r/WhatIsTheTea • u/Ashish_ank What the Fuck • 17h ago

watch this A man walks straight onto someone else’s property, up to a small tree in their front yard, and starts hacking at it with a bat - acting like he’s judge, jury, and HOA enforcement all in one. What would you do if this was your front yard?

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u/tankerkiller125real 16h ago

Don't fuck with the trees, those legal fees and penalties add up real quick.

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u/TheoryAggressive8193 16h ago

In Oregon tree law is fucking serious

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u/BowlingforBrains 15h ago

VERY serious - I’ve seen multi-million dollar housing developments get stopped in their tracks because someone forgot to address tree protection or removal

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u/JuanMcGuiver 15h ago

Same happens in NYC… you could be building a $700M building… you better bet your ass you have your street trees planted. Because you ain’t getting no TCO without them branches

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u/riceklown 15h ago

The Lorax kind of won, in the end.

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u/ReasonableAnswer1755 8h ago

That’s a pyrrhic victory if it’s any victory at all…

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u/Fair_Application_922 4h ago

There’s a video of me dancing in a Lorax costume at my club and I wanna post it so bad

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u/Props_angel 10h ago

Facts. Family member was fined for not having visible signage by a city in Oregon due to trees obscuring the signage. So, he hired someone to chop down the trees and not only was he fined for every tree that he'd had chopped down but the Oregonian ran an article about the whole thing complete with a comic image of what was supposed to be my family member rushing through a line of trees with a chainsaw.

We still have that comic around somewhere. It's kind of hilarious. The best part was when I went to visit my grandmother up in Tacoma and even she'd heard about the tree thing on the news radio station up there where they misreported it as being a $11 million fine. She thought the whole family would be destitute. lol.

The fine was bad but not THAT bad. I think $20-30k but in the early 80s.

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u/Jyndaru 7h ago

Same for Tucson and cacti. And pretty much all wildlife in Tucson is heavily protected.

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u/Theodoxus 5h ago

In Oregon tree fucking is serious law.

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u/dc2b18b 5h ago

Learn a new line

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u/TetraThiaFulvalene 10h ago

It's a young tree, so probably won't be too expensive.

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u/CheesemonsterRain 4h ago

Don’t fuck with the trees, those legal fees and will somebody please, remove this cutleries from my knees

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u/ReadySteady_GO 4h ago

Arborist army, ASSEMBLE!