Posted on 06/28/2021 12:53:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Thou shalt not knock down the king’s trees........ even if they are on your own property..................
The person should just claim he is an atheist and felt threated by the Judeo-Christian theology of the Joshua trees.
The builder should know that.
Or claim they were re-planting them.....................
Silly you
That is not your own property. It belongs tot he King....you get to rent it for the taxes.
They’re endangered according to the People’s Republic of California. You know? The state that prefers massive wildfires over disturbing the habitat of an ‘endangered’ mouse?
He shouldn’t have bought the property when he saw them.
Or he should have negotiated the price down because of loss of use because of the presence of the trees.
But he shouldn’t have touched them.
Private property is not a thing. It ought to be.
I’m pretty sure they did, seeing that they were burying them, else why bother......................
Actions have consequences. As the trees were on private property, did the property owners know the laws and protection status when they bought the property? Was it noted when they got building permits? And, regarding those, did they include removal of the trees? I bet they buried them because they knew it was wrong to dig them up, surprised they did this during the day.
Nice neighbourhood!
I was stationed at 29 Palms MCB in 1973.
There was no shortage of Joshua Trees..........................
There is no shortage of those mice, either.
Doesn’t stop the Californians...
Those frikkin’ ugly trees are everywhere out there. They don’t need any protection. This is so dumb.
It’s a new law...and there’s likely no restriction in the property owner’s deed and it’s just another encumbrance on a property that shouldn’t be there.
“I bet they buried them because they knew it was wrong to dig them up, surprised they did this during the day.”
I completely agree with the first part. Hard to plead ignorance.
On the second part, having the backhoe running at night invites curiosity. During the day more people are at work(at least used to be). A better approach might have been to remove one or two every week or month and not to remove so many. I can’t blame the neighbors.
Joshua trees are far from being endangered. I can see a dozen from my back window in Anthem, Arizona. They are on the state land over the fence.
I also noted that they were all along the Beeline highway on the east side of Phoenix on our drive to Payson, yesterday.
In addition Traitor in Chief is set to issue regulation declaring that rain water puddle a navigable water way. Private property - thing of the past.
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