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BERKELEY: Injured tree sitter ordered to stay away
Contra Costa Times ^ | 11/14/7 | Kristin Bender

Posted on 11/14/2007 1:23:03 PM PST by SmithL

Man given injunction carrying fine, jail time or both if he goes to grove

— OAKLAND — As fallen tree sitter Nathaniel Hall was recovering from a broken arm and a broken leg he sustained in a three-story fall from an oak earlier this week, University of California, Berkeley police served him a seven-day stay-away order at his hospital bed.

Hill was also served with an injunction that carries a $1,000 fine, five days in jail or both if he goes back to the grove, a university spokesman said Tuesday.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Keller ruled in late October that all tree sitters are trespassing and lodging illegally and must come down or face punishment.

Hill, 24, said it was the excitement about seeing his father, Carl Hill, down below the tree grove that led to the fall. "I thought I was hooking myself onto a traverse line," said Hill from his hospital bed at Highland Hospital on Tuesday. "My father was on the ground and I was excited and I hopped off and flew."

Hill called Sunday's 8:30 p.m. fall an "out of body experience."

"I feel like I watched myself float down," he said.

"I remember thinking, 'Oh (explicative)' and then I hit the ground," he added.

People have been living on wooden platforms in trees next to California Memorial Stadium at UC Berkeley since last December. They are protesting the university's plan to raze the trees and build a $125 million sports training facility there.

A native of Buffalo, N.Y., and a former professional lacrosse player for the Los Angeles Riptide, Hill said he came to the grove last December after doing old-growth forest protection work in Humboldt County.

He has been assisting with the tree sit since and has spent scores of days and nights living in a tree and doing ground support work, he said.

When the protest started the grove was open and tree sitters came and went at their leisure.

Tree sitters started using traverse lines to ferry food, water and people into and out of the grove after a chain-link fence was put up by the university as a safety precaution when the football season started in August. A second fence went up last week.

Three groups have sued UC Berkeley to try and stop construction of the sports training center because of safety and other concerns. The center is slated to be built near the stadium, which straddles the Hayward earthquake fault.

A trial for the three consolidated lawsuits was held before Alameda County Superior Court Judge Barbara Miller earlier this fall. A ruling in the case could come this week.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: beserkeley; fallingmoonbats; treesitter
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Shaking the fruits and nuts out of the trees.
1 posted on 11/14/2007 1:23:05 PM PST by SmithL
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BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


2 posted on 11/14/2007 1:24:59 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: SmithL
Don't take the brown acid man....
3 posted on 11/14/2007 1:25:41 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (Columbia = Ayatollah U.)
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To: SmithL

Some “out of body experience.” Who pays the hospital bills?


4 posted on 11/14/2007 1:28:05 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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As fallen tree sitter Nathaniel Hall was recovering from a broken arm and a broken leg he sustained in a three-story fall from an oak earlier this week...

He regrets that he has but one more leg to give for his country!

But, seriesly, what a maroon.

And if the University has not cut that transverse line yet, they deserve whatever they get.

5 posted on 11/14/2007 1:28:26 PM PST by gridlock (Recycling is the new Religion.)
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To: SmithL

Three words for this guy...

Get a job.


6 posted on 11/14/2007 1:29:26 PM PST by Slapshot68
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To: SmithL

Explicative?

I think Kristin meant to substitute “expletive” but like so many news gerbils in the MSM she works under the “more letters sounds more intelligent” theory even if it’s the wrong word altogether.


7 posted on 11/14/2007 1:30:28 PM PST by relictele
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To: SmithL

He hopped and flew. Lovely. How’s come he didn’t land on that empty head of his?


8 posted on 11/14/2007 1:30:59 PM PST by trimom
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To: SmithL

Gravity - it’s the law.


9 posted on 11/14/2007 1:31:31 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Conservatives - Freedom WITH responsibility; Libertarians - Freedom FROM responsibility)
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Hill, 24, said it was the excitement about seeing his father, Carl Hill

Dad must be SOOOOOOOO proud.

10 posted on 11/14/2007 1:32:24 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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11 posted on 11/14/2007 1:32:25 PM PST by SmithL (I don't do Barf Alerts, you're old enough to read and decide for yourself)
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To: relictele
I think Kristin meant to substitute “expletive” but like so many news gerbils in the MSM she works under the “more letters sounds more intelligent” theory even if it’s the wrong word altogether.

Yeah, but they get away with it because it still works on more than half of those who actually still read newspapers and watch the nightly news.

12 posted on 11/14/2007 1:32:47 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Conservatives - Freedom WITH responsibility; Libertarians - Freedom FROM responsibility)
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Nathaniel Hall was recovering from a broken arm and a broken leg he sustained in a three-story fall from an oak earlier this week,

I'd pay cash money to see a video of this ... I wonder if he bounced

13 posted on 11/14/2007 1:33:37 PM PST by tx_eggman ("Believing without loving turns the best of creeds into a weapon of oppression" Eugene Peterson)
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To: SmithL

Does the university have the necessary building permits, etc? If so, where in hell are the guys with the chain saws? I bet the sound of a Husqvarna sputtering to life would end the protest post haste!


14 posted on 11/14/2007 1:33:39 PM PST by Don Carlos (No 8 Do.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

“Gravity - it’s the law.”
Typical linear western way of thinking. Gaia is not pleased with your planetary stereotypes. Watch as I float out of this tree.


15 posted on 11/14/2007 1:35:18 PM PST by DancesWithBolsheviks (Peace through victory.)
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explicative

adjective
Serving to explain: elucidative, exegetic, explanative, explanatory, expositive, expository, hermeneutic, hermeneutical, illustrative, interpretative, interpretive. See explain

16 posted on 11/14/2007 1:36:19 PM PST by SmithL (I don't do Barf Alerts, you're old enough to read and decide for yourself)
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To: SmithL
Neath the spreading oaken tree the village idiot lay.
From lofty heights in the stupid tree, he doth flail away

Til with a dull thud he lands and abrupt his fall does end
With only broken limbs and teeth to mend

Alas, No Darwin Prize this day.

17 posted on 11/14/2007 1:37:59 PM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: SmithL
weenie! Nothin to it!


18 posted on 11/14/2007 1:38:03 PM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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an injunction that carries a $1,000 fine, five days in jail or both if he goes back to the grove,

Looks like this should serve as motivation for the fruit to fall far from the tree...
19 posted on 11/14/2007 1:41:05 PM PST by philled ("CNBC?...You might as well be doing ham radio at that point."-- Dennis Miller)
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To: SmithL

..."perhaps with a certain amount of luck and a great blessing of good fortune...Does anyone have a clip of the cretin testing the law of gravity?..hmmmm?

20 posted on 11/14/2007 1:41:40 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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