tree sitters in Berkeley

[YTNUKLR]

Dave, they are oak trees http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10395750


Chief of UCB Police sent a letter to the students saying they wanted to deal with the tree-sitters peacefully. 400 students wrote back in favor of removing the tree-sitters more forcefully than they had been doing. [courtesy The Economist a few months ago]

widgeon13- One of these tree-sitters did this in a random tree on campus, out in the central plaza, last semester. He had buckets hanging for his excrement. Like the guys in oak grove, he flung his s*** at police officers before and while being arrested...as a number of students watched

It's a bunch of nonsense, really

[therotman]

Originally Posted by speeder

Scuba Steve, WTH are we watching in that little video? A skydiver whose chute didn't open?

A bear falling out of a tree onto a trampoline

[Scuba Steve]

Originally Posted by speeder

Scuba Steve, WTH are we watching in that little video? A skydiver whose chute didn't open?

Bear in a tree gets tranquilized, people put a trampoline below the tree so the bear won't get hurt when it goes to sleep and falls out of the tree, people forget that bear + trampoline = bounce.

I still think it'd work for those people that want to camp out in trees for whatever dumb reason.

[widgeon13]

Trees will die anyway. The good thing is that they are a renewable resource given that they have adequate space to grow. I have no sympathy for the protesters. Having worked in the paper industry for 35 years and seen wacho's all over the world, get them out of the trees as soon as possible.

We handle them with kid gloves and they try to kill loggers by spiking trees and other stunts, then they run and hide in most cases. Cowards!!

[ikarcuaso]

Tree-sitters came down peacefully today. University struck a "deal"

[Racerbvd]

Should have just shot them down or dropped the tree with them in it

[Rot 911]

Originally Posted by YTNUKLR

Berkeley likes to work peacefully. Sometimes that's good, sometimes that's not. Berkeley is the antithesis of 1984, and I really like that fact. Human rights are highly respected. That includes the right to not be injured by fake bullets or forced to fall out of a tree because of a roving nut-harvesting machine.

Unless you happen to be "The Man" then it is ok to douse you with excretment and urine.

My favorite picture;

[Seric]

If a tree fell in the woods on top of a hippie and the hippie made a noise, would anyone give a s***?

[MRM]

Sorry, dudes, but this does not qualify as a "tense" police standoff where I come from. Sounds a lot like a commute on the BART, except the BART's usually smoke free. You'd get that in the line waiting for the next train.

During the tense standoff, angry protesters screamed at campus police, with one man blowing cigarette smoke into an officer's face. Another officer twice used his arm to push back a man. "Stand back!" the officer yelled.

[sammyg2]

I wonder why these tree sitters and angry protesters weren't at work?

oh, that's right. they don't work. They live off the rest of us who work and then protest against us and the system that supports them.
Useless people. Worse than useless.

[ckissick]

Originally Posted by fintstone

Amazes me how folks from CA can make fun of just about everyone else in the U.S. when they grow folks like this in their own back yard.

We don't grow them. They're trust fund kids from the Hamptons.

[Mule]

Did they use the metalstorm?

[sammyg2]

If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? Yes. Chuck Norris hears it. Chuck Norris can hear everything.

[varmint]

dennis prager covered this on the radio the other day. he played audio of something that sounded like a woman weeping hysterically as a tree was cut down. he was speechless. someone called in to talk about a professor who compared logging to the holocaust in class.

we have gone from animal rights, to plant rights. rock rights are next.

[Rick Lee]

I would have happily set that tree on fire. Chainsaw takes too much effort and I'd liek to watch those losers suffer.

[Mule]

Metalstorm!

[vash]

whatever....they believe what they believe. what gets me is them "going the extra distance". i am cautious, very cautious of any fanatic.

[Mo_Gearhead]

Re: The video.

Pffft!

...much rather watch T. Soprano weeping in his therapist's office, concerning his mommy and that rat, trigger-happy Uncle!