[Not gonna take it anymore]

It looks like they trimmed those trees within an inch of their lives.

I used to drive past a house where they did the same thing. They basically cut all the way to the trunk and then these itty bitty branches grow. This is mutilation and wasteful. This last year the trees finally gave up and died.

Get an arborist to trim your trees.

[donhunt]

The church owns the trees. Why don’t you just mind your own f’n business?

[AAABEST]

They basically cut all the way to the trunk and then these itty bitty branches grow. This is mutilation and wasteful. This last year the trees finally gave up and died.

Who gives a s***? They're trees.

Your sentimental post sounds more like they were painfully cutting limbs from a family member, as opposed to something made of freaking WOOD.

[mewykwistmas]

It looks like they trimmed those trees within an inch of their lives.
I used to drive past a house where they did the same thing. They basically cut all the way to the trunk and then these itty bitty branches grow. This is mutilation and wasteful. This last year the trees finally gave up and died.
Get an arborist to trim your trees.

Imagine the pain those trees felt. We should appoint a court guardian and psychologist for them.

"Get an arborist to trim your trees..." that's on my next to do list, right after getting a nanny to tie my shoes. Memo to you: They're trees. Just trees. If you cut them too much one year, you let them grow the next. In the unlikely event that they die, use them for heat and plant new ones.

[heartwood]

There is someone in town, big fancy house, who subjects his trees to that fancy European pruning system known as pollarding, which is abhorrent to the finely tuned naturalistic soul of one such as myself.

Nonetheless, covet not thine neighbor's ox, nor ass, nor trees. They're his dang ugly trees.

[bigfootbob]

Pay for it...they are my trees, YES?

Branches grow back, politicians lose jobs for stunts like this rightfully so.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Are you talking about Crape Myrtles? Are you familiar with them? Do you have one?

Does that look improper to you?

[B Knotts]

Whose trees are they?

[Grizzled Bear]

Carrot Juice Is Murder
Lyrics by The Arrogant Worms

Listen up brothers and sisters, come hear my desperate tale
I speak of our friends of nature, trapped in the dirt like a jail
Vegetables live in oppression, served on our tables each night
This killing of veggies is madness, I say we take up the fight
Salads are only for murderers, cole slaw's a fascist regime Don't think that they don't have feelings, just cause a radish can't scream

Chorus:
I've heard the screams of the vegetables(Scream... scream... scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (Having their insides revealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy..(Burning off calories)
How do you think that feels? (That it hurts really bad)
Carrot juice constitutes murder..(And that's a real crime)
greenhouses prisons for slaves (Let my vegetables go!)
It's time to stop all this gardening..(It's dirty as hell)
Let's call a spade a spade. (is a spade is a spade is a)

I saw a man eating celery, so I beat him black and blue
If he ever touches a sprout again, I'll bite him clean in two
I'm a political prisoner, trapped in a windowless cage
‘Cause I stopped the slaughter of turnips, by killing five men in a rage
I told the judge when he sentenced me, “This is my finest hour!
I'd kill those farmers again, just to save one more cauliflower!”

CHORUS

How low as people do we dare to stoop?
Making young broccolis bleed in the soup
Untie your beans! Uncage your tomatoes!
Let potted plants free! Don't mash that potato!! Whoa!... Whoa!... Whoa!...

I've heard the screams of the vegetables(Scream... scream... scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (Into the stirfryer sealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy..(You fat gourmet slob)
How do you think that feels? (Leave them out in the field)
Carrot juice constitutes murder..(V-8’s genocide)
greenhouses prisons for slaves (yes, your composts are graves)
It's time to stop all this gardening..(Take Up macrame)
Let's call a spade a spade. (is a spade is a spade is a)