The Iconic tree at Sycamore Gap felled. (3 Viewers)

[dash300]

Don't use Gormley for a tree, this was his effort of a man in Plymouth!

 

[jumartoo]

Who would benefit? Or just another act of mindless vandalism by someone with hardly any braincells!!

It's hard for us normal people to comprehend.

 

[scotjimland]

Let's hope they get caught a feel the full force of the law ..hanging would be too good ..

Anyone involved in the illegal felling of trees can be punishable with unlimited fines and prison sentences from 1 January 2023.

Illegal Tree Felling in England to be Made Punishable - Arbtech

Prison sentences and unlimited fines are expected to be brought into law for anyone within England found guilty of tree felling illegally.

arbtech.co.uk

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[Barryh]

What a crying shame that is. We had our campsite up there and Sycamore Gap was an unexpected gem for lots of our visitors.

 

[Langtoftlad]

Let's hope they get caught a feel the full force of the law ..hanging would be too good ..

Anyone involved in the illegal felling of trees can be punishable with unlimited fines and prison sentences from 1 January 2023.

Illegal Tree Felling in England to be Made Punishable - Arbtech

Prison sentences and unlimited fines are expected to be brought into law for anyone within England found guilty of tree felling illegally.

arbtech.co.uk

Trouble is that whatever the penalty for the perpetrator, it can never replace what's been destroyed.

 

[scotjimland]

Trouble is that whatever the penalty for the perpetrator, it can never replace what's been destroyed.

like many other crimes.. the punishment doesn't undo the harm caused, but gives small comfort to the grieving and may deter others ..

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[Gromett]

Local suggestion is for a metal tree sculpture and it has some support

That would be brilliant, but I would also plant a small avenue of trees as well if the ground would support it.

Maddening when things like this happens. Really should be 10 years in prison for something like this with no time off for good behaviour.

 

[Littlewheels]

Car parking in the central section of the wall covering a lot of miles is in secluded quite isolated car parks some favoured by wilding Motorhomes.

My goodness that makes it even more bewildering, who would have such a motive?
Looking at the Media images l would suggest a handsaw of some description was used as there doesn’t appear to be sawdust thrown out that you would get with a chainsaw, therefore,the item could be hidden and carried quire easily.

l wonder if there’s any historical damage to the tree.

 

[AndyPK]

A sixteen year-old had been arrested in connection with the felling…….

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[Littlewheels]

We’ll look at this BBC news;

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the felling of one of the UK's most iconic trees.

 

[MattR]

My goodness that makes it even more bewildering, who would have such a motive?
Looking at the Media images l would suggest a handsaw of some description was used as there doesn’t appear to be sawdust thrown out that you would get with a chainsaw, therefore,the item could be hidden and carried quire easily.

l wonder if there’s any historical damage to the tree.

A handsaw would have taken a long time and would have had to be wider than the tree...it would have been easier to hide a chainsaw.

Ps. One of the images shown on the BBC has a pale area close enough to the stump to suggest it comprised of wood chips.... And they were far enough from the stump to suggest to me that it was cut with a chainsaw. Badly, I add. Not cut by someone who has been trained but probably someone who has watched someone else use a chainsaw.

 

[TDub49]

Possibly Plymouth council they like to cut down healthy tres at night like sneaks

. . . or Sheffield.

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[Yorick]

Local suggestion is for a metal tree sculpture and it has some support

I'd give money to a hospital babies ward.
Wouldn't give money for a tree statue

 

[Yorick]

Let's hope they get caught a feel the full force of the law ..hanging would be too good ..

Woah. Hanging for murder maybe.
But not a tree

How about walking on cracks in the pavement? Publicly flogged?


10 years hard labour for late library books?

 

[Stewart J]

The nearest pub had offered this reward prior to the news breaking of an arrest

Pub offers £1,500 bar tab to anyone with information on Sycamore Gap 'felling'

The Twice Brewed Inn is the closest pub to Sycamore Gap and has a beer named after the iconic tree

www.chroniclelive.co.uk

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[TDub49]

Sycamore Gap: Boy, 16, arrested after Hadrian's Wall tree felled

The Sycamore Gap tree was cut down overnight in what police believe was an act of vandalism.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Yorick]

hanging would be too good .

They'd have to find another tree first

 

[Pausim]

Don't use Gormley for a tree, this was his effort of a man in Plymouth!

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He can do realistic if that is what is needed.

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[Gromett]

The original linked article didn't have a picture of it when it was standing so although I was angered by the felling I didn't fully understand the situation. Just seen this picture on the BBC and now fully get it.

Just in case anyone else hasn't seen a picture of it when it was alive in full glory.

 

[Pausim]

The original linked article didn't have a picture of it when it was standing so although I was angered by the felling I didn't fully understand the situation. Just seen this picture on the BBC and now fully get it.

Just in case anyone else hasn't seen a picture of it when it was alive in full glory.


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There was a really nice one taken earlier this month with an aurora lighting up the sky behind the silhouetted tree.

Northern Lights: England's skies glow in aurora spectacle

Photographers share their joy after skies were lit up green, pink and yellow by the aurora borealis.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[David and Sally]

I have never been there but those photos just tell me the scale of this outrage.

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[Stewart J]

From a local photographer

 

[68c]

Very upset by this, been to the wall a few times, never got to the tree.

 

[JJ]

I am really sorry about the tree, I truly am, but I can't help myself thinking of the joke...

"What do monkeys and chainsaws have in common?...



... they both f*ck up trees."


JJ

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[TinaLes]

Sadly having just Googled a map for Sycamore Gap, the result has been shocking to me at least, its already within hours referred to as Sycamore Stump! I guess thats what it will be named as from now.
Saddened by the news today, just when you think you have seen society do its worst deed over the years, something like this comes along.
LES

 

[makems]

What is very odd is it's in the middle of nowhere.

It's about 10 miles to the nearest village, it's a good half mile from the nearest road and a couple of miles from the nearest house..

It's a long way to lug a big chain saw in the middle of the night. Plus fuel, plus lights.

And from what I can see of the cut, it looks like they have just gone straight through, not an angled cut like a tree surgeon would do.

I can only hope they find a body under the felled tree once it's cleared, as, with a cut like that, it would have been very difficult to predict the direction of fall, especially in the dark.

The way it was cut horizontally I am amazed the chain saw didn’t get jammed halfway through!

 

[Stewart J]

The way it was cut horizontally I am amazed the chain saw didn’t get jammed halfway through!

Guessing the gale force winds assisted

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[big bertha]

I've just finished reading Sycamore Gap by LJ Ross DC Ryan crime novels and hadn't heard of the tree before.

 

[BusyBuilder]

Special Branch are doing a root and branch investigation .

 

[Abacist]

Unfortunately nothing outrageous surprises me anymore!

Would that the whole country could get excited about the woeful state of policing, the courts, pathetic sentencing rules etc so that something gets done to invoke a radical improvement.

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