To kill a tree, or three

[sunnydale47]

eudyptes posted a report about a wealthy Vancouver interior designer who poisoned five trees in the park in front of her building because they were blocking her spectacular view of English Bay from her third-floor condo and she wanted to "get rid of them."

The Reuters article didn't say much, and I wanted to find out more about it. When I searched Google

Comments

[conuly]

That fucking BITCH! What sort of... I mean... There's no law for some, y'know.

[sunnydale47]

Well, there's no law for those that have enough money! For the rest of us ... well, if you or I had done that, you know where we'd be languishing.

We actually had a much worse example of the same situation here -- look for a new entry in a few minutes.

[conuly]

No law to protect those without money either - so the only people who have any law at all are the poor suckers in the middle who think it's worth obeying.

[ms_interpret]

It was covered pretty extensively in local news here. It all goes to show that the rich get richer and the poor get prison. It's infuriating.

[sunnydale47]

Well, I would hope so ... it is local news there! It just bugs me that nobody in the entire world gives a damn about this because it happened in Canada. On the other hand, we had situation here that was similar, but actually far worse, and I don't know if it was reported beyond the local area here either. =sigh=

I was starting to write about it here, but it got long and merits its own entry, so watch for it shortly.

[ms_interpret]

Vancouver isn't exactly local, but close enough I suppose. :)

Will watch for it.

[sunnydale47]

It's up now.

Really, Victorians don't consider Vancouver local? The DC and Baltimore media report on each other's news as local news. Not as much as their own, of course but still quite a bit. From my perspective Vancouver is certainly local to you! ;-)