Two men were found guilty on Friday of cutting down Britain’s ‘Sycamore Gap’ tree two years ago, felling the much-loved landmark whose dramatic silhouette had featured in a Hollywood movie in what prosecutors described as a “moronic mission”.
The sycamore, estimated to be almost 200 years old, stood at the centre of a dramatic dip in the landscape alongside the historic Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, making it a popular spot for photographers, hikers and even marriage proposals.
The felling also caused damage to part of Hadrian’s Wall, built by the Romans almost 2,000 years ago and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
“People are enjoying a tree, and I took that personally.”
I thought these were teenagers, but one of them is almost 40, and the other is over 30. What assholes.
Right so! Bloody trees think the world belongs to them. It’s about time to show them who’s got the chainsaws. Did the trees help us in WWII? Did they do anything for us except luring on roadsides and killing innocent motorists? Face it, the days of trees are over.
Fucking morons. So they basically did it just to piss everybody off. I hope they really get the book thrown at them.
This is exactly the level of maturity people like that display during elections btw
We’ll prosecute these tree fellers but not the billionaires destroying the environment as a whole.
You’re right, but that’s not reason not to prosecute these lowlifes.
Oh, for sure. Agree completely.
b3ta.com is still going? bloody hell it’s brilliant
Yep!
What a pair of melts.
Filmed the act, kept the wedge as a trophy and one of them grassed the other one up to the pigs.
How on earth did it take the jury that long to decide?
Was lunch included?
Why would sleepy joe allow this to happen?!
The National Trust, a heritage conservation charity which looks after the site, said last August there were signs of life at the base of the tree, giving hope it might live on.
It’ll never be the same in our lifetime, but maybe one day it will return to its former glory.
felling the much-loved landmark whose dramatic silhouette had featured in a Hollywood movie in what prosecutors described as a “moronic mission”.
Well won’t be watching that “moronic” movie then.
The movie has nothing to do with the tree being cut down. They’re saying that the tree was used in a movie, and the “moronic mission” was the two men deciding to cut it down
I was being facetious. (Edit) because the paragraph made it sound like the prosecutors were referring to the movie being moronic.
Ahh fair enough
