Berkeley Tree Sitter Falls (Man Suffers Broken Arm And Leg)

NBC11 ^ | November 12, 2007

[nickcarraway]

BERKELEY, Calif. -- On Sunday evening a Memorial Oak Grove tree-sitter fell from the supply-line that is used to ferry food, water and people into and out of the tree-sit protest.

The traverse-line was created after the university erected a fence around the tree-sitters and spans from a tree inside the fenced in area to a tree outside the fence.

Nathaniel Hill, the fallen tree-sitter, was moving on the traverse line to meet his father, Carl Hill, who had come from the east coast to visit his son.

Hill was taken to Highland Hospital where he was treated for a broken arm above the wrist and a broken leg above the ankle.

"If the University had not put up the fence this wouldn't have happened," said Zachary Running Wolf, the organizer of the tree sit-in. "They created this situation where we have to move in and out of the grove on that traverse line."

University spokesman Dan Mogulof says the fall is not the university's fault.

"The accident is very regrettable but to state the obvious, completely avoidable," he said. "Things like this wouldn't happen if people who are illegally occupying university property were obeying the law."

Meanwhile, Judge Barbara Miller is set to render her decision any day on the legality of the university's expansion plans for the area.

The university also recently built a second fence surrounding the grove.

UC Police Chief Victoria Harrison said that the school built the new fence as a security measure prior to the forcible removal of the protesters from the trees.

[VOA]

Nathaniel Hill, the fallen tree-sitter, was moving on the traverse line
to meet his father, Carl Hill, who had come from the east coast to
visit his son.

"Son, an occupation as an unpaid tree-sitter with broken limbs
is no way to go through life. I'd prefer you'd make an upgrade to
just fat, drunk and stupid!"

[pepperdog]

I’ll bet we do in one way or another.

[bray]

If a Maggot Infested Hippie fell out of a Tree and nobody Smelled it...

Pray for W and Our Veterans

[BabsC]

OK, you got me.....

Made me scare the dogs.

[Eagles6]

Some people are like Slinkies. They are completely useless but you can’t help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

[hophead]

Just saw a video of these ‘tree sitters’. I do have to say, it looks like fun in another setting.

[oh8eleven]

Profile of Treesitter Zachary RunningWolf
[snip] "This guy’s a real gem. He never went to Cal; he simply graduated from Berkeley High School. He’s 43 ..."

Berkeley Mayoral Candidate Statements: Zachary RunningWolf
Berkeley mayoral candidate awaits trial for allegedly vandalizing city property.

[atomic conspiracy]

At the risk of belaboring the obvious, these people are totalitarians because they attempt to use force and intimidation to create policy changes they cannot bring about through persuasion or legal action.

They assume the right to force others to meet their demands, regardless of democratic or other lawful processes. The rampant thuggery practiced by Greenpeace’s elite “adventure sports” group is the classic example.

Active collusion by the institutional media is the only thing that keeps these criminals from being arrested, convicted, and thrown in prison where they belong.

[Viking2002]

Screw the primate that violated it - was the tree injured?!? :-)

[hoosierham]

Why is this news?

This is FALL ,after all.

[GRRRRR]

I saw it too, on Fox Brit’s show....did you see the TV?!?!?

They had a TV in the TREE!!!

[WorkingClassFilth]

The traverse-line was created after the university erected a fence around the tree-sitters and spans from a tree inside the fenced in area to a tree outside the fence.

These damn liberal Universities! Where were the punji stakes embedded beneath the travese lines to take care of situations such as this?

[wizr]

His father came out to help him ‘cause.....
he was up a tree and broke.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

“As God is my witness, I thought hippies could fly!!!”

[maine-iac7]

"If... the University WE had not put up the fence this wouldn't have happened," said Zachary Running Wolf, the organizer of the tree sit-in. "They created this situation ... - it wouldn't have happened."

There

[atomic conspiracy]

ROFLMAO!

Post of the day!

[clinkclink]

So did they!! LOL!

[maine-iac7]

Newtons Law applies to everything above the ground

If they were in class, instead, and if the colleges still actually taught - he would've known that...

[hophead]

I bet they had wireless net access too. No doubt blogging on DU.

[maine-iac7]

Did anyone hear him?