Posted on 11/12/2007 3:04:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
BERKELEY, Calif. -- On Sunday evening a Memorial Oak Grove tree-sitter fell from the supply-line that is used to ferry food, water and people into and out of the tree-sit protest.
The traverse-line was created after the university erected a fence around the tree-sitters and spans from a tree inside the fenced in area to a tree outside the fence.
Nathaniel Hill, the fallen tree-sitter, was moving on the traverse line to meet his father, Carl Hill, who had come from the east coast to visit his son.
Hill was taken to Highland Hospital where he was treated for a broken arm above the wrist and a broken leg above the ankle.
"If the University had not put up the fence this wouldn't have happened," said Zachary Running Wolf, the organizer of the tree sit-in. "They created this situation where we have to move in and out of the grove on that traverse line."
University spokesman Dan Mogulof says the fall is not the university's fault.
"The accident is very regrettable but to state the obvious, completely avoidable," he said. "Things like this wouldn't happen if people who are illegally occupying university property were obeying the law."
Meanwhile, Judge Barbara Miller is set to render her decision any day on the legality of the university's expansion plans for the area.
The university also recently built a second fence surrounding the grove.
UC Police Chief Victoria Harrison said that the school built the new fence as a security measure prior to the forcible removal of the protesters from the trees.
Wow, Mr. Running wolf is a total parasite. He brags about not working for the last 11 years. 43 years old and completely useless.
Men in Trees
...either that or you lost your sarcasm tag! LOL
Ha! Nature bites him hard on the ass. Gotta love it.
Was the tree hurt?
The old Polish proverb comes to mind....Tough shitski.
Can’t they just give these guys a ten minute warning then go ahead and fire up the chainsaws?
ping
... and the fellow tree sitters still in the trees, all shouted, "Wow, man, like, far out!"
I am pretty sure this is the guy Kirk Herbstreit called out on National Television and asked what he was doing with that toilet paper up in the tree.
Insert favorite FAIL! photo here:
How do you spell S C H A D E N F R E U D E ?
lew, in ks
Nuts fall to the ground from trees all the time. Why is this news?
Dang - I’m fresh out of sympathy....
“Men in Trees”
A man in a bush is much better.
LOL SoA! Thanks for the ping. Was in a funk and this cheered me right up!
LBT
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If I fell out of the tree…would you please not laugh at me
And try to understand
It is creepy way up there…thirty feet up in the air
Will you hold my hand
I can’t hear the birdies sing…3:00 AM’s dark
You can’t see a freaking thing…it’s no walk in the park
So-called friends said watch your grip…I took a breath
I knew if I made one slip…it could mean death
But they…said that we would have a ball…you’ll see
Only idiots could fall…certainly
I remember mom would say…to use my brain
Please be careful how I play…do not do things insane
Now I’m getting scared…and it…ain’t looking good
If my life is spared…this tree…is firewood
Oh, no…I am falling on my rump…or worse
My head might crack on that stump…what a curse
I can’t hear the birdies sing…it’s cold and dark
In fact, I can’t hear a thing…oh, what a stupid lark
What a real boneheaded lark
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