2 men are charged with cutting down famous 150-year-old tree near Hadrian's Wall in England
2 men are charged with cutting down famous 150-year-old tree near Hadrian's Wall in England
Prosecutors in England say two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall.
Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, were charged with causing criminal damage and damaging the wall built in A.D. 122 by Emperor Hadrian to guard the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire.
They were ordered to appear in Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on May 15.
The sycamore’s majestic canopy between two hills made it a popular subject for landscape photographers. It became a destination after being featured in Kevin Costner’s 1991 film “Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.”
Tree was 150 years old.
Sentence them to the same amount of time.
Even better, give the tree a citizenship, then try them for (attempted?) murder. Battery at the minimum.
Are you stupid
Good. I'm glad to hear it. I can't imagine what excuse they're planning on giving, but it won't be a good one.
I find this just so completely impossible to understand. At least with crimes like murder or burglary, I can understand where the motivation came from, but this? What could they possibly gain by doing this, other than the thrill of destroying something beautiful, or the knowledge that they're making other people sad? How is that at all fulfilling?
I honestly feel that people who get their kicks from this sort of thing just have no place in modern society.
Some people just love being destructive. Like these assholes who were filmed a couple of weeks ago and who I don't think have been caught yet.
I don't understand it either, but there doesn't seem to be any more to it than 'we wanted to destroy it.'
Bet it's going to be: "We were making a Tic-Tok video...."
As far as I'm concerned, it can be "we noticed the tree was destroying the wall and we cut it down before it did any more damage." It was a unilateral decision on their part and done clandestinely. There's just no good excuse they can give.
If it was teenagers, this would be what I'd expect. That would at least be an explanation (a shitty one, but teenagers have stupid brains).
Far more likely in this case that those men did it simply out of spite.
I'm not defending these guys, but holy shit. Y'all in here are fucking bloodthirsty. One of you is literally tossing out due process like all we need is an accusation.
It's Lemmy, folks here are ready to join a violent uprising at any moment if the banner is right
folks here are ready to join a violent uprising at any moment if the banner is right
They are right up until it's their time to bleed.
Have you met Lemmy? There’s a reason it will never truly take off no matter how shitty Reddit gets; it’s the people.
Yeah fuck that guy.
Is there any more info on how the hell they found them? I thought back then they had basically no idea who the perpetrators were.
Someone snitching out here yo!
Yeah. One of them talked too much.
Stupid assholes doing stupid asshole shit. I'm not as bloodthirsty as most here, but I do hope they really fucking hate their punishment. I hope it bothers them far more than any fun they had being dumb assholes. That'll be enough for me.
I'm all for rehabilitation of criminals. But they also somehow have to repay what they took. Somehow they have to give 150 years back.
Will 150 saplings that are all 1 year old work?
150 duck-sized sycamore trees or 1 sycamore-tree-sized duck?
I think community service planting trees is the best possible sentence for the people that did this.
150 days planting saplings for 8 hours sounds better to me.
I thought they initially arrested a 16 year old kid for this? So he was innocent?
Every 16 year old boy is guilty of something. You just haven't figure out what yet.
Not sure if you're joking or serious
I'm curious what their motive was, exactly.
Probably pissed up pair of cunts doing it for a 'laugh'
Maybe, but I can't imagine a level of intoxication where I'd suddenly feel like destroying precious landmarks.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
LONDON (AP) — Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, were charged with causing criminal damage and damaging the wall built in A.D. 122 by Emperor Hadrian to guard the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire.
They were ordered to appear in Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on May 15.
The sycamore’s majestic canopy between two hills made it a popular subject for landscape photographers.
It became a destination after being featured in Kevin Costner’s 1991 film “Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.”
The nighttime felling last fall caused outrage as police tried to figure out what inspired such an act of vandalism.
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Wow. Really saved me some time there!
charge each of them with 150 years of prison.
Let them never walk free again
A penny a step is reasonable, I think.
Yeah, break their fucking knees!
Okay so let’s skip the whole court, and trial, and prison thing. No need to go through that. Everyone who wants to gets to punch these fuckers in the head. Done.
seems like a drop in the bucket to what the british empire did for 400 years.
OMG what a dumb comment this is.