Posted on 12/13/2011 10:50:27 AM PST by SmithL
OAKLAND -- More than a month after taking up a perch in a sycamore at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, tree-sitters came down today, Oakland police said.
At 8 a.m., public works crews started dismantling a structure erected in the tree in early November by Zachary RunningWolf, along with three other wooden platforms.
RunningWolf and a second tree-sitter took up residence in the tree as part of the Occupy Oakland protest and remained there after the Occupy tent city was raided and dismantled by police on Nov. 14.
RunningWolf was not there this morning when police arrived. Two other tree-sitters, who go by SittingFrog and Jenna, voluntarily came down after police told them crews were going to dismantle the structure.
Police said that structure was deemed to be illegal lodging and that human waste had been found under the tree.
RunningWolf organized a 21-month tree-sit in an oak grove near UC Berkeley's football stadium that ended in 2008.
Good 12 gauge will clear the trees pronto.
His cousin Greg Bignuts, twenty-millionth removed, said it is about time he got off of his butt and join society and stop embarrassing everyone...
His cousin Greg Bignuts, twenty-millionth removed, said it is about time he got off of his butt and join society and stop embarrassing everyone...
Getting them out of the trees wasn’t really too hard. With one hand they gave them the finger. With the other hand, they waved.
That should improve the air quality a bit there.
Why doesn’t some enterprising young Conservative find a fast replicating bug that will infest the tree from the bottom up, and absolutely ravage any tree-sitters in short order?
If they pick the right one, it infests, it drives out tree-sitters, and then dissipates and moves on, tree as healthy and free from human fruits and nuts as it can be.
LOL.
Bed-cut, felling cut, gravity does the rest.
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