Tree Sitter dies in fall [Earth First! alert]

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

[timpad]

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.

[zipper]

So the tree he was "saving" killed him-- seems analagous to Lt Neidermeyer's fate, "killed in Vietnam by his own troops"

[MikalM]

In other words, there were other Earth Firsters around, but they wouldn't give up their place in the tree to save this guy. The life of the tree was more important.

This doesn't surprise me one bit. I was involved in the neo-Pagan/Wiccan spiritual scene for about ten years. Even when I SYMPATHIZED with "Earth-based religion" I was appalled at the callous misanthropy of the Earth First! types who infest that movement. They LITERALLY WANTED BILLIONS OF HUMANS TO DIE to "save the Earth" from destruction. That kind of heartless, brainless nihilism, coupled with their navel-gazing self-absorption that completely excludes unhip patriarchal concepts like honor, loyalty and common decency towards other humans, guarantees scenarios like this. Perhaps if these creeps had been like old-school radicals, who at least HELPED fallen comrades during struggles, this man might have lived.

[monkeyshine]

Does this qualify as a "hold muh shot of wheatgrass" alert?

[Trajan88]

Loggers should chop down those trees with sitters in them first.

TIIIIMBER!

Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88; Law Hall (may it R.I.P.) Ramp 9 Mule; F.U.P.

[paul51]

We need to ban trees. They're dangerous.

First we register all of them.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Who pays their way through life?

Got a mirror?

[ol' hoghead]

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

You gotta watch out for that second step.

[MikalM]

Yipes, again ! It's scary to joke about these kind of absurdities. They come true!

I think it was Lily Tomlin who said, "No matter how cynical you get these days, you can NEVER KEEP UP!"

[CAfraudPI]

So trees would be carnivorous? The irony, I can't take it.

[logic101.net]

Interesting; had it not been for loggers, who this eco-whaco was protesting, he may have died. I wonder, did he spit in the face of his rescuers? Does he have any gratitude to them? Would he have done the same for one of them? Or for a lone hunter who was hurt?

MARK A SITY
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[Veggie Todd]

They need to repeal the Law of Gravity.

Yes, apparently the Liberals haven't found a way around that law yet. It has to go.

Didn't Al Gore invent gravity?

[logic101.net]

OOPS! I didn't catch the part about his death!

MARK A SITY

[hoosierham]

Call the Police Academy stars ! If they could get a CAT out of a tree...

[StormEye]

"Tree-sitter dead after fall from tree in Corralitos"

Maybe the Earth should now be plastered with government mandated labels that state "The Earth Could BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH SHOULD YOU SLIP AND FALL ONTO IT. IT IS A FELONY TO REMOVE THIS LABEL."

Another thought: Just wait until these enviro-psychos start demanding protection for rocks and boulders. I'm predicting it!

[abclily]

Too funny!!! Thanks for the laugh!

[Sawdring]

Looks like a militia convention.

[cmsgop]

Or the parking lot of a Dead Show.....

[IronJack]

Maybe "Earth First" should change its name to "Earth Last." After all, the last thing that went through this clod's brain was a small part of California.

[Post Toasties]

Idle question:

Why don't tree sitters use some sort of safety gear?

I figure it probably has something to do with their lefty persuasion: perhaps they think falling out of trees impresses.