I was expecting him to look a bit more like Michael Moore:
Posted on 07/21/2004 5:23:34 AM PDT by veronica
TULSA - Blake Champlin, a Tulsa lawyer and environmental activist, died Monday at his home when a tree supporting a hammock fell and crushed him.
Champlin, 45, died instantly, said Gerald Hilsher, an attorney with Shipley & Kellogg, Champlin's former law firm.
Champlin was a member of Sierra Club and Save the Illinois River, and the director of Keep Tulsa Beautiful. He also pushed for an agreement between Oklahoma and Arkansas on phosphorus limits in northeast Oklahoma waters, Hilsher said.
Champlin was a past director of the Oklahoma Society of Environmental Professionals and a past chairman of the Environmental Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association.
He was a featured speaker at numerous environmental seminars throughout the region and represented many individuals in northeast Oklahoma who sued poultry companies for alleged water and air pollution, specifically around the Grand Lake area.
Champlin became a named-partner of Shipley, Jennings & Champlin and, in 2002, he joined the Tulsa law firm of Boone, Smith, Davis, Hurst & Dickman, where he headed their environmental law department.
A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at Asbury United Methodist Church in Tulsa.
Two birds with one stone, er, tree....
Kilmer's "Trees" was one of my favorites when I was a kid just because it was so easy to memorize. Then I found out that Joyce was a man and I switched to Shakepeare....
Er, Shakespeare was a man, too.
Heard the squirrels were p*****. "Nuts all over the place", said one. "Yeh, thanks to the "Big Nut"", said the other!!
Is he gonna have a wooden coffin made from the tree for his burial?
*snicker*
Did he have a permit to attach his hammock to the tree?
Well, maybe that Tree didn't want a hammock attached to it. Trees have feelings too, ya know.
If a tree falls in the forest, will an environmentalist hear it? Guess not.
I was expecting him to look a bit more like Michael Moore:
Don't take it to personal. People are just angry with the extreme enviro wack jobs. Not saying he was one, but folks are still very upset at these extremist.
What gave it away..............James?
(actually, it was his middle name, but he used it like his first)
I know that some here will consider me a "speciesist" for asking this question, but inquiring minds want to know.
Was the perp a red oak or a white oak?
I'm really getting sycamore and more of these whackos getting all this free press.
Red
Which by the way did not live up to the title proving once again that the western school systems are failing to teach as most things listed in the song are not ironic at all but are simply unexpected or bad luck which may or may not be ironic.
However in this case a man who has dedicated his life to saving trees being killed by a tree can indeed be classified as ironic.
Must be the Irish in me, the first Joyce I thought of was James Joyce.
Considering the darkness of the humor in this thread, I am guessing it to be a Black Oak.
Being a completely insensitive white male....
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
Snort! Snort! (wipes tears of mirth from eyes)
I can just imagine Shakespeare's wood nymph looking down from her perch in the tree over the hammock, and seeing that the book was made from the tree her mate lived and died in. She screams "Revenge!" and topples the tree on the unsuspecting land shark, er, lawyer.
This is just too rich.
Allow me to quote Nelson from the Simpsons..."Ha Ha"
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