Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, were charged with causing criminal damage and damaging the wall built in A.D. 122 by Emperor Hadrian to guard the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire.
They were ordered to appear in Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on May 15.
The sycamore’s majestic canopy between two hills made it a popular subject for landscape photographers. It became a destination after being featured in Kevin Costner’s 1991 film “Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.”
Tree was 150 years old.
Sentence them to the same amount of time.
Not for prison, though. For community service rebuilding historic sites.
Good idea
Hear hear, who’d want to pay for all their meals as they generate nothing besides prison profits.
Prisons should not be for profit institutes.
They shouldn’t, but that doesn’t change reality.
That’d be reasonable, I guess. Probably just on weekends, but for the rest of their working lives.
Even better, give the tree a citizenship, then try them for (attempted?) murder. Battery at the minimum.
Wow, look at those upvotes. It’s a tree, even if a very special one; this is pure rage jerk.
Nothing more British than zealously and dogmatically defending a 150 year old celebrity.
Why are you booing us, we’re right!
Although, my own comment has nearly broken even as of writing, which really surprises me. I’m proud of you, Lemmy. On Reddit I’m sure I’d be on the downvote elevator to hell.
These dudes should be punished as the worst kind of vandals, but 150 years is what you give someone when you wish you could execute them. It’s a tree. Another will grow, and it would have blown over eventually anyway; don’t escalate to bloodshed or bloodshed substitutes.
Are you stupid
I’m not defending these guys, but holy shit. Y’all in here are fucking bloodthirsty. One of you is literally tossing out due process like all we need is an accusation.
I just recently watched Star Trek TNG S04E21 The Drumhead. A reminder how important due process is and how easy it can derail.
Damn if I don’t have to give bonus points for you wrapping it up in Star Wars to make like 85% of the fediverse pay attention and get it
Star Wars
Hmmm… Intentional trolling or not… Can’t decide…
lol. Accident but I’m leaving it
I gain nothing from making people pay attention, but am just a fan of most Star Trek myself, so part of your “85%”. I mean why else would I rewatch TNG again 😅 (I want to watch it in chronological order mixed with DS9 this time. (not accounting for time travel))
It’s Lemmy, folks here are ready to join a violent uprising at any moment if the banner is right
folks here are ready to join a violent uprising at any moment if the banner is right
They are right up until it’s their time to bleed.
Have you met Lemmy? There’s a reason it will never truly take off no matter how shitty Reddit gets; it’s the people.
Yeah fuck that guy.
Is there any more info on how the hell they found them? I thought back then they had basically no idea who the perpetrators were.
Someone snitching out here yo!
Yeah. One of them talked too much.
Stupid assholes doing stupid asshole shit. I’m not as bloodthirsty as most here, but I do hope they really fucking hate their punishment. I hope it bothers them far more than any fun they had being dumb assholes. That’ll be enough for me.
I thought they initially arrested a 16 year old kid for this? So he was innocent?
Every 16 year old boy is guilty of something. You just haven’t figure out what yet.
Not sure if you’re joking or serious
I’m all for rehabilitation of criminals. But they also somehow have to repay what they took. Somehow they have to give 150 years back.
Will 150 saplings that are all 1 year old work?
150 duck-sized sycamore trees or 1 sycamore-tree-sized duck?
150 days planting saplings for 8 hours sounds better to me.
I’m curious what their motive was, exactly.
Probably pissed up pair of cunts doing it for a ‘laugh’
Maybe, but I can’t imagine a level of intoxication where I’d suddenly feel like destroying precious landmarks.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
LONDON (AP) — Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, were charged with causing criminal damage and damaging the wall built in A.D. 122 by Emperor Hadrian to guard the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire.
They were ordered to appear in Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on May 15.
The sycamore’s majestic canopy between two hills made it a popular subject for landscape photographers.
It became a destination after being featured in Kevin Costner’s 1991 film “Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.”
The nighttime felling last fall caused outrage as police tried to figure out what inspired such an act of vandalism.
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Wow. Really saved me some time there!
charge each of them with 150 years of prison.
Let them never walk free again
A penny a step is reasonable, I think.
Yeah, break their fucking knees!
Okay so let’s skip the whole court, and trial, and prison thing. No need to go through that. Everyone who wants to gets to punch these fuckers in the head. Done.
What a dumb comment. Yes, let’s just throw out the due process.
Comments on lemmy.world seem to have sunk below the Reddit standard these days.
Alright, alright. We’ll have a trial.
But then the head punching.
Lol
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That is not what anarchy is about.
Anarchy is when chop wood.
Not from the King’s Forest
Feudalism worked for thousands of years, why did we have to throw it out? /s
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OMG what a dumb comment this is.
The tree was not complicit in that
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Go away katy
Or what Germany did in the battle of the Somme, or what Israel has done in Gaza.
Not sure why you ran with whataboutism.
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That’s not how this works. There’s no point in talking if everyone just makes unrelated statements.
But have you considered the heat death of the universe?
Purple monkey dishwasher
