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.
“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.”
Looks like that NUT didn’t fall too far from the tree now, did he? ;)
Ba-Dump-Dump! Thank you! I’ll be here all week. Try the Buffet! :)
ROFLMAO! :)
He doesn't deserve pity or lamenting. He needs applause for being a fine interpretative actor(I think that's what they call it).
clap, clap, clap....
Too bad he didn’t break his neck!
doncha mean "tree" falling
I wonder how many carbon credits this guy is going to have to buy to offset the carbon based transport to the hospital.
Good point.
We should send him a bill.
“This guy would not have fallen out of the tree if the University would have cut down the tree with these fools in it.”
And put all the fallen debris in the shreader including the 2 legged ones!
Maybe write him a ticket for unlicensed conversion of potential energy into kinetic energy. :)
LOL
I always wondered about that as well.Don’t these long term protestors have to pay any BILLS?Do they have classes at school or report to a job?
And I say that not because they are Leftist environmentalists.I would question them if they were Right wing demonstrators too.
I work TWO jobs.And barely have time for Free Republic!Not to mention tree sitting.
And if he hadn't been sitting in a tree this wouldn't have happened.
Where he was treated for his self-inflicted wounds at tax payer expense.
I once broke my leg below the ankle.
Gravity can be a real pain sometimes. If he had spent less time protesting and more time studying Newton’s law this woundn’t happened.
Doesn’t this idiot have a sister that also fell out of a tree a while back? Blueberry Hill or something like that?
Oak
I CAN'T..BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHa
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