Tree Sitter dies in fall [Earth First! alert]

Sacramento Bee ^ | 11:35 a.m. PDT Thursday, October 10, 2002 | AP

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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.

[drc43]

"from the area where a group of tree-sitters has been camped since August

How do these people make a living? Who pays their way through life?

[Lady Jag]

So if a tree-sitter falls in the forest you do hear him. Otherwise he wouldn't have been rescued. I'm sorry he died but Darwin was right.

[mbynack]

We need to ban trees. They're dangerous.

Who do you sue in a case like this?

[Guillermo]

Someone is obviously supplying them w/ food and water.

The owners and/or rightsholders of the land should simply prevent trespassing.

[dfwgator]

Who do you sue in a case like this?

I nominate Julia Hill, she inspired this guy.

[TheDon]

Now that is a dedicated environmentalist! He decided to end his own contribution of CO2 and global warming.

[Redcloak]

He's fertilizer now.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Actually, lets encourage more of this. This could be a great ending to a plague in the US.

[1Old Pro]

Isn't this the second time an environut fell and died in the past year?

[Willie Green]

I'm sorry he died but Darwin was right.

So was Sir Isacc Newton.

[Gurn]

It wasn't the fall that killed him. It was the sudden stop at the ground.

Seriously, though, I think we need some meaningful, common-sense tree-control legislation.

[gridlock]

He didn't hit the Earth First!

He hit several branches on the way down.

[Lady Jag]

He should probably sue his parents for shorting him on brain cells...if he lived.

[tom paine 2]

In the interest of Mother Earth, they should have covered him with quick lime and dirt and he could have become plant food for that big Redwood.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Did he bounce?

[DETAILER]

both of them likely ("hold mah pipe" alert)

[Zon]

I agree. From a thread earlier today:

It was the tree sitter that initiated force when he trespassed. Self-defense force used to remove the tree sitter would be to defend ones property rights. Judge Yonts willfully violated the property owner's rights by catering to the criminal. He may even be partially responsible for the tree sitters death. Tree-sitter injured in fall from redwood

[SerpentDove]

Timberrrrrrrrr!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

HA!!