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Albemarle Road church fined $100 per branch for excessive tree pruning
charlotteobserver ^ | May. 28, 2011 | Brittany Penland

Posted on 05/28/2011 11:29:56 AM PDT by barmag25

Every two to three years, Eddie Sales trims and prunes the crape myrtles at his church, Albemarle Road Presbyterian Church.

But this year, the city of Charlotte cited the church for improperly pruning its trees.

"We always keep our trees trimmed back because you don't want to worry about them hanging down in the way," said Sales, a church member.

The church was fined $100 per branch cut for excessive pruning, bringing the violation to $4,000.

"I just couldn't believe it when I heard about it," Sales said. "We trim our trees back every three years all over our property, and this is the first time we have been fined."

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/05/28/2333197/church-fined-for-improper-tree.html#ixzz1Nfkq048B

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TOPICS: Government; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: charlotte; church; civilwarsoon; fines; marxism; nannystate; outofcontrol; treenazis; trees; treetrimming; yardnazis
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To: omega4412
The church was fined $100 per branch cut...

Some mathematicians could be in deep trouble.

LOL. Long time since I heard that term.

21 posted on 05/28/2011 12:05:16 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: barmag25

I thought there was no such thing as over-pruning a crape myrtle! Haven’t they ever heard of crape murder? I’ve seen them pruned back so far it looked like there was no possible way they would survive, but come summer, they were blooming in all their glory.


22 posted on 05/28/2011 12:12:34 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: Not gonna take it anymore
It looks like they trimmed those trees within an inch of their lives.
I used to drive past a house where they did the same thing. They basically cut all the way to the trunk and then these itty bitty branches grow. This is mutilation and wasteful. This last year the trees finally gave up and died.
Get an arborist to trim your trees.

Imagine the pain those trees felt. We should appoint a court guardian and psychologist for them.

"Get an arborist to trim your trees..." that's on my next to do list, right after getting a nanny to tie my shoes. Memo to you: They're trees. Just trees. If you cut them too much one year, you let them grow the next. In the unlikely event that they die, use them for heat and plant new ones.

23 posted on 05/28/2011 12:12:34 PM PDT by mewykwistmas (Lost your job as a birther under Obama? Become a 'deather'! Where's Bin Laden's death certificate?)
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To: Not gonna take it anymore
There is someone in town, big fancy house, who subjects his trees to that fancy European pruning system known as pollarding, which is abhorrent to the finely tuned naturalistic soul of one such as myself.

Nonetheless, covet not thine neighbor's ox, nor ass, nor trees. They're his dang ugly trees.

24 posted on 05/28/2011 12:14:16 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: Not gonna take it anymore

Pay for it...they are my trees, YES?

Branches grow back, politicians lose jobs for stunts like this rightfully so.


25 posted on 05/28/2011 12:14:33 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: Concho

Or a couple teenagers with two cable saws might kill eight or 900 city trees in a single night.

And maybe do it again in September.

Where is that “Respect My Authority” graphic?


26 posted on 05/28/2011 12:14:59 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: heartwood

Half fail on the href, there. Giving self partial credit for working link.


27 posted on 05/28/2011 12:16:33 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: barmag25

Cut them all down.


28 posted on 05/28/2011 12:18:04 PM PDT by muddler (Diligentia, Vis and Celeritas)
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To: Concho
need to converge on the shity council and make an understanding with them.

Send this guy.


29 posted on 05/28/2011 12:19:15 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: barmag25

This and the story about the Missouri couple being fined $90,000 for selling more than $500 a year of rabbits need to go center stage with the Tea Party. Government is out of control. It’s time for revolution. I’m praying it will be peaceful as possible.


30 posted on 05/28/2011 12:22:16 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: barmag25

Were I in charge of landscaping at the church, I’d cut every trimmed tree down to the ground. Then I’d pay the fine for excessive trimming. And there would be no other trees planted on the property until the law is changed.


31 posted on 05/28/2011 12:35:34 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: barmag25

I love it when government steps in to help.

Someone on the local government must be in need of revenue dearly.


32 posted on 05/28/2011 12:41:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: barmag25

While they’re at it they should cut themselves a switch or two and thrash the LS out of certain persons in city govt.


33 posted on 05/28/2011 12:43:39 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (I stand with Israel!)
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To: culpeper

Well, more like selectively applying those laws to target certain groups and peoples to collect revenue.

But in general, yes, they make these laws to make innocent people guilty of something.

We have so many “felonies” now all that is is to take away your 2A rights. Shouting is ‘domestic violence’ and there goes your 2A rights.


34 posted on 05/28/2011 12:44:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: barmag25
Big Brother has us so well trained that no one so much as said "private property" or "property rights". The state determines the best use for the land and the peasants comply. From the sixties culture, "The elderly rich couple lives in a four bedroom house and the poor single mother with five kids lives in a one bedroom apartment. This is the injustice of capitalism." Now the sixties culture is in charge at the federal, state and local levels.

This tree cutting is a symptom of a far more dangerous cancer.

36 posted on 05/28/2011 12:51:15 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: barmag25

Wouldn’t it be funny if the mayor and the city council members had their trees excessively pruned?


37 posted on 05/28/2011 12:56:18 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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Good luck on figuring out where those shells came from. Iran is close to home right right.


38 posted on 05/28/2011 12:57:09 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: AD from SpringBay

You should see what the electric company did to my maple tree. I doubt they will pay $100/branch.
Maybe I have them arrested for assault and battery on my tree.


39 posted on 05/28/2011 12:58:52 PM PDT by donhunt (I am sick and tired of those bastards insulting and lying to me.)
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Don’t even get me started on the tons of maryjane over the fence in central america.


40 posted on 05/28/2011 1:02:02 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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