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Breaking: LA Sheriff Preparing to Oust Tree Sitter
Various | 01/10/03

Posted on 01/10/2003 9:27:43 PM PST by socal_parrot

LA Sheriff Deputies and LA County Fire Department are moving in with equipment to remove Tree Sitter John Quiqley. They have brought in ladder trucks and are positioning them extract the wacko from the perch he has occupied since November. Quigley has been trying to halt the removal of a 400 year old oak tree dubbed "Old Glory". The tree was slated to be removed as part of a construction project. The builder has offerred to move the oak, but activists say the oak will not survive.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: enviralists; environazi; treehugger; treesitter; wacko
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Deputies and Fire Fighters are withing arms length of Quigley.
1 posted on 01/10/2003 9:27:43 PM PST by socal_parrot
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
!!!!!!
2 posted on 01/10/2003 9:29:20 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Proud owner of a new gas guzzlin', road hoggin' SUV!)
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To: socal_parrot
I've got a better idea: termites.
3 posted on 01/10/2003 9:29:33 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: *Enviralists
bump
4 posted on 01/10/2003 9:29:43 PM PST by The Obstinate Insomniac
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To: socal_parrot
Fire up the saws, he'll come down one way or the other.
5 posted on 01/10/2003 9:30:20 PM PST by bigfootbob
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To: socal_parrot
Property law trumps liberal snivelers.

Timber!

6 posted on 01/10/2003 9:30:49 PM PST by PRND21
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To: Brad's Gramma
Quigley has been served moments ago and will be forcibly removed within a half-hour.
7 posted on 01/10/2003 9:30:50 PM PST by socal_parrot (Live long, prosper.)
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To: socal_parrot

Paul and Babe at your service, sheriff.

8 posted on 01/10/2003 9:31:55 PM PST by APBaer
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To: Brad's Gramma; socal_parrot
Thanks for the ping!

socal_parrot - where is this happening?
9 posted on 01/10/2003 9:32:15 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: APBaer
He apparently has his hand is some sort of lockbox around a tree limb. No word if it came from Al Gore.
10 posted on 01/10/2003 9:33:03 PM PST by socal_parrot (Beavers would work too.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Stevenson Ranch in Santa Clarita. Live on Channel 9.
11 posted on 01/10/2003 9:33:47 PM PST by socal_parrot (Beavers would work too.)
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12 posted on 01/10/2003 9:33:57 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: socal_parrot
Live on K-Cal 9 in Los Angeles.
15-30 minutes until forced removal.
13 posted on 01/10/2003 9:34:12 PM PST by PRND21
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To: hole_n_one
I was just about to ping you. Thanks.
14 posted on 01/10/2003 9:34:58 PM PST by socal_parrot
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To: socal_parrot
I hope they use a dart gun and a net.

It's so much more humane.

15 posted on 01/10/2003 9:35:10 PM PST by Interesting Times
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To: homeschool mama
Here!
16 posted on 01/10/2003 9:35:33 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Proud owner of a new gas guzzlin', road hoggin' SUV!)
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To: Interesting Times
Activists are trying to get to the site.
17 posted on 01/10/2003 9:36:30 PM PST by socal_parrot
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To: socal_parrot
Chainsaw bump.
18 posted on 01/10/2003 9:36:40 PM PST by Newbomb Turk
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To: hole_n_one
Pic #1......why are those people laying on the ground? WHO are those people?
19 posted on 01/10/2003 9:36:54 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Proud owner of a new gas guzzlin', road hoggin' SUV!)
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To: Interesting Times
Screw the net...
20 posted on 01/10/2003 9:38:14 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (We've got Armadillos in our trousers. It's really quite frightening.)
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