West helped to rescue a woman who had become stuck in a giant banyan tree.

Officer Scott Standerwick worked alongside firefighters to rescue the woman, who happened to be a Key West local, from the tree.

"They popped her out like a cork," a Key West Police Department spokesperson told ABC 10.

The woman had reportedly been trying to climb the tree before she became stuck.

[PLMerite]

I get that.

[moovova]

Arborsexual...another protected class on the horizon.

[GOYAKLA]

Was this Sandra Fluke?
Tell this her, condoms don’t grow on Rubber Trees!

[JoeProBono]

Older banyan trees are characterized by their aerial prop roots that grow into thick woody trunks which, with age, can become indistinguishable from the main trunk. Old trees can spread out laterally, using these prop roots to cover a wide area. In some species the effect is for the props to develop into a sort of forest covering a considerable area, every trunk connected directly or indirectly to the central trunk. The topology of this structure of interconnection inspired the name of the hierarchical computer network operating system Banyan VINES.

[Steely Tom]

There’s one of those in my neck of the woods too.

[V_TWIN]

Why yes it is a real tree, KW is also home to some very small deer:

https://www.google.com/search?q=key+deer&biw=1430&bih=880&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVwPDNkNXMAhUJbD4KHcy_AkYQ_AUIBigB&dpr=1#imgrc=GxqogaarcmhmWM%3A

[M Kehoe]

Should have doused her with baby oil and let her slip out naturally.

5.56mm

[blueunicorn6]

“Hello Mom....Dad.....I’m.....I’m stuck in a tree.”

“You mean you’re stuck on a branch, honey?”

“No. I mean I’m stuck in a tree. You know, the bottom part. What do they call that? The suitcase. I’m stuck in the suitcase of the tree.”

“I guess she did get that ‘stupid gene’ from your side of the family after all. Trunk, dear, you’re stuck in the trunk of the tree.”

“It’s not an elephant, Dad. It’s a tree.”

[Yardstick]

Wonder if there was Chinese music?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“The problem with Key West is there are not enough drinking establishments there.”

You got that right.

[dragonblustar]

[Moltke]

A chainsaw would’ve solved that problem real quick.

And no need to hurt the tree, either.

[V_TWIN]

I was wondering how long it would take someone to respond to that comment. :^)

[JoeProBono]

[N. Theknow]

Is this tree REAL? Too many tree trunks! Suspicious.

The Banyan tree thrives in sandy, poor soil such as we have in abundance in Florida. To support its limbs, it puts out tendrils which eventually reach the ground and then take "root" and become supports for the limbs. Thus you have older Banyan trees that look like the one in which the woman was caught.

Should you attempt to climb one and lose your footing, you can fall and become trapped in the many tendrils/supports of the tree.

[blueunicorn6]

We always wondered where uncle Big Head Ned went to.

Now we know.

[JoeProBono]

[Ellendra]

Yes it’s real. And those aren’t trunks. This type of tree grows aerial prop roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banyan

[Oatka]

It happened in the '50s. It's true, 'cuz I saw it on TV. :-)

IMDB

[CGASMIA68]

all of it

how about the Flying Machine,Pirates World and the Stained Glass Pub
and lets not forget the Chateau Madrid at Oakland and Fed

And for a great dinner The Down Under and big time under ground folk Stans on Commercial