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Homeowner narrowly saves trees from removal scam (www.wsmv.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/news@lemmy.world
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[–] 61 points 2 years ago (6 children)

This story makes me excited for the day we might someday have a tree-law or perhaps even bird-law sublemmy of our own.

Someday perhaps.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Tree law is a thing, there are big lawsuits in the states over trees.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tree law was one of the few subreddits that I would actually read everytime I saw a post pop up in my feed. Something so satisfying about a good case of tree law.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You know what could speed this up, is if lemmings were willing to go do some tree crime.

    Then we could speed run getting the tree-law sublemmy. In fact I know a good starting template for tree crime..

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    In this case, if the perp playing this game is caught, he can be sued for the cost of not only the wood of the tree, but the cost to replace it with the biggest tree possible (including grinding out the old stump, the equipment needed to dig the new hole for the new tree’s rootball, and transportation and planting of the tree itself). To get a large tree costs $1-2,000, never mind the outsized equipment necessary to move and plant it. So this can get quite expensive quite quickly.

    Source: used to work in the industry, and had a friend who was a consultant on several cases like this, albeit it was generally malicious neighbors going after trees that weren’t on their property, because they ‘hated the leaves in the fall’ or ‘the tree was blocking their view’.

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