Comment on Boy, 16, arrested over felling of iconic ‘Robin Hood tree’ next to Hadrian’s Wall

CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My Dad’s favourite quote from his years of teaching was something a parent said about their teenage son “at that age, they’re all balls and no brains”.

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  • agent_flounder@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Idk. How many teen boys has that tree survived until now? Maybe the kid has other issues going on, shitty parents, or who knows what.

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  • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah that’s pretty true

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• bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If it’s a climate protest, I approve.

  It’s a sycamore, they can be coppiced tf.

  It’s got the media’s attention.

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why would you cut a tree down in a climate protest?

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    • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because that’s how nowadays climate protesting works, they are just and only destructive and don’t understand that this is doing absolutely nothing for their goal.

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      • Tammo-Korsai@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think many of them know that and are just career hooligans.

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    • bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We’re destroying the environment, what’s the difference? This has got more attention than throwing paint about and stopping workers from getting to work.

      Plus, the tree will be fine.

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  • Hogger85b@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I actually wondered if it was the landowner fed up with the tiktok selfie set tramping the land, I bet the thousands of tourists feet have scared the land, doing more damage.

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