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[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You really love to see yet another unsuspecting victim accidentally invoke the wrath of tree law. Really makes that old episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force (S1E2) hit different. Ain't no joke!

[–] termus@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago
[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

If there's one thing I've learned from reddit; it's that tree law is the only thing the us legal system takes seriously

[–] lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's such a petty law but give the reason why they trimmed the trees you love to see the city drop the hammer on on universal

[–] daniel@notdigg.com 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tree law isn’t petty. It’s necessary because replacing trees of a similar age is EXPENSIVE. The fines and damages that can add up reflect that.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For real. These trees represent decades of investment by the city to provide essential services (shade, clean air, etc.) that has now been permanently damaged by these fuckheads. And their “justification” is the most dishonest and despicable part. As an arborist I can tell you that no reputable arborist would trim these trees this way. Ignoring the legality, trimming them this way makes them more dangerous, not less, and any arborist should know that. Shame on them.

[–] VoxAdActa@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know much about ficus, but I know if someone did this to a silver maple or a ginkgo, it'd be a death sentence for that tree. There's almost no foliage left to even photosynthesize with, and the surface area of the cut ends is massive; it'll take months to seal up those wounds, during that whole time, the tree is losing water. If it managed to survive just the environmental issues (water, heat, light, etc), it'll be extremely vulnerable to diseases and pests. Unless ficus are the tarragon of the tree world, they look to me like they're doomed. Universal should have just cut them down, for all that.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

Ficus is very tough so I do expect they will survive but they will be permanently deformed and more likely to drop branches in the future due to poor structure and injuries that may decay before healing properly.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Tree laws are awesome and the coolest lawyers all love tree law

[–] LucyLastic@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife is a (seasonal) arborist, when I saw the news yesterday I decided not to show it to her because she already struggles with how people treat trees and this would just leave her angry.

Even I, a layperson, saw the job that was done and thought to myself "holy shot they mutilated those trees".

:-(

[–] Wenchette@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

They completely butchered them. That's not how trees are supposed to be trimmed

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They'll just get fined, and it'll be a small fraction of their daily revenue.

[–] Idrunkenlysignedup@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I posted this elsewhere, but according to a quick Google it's up to $18k per tree and from the images I found, it's 5 trees. $90k is couch cushion money to Universal. They DGAF about fines.

[–] GiantBasil@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Terrible news for the trees, great news for us.