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Star tree
We are so upset and so veryvery angry!!! The idiots who run our apartment complex cut down this beautiful, wonderful living tree today. It was right in front of our neighbor's house, and it provided a little shade for our apartment. The front of our apartment faces west, so it gets extremely hot in the afternoon when the sun shines full on it. We've burned ourselves on our metal front door before.
Molly and I were just sobbing about it. We stormed over to the management office and demanded to know why they'd slaughtered it. The person there hemmed and hawed about some dead stuff in it and liability, etc. Just trim the dead stuff out, idiots! Then she said that the seed bobbles (she called them burrs) were the reason -- people twisted their ankles on them or something. NO GOOD REASON!!!!!
And now the poor tree is dead. It was a beautiful sweetgum tree with star shaped leaves and spikey seed bobbles. When they cut it down, you could see that there was even a star in the center of the trunk. Moronic losers, not respecting living things. They already took out 47 ash trees in the complex this year. They said that we still have lots of trees. Not by our place. And that is no excuse to lose this one. The olive tree across the road that provided some shade blew down in a storm this summer. I love trees. I hate people who destroy them.
Molly and I were just sobbing about it. We stormed over to the management office and demanded to know why they'd slaughtered it. The person there hemmed and hawed about some dead stuff in it and liability, etc. Just trim the dead stuff out, idiots! Then she said that the seed bobbles (she called them burrs) were the reason -- people twisted their ankles on them or something. NO GOOD REASON!!!!!
And now the poor tree is dead. It was a beautiful sweetgum tree with star shaped leaves and spikey seed bobbles. When they cut it down, you could see that there was even a star in the center of the trunk. Moronic losers, not respecting living things. They already took out 47 ash trees in the complex this year. They said that we still have lots of trees. Not by our place. And that is no excuse to lose this one. The olive tree across the road that provided some shade blew down in a storm this summer. I love trees. I hate people who destroy them.
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There are people who get it. I was driving down the road about a week ago when I saw a truck that was clearly used in the landscaping business. It had a bumper sticker that made me want to cheer - it had a picture of one of those poor trees with all the limbs cut off to make it "fuller" with a slash through it, and it said "Tree topping hurts". I was unhappy that there was no business name or phone nnumber on the truck - any business that features that bumper sticker is one I would support!
We have lost too many trees to the saws where I live too, and it makes me want to cry. I don't want grass, I want a beautiful tree! If it's in the way, then go around!
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