*Enviralists Bump
Posted on 10/10/2002 12:23:44 PM PDT by timpad
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:45:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
CORRALITOS, Calif.(AP) - A man with the environmental activist group Earth First! has died after a 50-foot fall from a redwood tree in which he'd lived for several weeks.
Rescue personnel were called to the scene of a logging operation in the Ramsey Gulch area about 20-miles south of San Jose on Tuesday night after loggers heard moans coming from the area where a group of tree-sitters has been camped since August, the group said. It was unclear how long the injured man had been on the ground.
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Hilarious.
Makes perfectly natural sense to me ...
A tale from one of the Buddha's previous lives, as retold by Phra Depvedi
The king's park-keeper wanted to celebrate a festival in the city. Therefore be wanted to find some people to water the trees so that he could take a leave for a week or so. He wondered to himself, 'How can I find some people to look after the trees?' Then he thought of the monkeys in the park.
He summoned the chief monkey. 'Can you water the trees for me during my leave?'
The chief monkey said, 'Oh, sure.'
The park-keeper said to him, 'Here are the watering pots. Please tell the monkeys in this park to water the trees while I am gone.' Then he went away.
When the time came for watering the trees, the chief monkey said to the other monkeys who had gathered to take the watering pots, 'One moment, please. We have to use water economically. How can we do so? We have to water the trees according to their needs. How can we know the needs of the trees? The tree with long roots needs uch water; the tree with short roots needs less water. We should make a division of labor by dividing the monkeys into groups.
Two monkeys to a group: One monkey pulls up the tree to see if it has long or short roots. The other monkey, when he sees, "'Oh, this one has short roots" -- waters it less. If it has long roots, he should water it more.'
The monkeys divided their labor in this way. They watered all the trees in the garden park, and all the trees died. Then a wise man came and saw what the monkeys were doing. The chief monkey, who considered himself very wise, explained his orders. Then the wise man uttered this stanza:
A foolish person, even when he wants to do something good, may instead do something that leads to destruction.
Case like this must really frustrate the lawyers, what with the difficulty in obtaining the "victim's" testimony and all.
Hahahahaha....
...I'm not.
Only if they are buried in a taxpayer funded coffin and plot!
"Only you can prevent forest falls, Dude."
Where does one go to receive proper training in the highly skilled profession of 'tree sitting'? Sounds like OSHA should get involved since he wasn't properly trained in the safety aspects his job? Why don't 'tree sitters' have to be state liscensed like plumbers and other tradesmen? I have a thousand more questions I'd like to ask.....
As a follow up, Butterfly called her tree - "Luna." Not long after she came down from "Luna" someone made some serious cuts on "Luna" and almost killed the tree. I'm surprised no one called this a "hate" crime. (Yipes! I might give these tree huggers some ideas.)
Too late! They've been using that absurd canard since a few days after the incident. Check this quote from the official Julia Butterfly No-Life Professional Agitator Hill website, located at: http://www.circleoflifefoundation.org/lunanews/
What You Can Do for Luna FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2000 Thank you for all of the prayers and concern that you have shown for Luna. Many people have expressed a desire to make a pilgrimage to Luna. She is extremely vulnerable and we are concerned about any unnecessary pressure to her root system. The grove surrounding Luna is also a crime site and as you can imagine we don't want to inadvertently destroy any evidence about the perpetrators of this hate crime. Julia suggests that anyone who wants to visit Luna plant a tree in honor of what Luna symbolizes: perseverance, strength and healing. Read more.
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