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>> One property owner with a scoped rifle should end this guys career as a trespassor and thief.

Maybe. This guy is a friend of mine, who I've known for something like 27 years. A few years back, he tree sat at another location in town and experienced some difficulty with gravity. Got busted up pretty good.

Must be some kind of obsession with him. About three years ago he tree sat at this same location where he is now (maybe the same tree, I dunno). He has tree sat in an aging cherry tree in one of the city parks. He tree sat among trees slated for removal in a fairly large scale street improvement project along the river that runs through town.

He also gets involved in a local activity called "critical mass", where large numbers of bicyclists gather and clog a busy thoroughfare during rush hour, generally inconveniencing the taxpayers who fund the bikeways he likes to travel.

But other than his two obsessions, trees and bicycles, he's a pretty good guy, and you'll find him on our side of almosy any other issue. If I recall, it was he who, during the 1991 gulf war, scaled the tallest tree he could find in the Alton Baker Park, and lashed atop same tree one tall flagpole and a large American Flag.

Don't see him a lot lately, but we catch up by email and I see him on this forum from time to time. His Ferret screen name (and a few other subsequent ones) has been banned, but he does get on from time to time under an yet to be banned name.

Dave in Eugene

Apart from occasional trespassing and selfishly and self-centeredly obstructing public thoroughfares so that ambulances and taxpayers can't get through, he's an okay fellow, eh? He sounds like a bully who uses bully tactics to get his fringe way. As a child was his toilet training especially traumatic?