Man trying to shoot off tree limb arrested

New Haven Register ^ | Tuesday, July 7, 2009 | By Register Staff

[Wardenclyffe]

NORTH HAVEN — A man who allegedly used a shotgun to try to get rid of a tree limb in his backyard has been arrested.

Antonio Chiaia, 74, of 9 Cricket Court, was arrested at his home Saturday morning after a neighbor reported he was discharging a shotgun in his yard, Capt. James Merrithew said.

Chiaia told police he could not reach the tree limb with a saw...

[Wardenclyffe]

[gimme1ibertee]

LOLOL!!!! Hold muh beer bump!

[from occupied ga]

Well who hasn’t tried to shoot a limb off a tree with a shotgun when you can’t reach it with a saw?

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

shotguns are also useful for disconnecting downed power lines......

[green pastures]

I know of someone doing insect research who had a sharpshooter along to shoot off small branches from trees for samples. It was safer than having someone climb multiple trees to saw the branches off, and generally more efficient.

[dblshot]

That’s not an uncommon way of harvesting mistletoe.

[TruthBeforeAll]

Actually, the forestry department used to do this. Though it wasn’t in a residential neighborhood.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I used to harvest my Christmas trees this way. Slugs worked best.

[from occupied ga]

I’ve done it, though it was not in a suburban neighborhood.

[stuartcr]

I bet it was fun too.

[ETL]

Perhaps he ran out of dynamite?

[r9etb]

Many years ago my dad had a friend of the family shoot down a large, dangerous, dangling limb that was unclimbably high in a large pine tree. He got it in one shot.

However, our yard backed onto about a million acres of largely uninhabited national forest.

Unlike this yutz, whose neighbors were probably more in danger than the branch was....

[Tijeras_Slim]

You got that right.

[humblegunner]

I had to run some coaxial cable through an exterior wall last week.

Hardware store wanted twelve bucks for a ten inch drill bit.

Hell with that, 7.62 x 39 worked just fine.

[KoRn]

It’s be to cut trees using a Minigun. It would probably take hours using a shotgun...

[Responsibility2nd]

On behalf of redneck Southern males, let me say....

[Wardenclyffe]

I knew a guy who harvested basil from his window box this way also. Unfortunately, his spaghetti sauce was a little gritty.

[Tijeras_Slim]

As long as it’s done from the inside out.

[struwwelpeter]

When I have that problem, I use a ladder.

Once I had a real high one that was rubbing on the house. I climbed as high as I could, tossed a pipe wrench with a rope attached over it so that it wrapped around a time or two, then tied the rope to the trailer hitch and pulled the branch off.

Not exactly tree surgery, but better than wasting ammo.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I used to harvest my Christmas trees this way."

They make good eatin' if you clean 'em right away!