University forcibly extracting tree sitters

KGO-TV in San Francisco (ABC news) ^ | 9/9/2008 | Teresa Garcia

[Macaw]

BERKELEY, CA (KGO) -- The final showdown is unfolding at UC Berkeley. As campus police move in on the tree sitters occupying the last of the remaining trees. There have been many violent confrontations between police and protestors.

Objects thrown, weapons drawn, people arrested - it's all going down right now at UC Berkeley. Campus police in a cherry-picker are actively trying to get the tree sitters down from their perch in a redwood tree. A dramatic ending to the nearly two-year protest over the removal of trees to build a new university sports complex.

[Macaw]

You can watch the extraction live here:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/feature?section=news&id=6372996

[library user]

Watching the live stream right now.

Did you hear that guy yell “Get a f****’n job you damn dirty zeroBama loving hippies!”

LOL.

[Macaw]

If the video is busy, basically they have scaffolding up and a crane with a platform hovering overhead.

[JRandomFreeper]

When they get infected, you have to extract them.

/johnny

[Macaw]

Are you getting audio? I’m just getting a tone.

[Constitution Day]

YES!
Spray them down with some industrial-grade disinfectant while you’re at it.

Damn stinkin’ hippies.

[A Strict Constructionist]

The cops should head on over to fruit grove and borrow a tree shaker. A few nets might be nice to prevent lawsuits.

[Sybeck1]

Wonder if they had planned on voting absentee?

[the OlLine Rebel]

Does anyone find it a bit ironic that Berkeley has to face down the very kind of people it encourages and develops?

[Slings and Arrows]

Eric Cartman is on the job.

[Sax]

I'd suggest softening them up first with a few volleys of pepper-spray paintballs.

[GQuagmire]

Tree cutters in white suits(Haz mat suits?)

[Macaw]

I'm afraid they might enjoy that shaking a bit too much.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yes, because “droppings” were sometimes raining down on them.

[auzerais]

I still say the University should have sprayed these tree sitters with a solution mixed with skunk oil from day one. Each day they could increase the percentage mixture until these pathetic losers come down on their own.

[muglywump]

I don’t get it. The video just shows workers harvesting nuts. (sarc)

[Izzy Dunne]

Why bother extracting them from the trees?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Same here. Only audio is a very annoying tone! Anybody got a better link? I’m on a Mac.

[Past Your Eyes]

ROFLMAO! I love it! I saw some of the freakazoids on TV.

[library user]

Those are college kids? They look like they’re in their 30s.