Tree Squatters in Memorial Park

KHOU.com ^ | 7/7/03 | 11 News Staff Reports

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[Liberal Classic]

Since no one is logging in Memorial Park I guess they feel safe from being felled.

[Welsh Rabbit]

One of the trees has been named "Gypsy" in honor of David "Gypsy" Chain, a Houston activist who had moved to Humboldt and died in 1998 fighting for the trees.

Soldiers, police officers, and firemen die fighting. This loser probably had one too many bong hits and tripped over his feet.

[Zippo44]

You know, I've been wondering where to throw away of some old bottles of skunk scent. I think the base of that tree is the perfect disposal site.

[Ditter]

If these "enviros" used shoe spikes to climb those massive pine trees, they may have sentanced the trees to death. Pinebark bettles smell the pine scent whenever the bark is damaged on a pine tree & will come from a 1/4 mile radius to bore into the tree. They kill the tree within a week. The only thing that might save the trees is the wet rainy weather we are having, the pests are more prevelent in dry hot weather. I just drove thru Memorial Park twice, I didn't see anything unusual. I wonder where they are.

[Ditter]

Forgot to mention there are big thunder storms with lots of lightning strikes in the area. I wouldn't want to be up in a tall tree right now. I'll bet they are down now.

[jonascord]

We can only hope that they are still up there, using an aluminum frame tent for shelter...

[bicycle thug]

Actually, the cutter who dropped the tree that hit David Chain had threatened to drop trees on activists playing cat and mouse in days previous to Chain's death. Which is a big reason for the wrongful death lawsuit filed by his family.

After the death and a visit by California forestry officials, citation were written for violations committed by Pacific Lumber Company. These were the same violations the activists had been playing 'cat and mouse' over.

Regardless how anyone feels about logging, the death of a young man this way is never something to celebrate over. Basically, Palco should have been obeying the law when they were logging. Then the activists wouldn't have had any excuse to be there.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[r9etb]

Actually, the cutter who dropped the tree that hit David Chain had threatened to drop trees on activists playing cat and mouse in days previous to Chain's death. Which is a big reason for the wrongful death lawsuit filed by his family.

Considering the difficulties inherent in aiming a large tree at a moving target, one finds it rather difficult to support the idea that Chain was anything more than slow and stupid.

The logger is still liable because he was cutting trees in an unsafe manner -- rather like a guy shooting a gun without checking what was behind his target. But it's still a stretch to argue that Chain was not partially culpable for putting himself in line with the tree.

[Cicero]

If they want to stay up in these trees until they get their way, why not just let them stay there? It seems like a good place for them.

[bicycle thug]

Actually, chain was youth and very fast. As someone who has worked on many forest fires and seen many trees and snags fall, I know how hard it is to duck.

Trees fall exponentually faster as they fall. By the time the poor slob knew it was coming, he was like a dog a foot or two from being wasted by a speeding truck.

Remember too that there was still brushy stuff blocking the view of falling trees from those on the ground.

The cutting basically should have ceased when there was an unregulated presence of people on site. No death is worth not taking every possible safety procaution to prevent it. Chain did not deserve a death sentence for his actions. The cutter obviously cared more about making Palco some money then he was in safe guarding lives.

[quark]

"Two activists @$$holes from California..."

[Welsh Rabbit]

You're right, the young's man death is nothing to celebrate. But what did he die for? Was it really about the trees, or was it to promote watermelon socialism?

[bicycle thug]

He was newly from Austin, Texas that summer. He had been to an EF! Rendezvous and other actions and events that summer. In all likelyhood, after his vacation in La La Land, he would have settled down to the job of being your average everyday Texan. Man of the wild, long haired crazys I knew in college in the 70s are quite tame job and family types these days.

That is basically why I view this the way I do. He came because of the Earth First! sales pitch and his idealism. He could and likely would have recovered from that.

There is a constant stream of young folk that go through this phase. Killing them all for their stupidity is not resonable. In any event, thank you for your imput.

[dljordan]

That's perfect! I wonder if there's a way to get skunk scent into paintballs? Maybe a slingshot, yeah that's it! When are we goin'.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Pepper spray paintballs are made for riot control.

[dljordan]

I used to be a member of EF myself. I lasted until I got a real good look at how absolutely insane some of these people are. They don't seem to be in touch with reality. We were in Tennessee in the 80's and these Gomers (most of them from the big cities up north) just couldn't understand that a Tennessee Redneck Mountain Logger will shoot your butt in a heartbeat and his cousin the sheriff will rule it suicide.

[bicycle thug]

LOL! I believe you. Myself, I was punched out while walking out of a fleabag laundrymat in a tiny Idaho town my crew was planting trees nearby in a USFS planting contract.

The guy was pissed because a Mexican on our crew had been talking to local girls. Hell, that was a heck of a way to get a sore jaw.

I didn't even get to pinch one well rounded female butt for my trouble.