Toomer's Corner Poisoned

#201
#201
bamacheats said:
I'll pay his way if I get to help cut them suckers down. Can you imagine the size of bonfire I can have with 130 year old trees? It might be so big it could dry your sissyass tears.
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And didn't you tell someone to get out of hick town earlier?
 
#202
#202
bamacheats said:
That's a good analogy, and we'd be super pissed! Especially since rocks are older than trees by a few billion years. However, I have a hard time believing that Auburn fans would be furious over it if it happened, which is slightly disappointing since we are supposed to be the classier fan base, but we're mad about some trees. Which needs to be mentioned, THE TREES ARE NOT DEAD YET!

Most herbicides available to the public need something green to kill. Those oaks are still dormant. Plus Auburn would make so much money cutting them suckers up they could pay cam newton $180k every game to play for them.
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The guy said he used Spike 80DF which state agricultural laws govern.
 
#205
#205
Hope they catch the guilty party. What a pathetic act by a person. Won't be chanting "roll damn tide" while he is having his meager wages garnished and picking up trash on the side of the freeway.
 
#207
#207
I agree with the people who think this was a pretty horrible thing to do.

Kind of surprising how many people think it's funny.

Destroying peoples stuff isn't cool. Especially if it's personal property or something that's of personal value. He would have been better off spray painting buildings. They have money to fix that. This guy hit them where it hurt. Sounds like there is nothing they can do to fix this. Plus, they said that crap was going to be in the ground for the next three to five years.

Not cool.
 
#209
#209
hope nothing happens to that magnificent sculpture on pedestrian walkway, the tennessee student body would be devastated :whistling:
 
#210
#210
bamacheats said:
It's means you need to get out of Hick county and travel a little bit.

I sat in a 2400 yr old olive tree on a trip to Greece. Americans have no idea what "old" is.
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Then you should have some appreciation of what a old tree can come to mean to people.

When I was a kid, there was a giant old oak tree at the other end of Cades Cove. It stood out all by itself in the field. The view was gorgeous, and the tree was magnificent, and there was a turnout with a little parking lot, and since it was almost exactly halfway round the natural thing to do was to stop there and have a picnic lunch next to it. Kids would run in the field and people would throw a football or frisbee. Unfortunately it got struck by lightning 20 years ago or so and now all that's there is an empty spot.

A couple of years ago, I was at an art festival here in Atlanta. Walked by some guy's nature photographs, and had to do a u-turn and go back, because right there out front was a big beautiful picture of that tree. I talked to the photographer a little bit and he said that yes, it was the same tree, and at least one or two people from Tennessee come up and ask about it at every single show he does, and that's why he sticks it out front: he sells as many pictures of a 20-year-dead tree to East Tennesseeans as he does anything else in his portfolio. And East Tennessee is not exactly a region known for its tree huggers.

Take that kind of response to a tree and multiply it by the nostalgia of your college years and it's easy to see why Auburn people are devastated by this. To kill these trees over a stupid jersey on Bear Bryant's statue is despicable.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Then you should have some appreciation of what a old tree can come to mean to people.

When I was a kid, there was a giant old oak tree at the other end of Cades Cove. It stood out all by itself in the field. The view was gorgeous, and the tree was magnificent, and there was a turnout with a little parking lot, and since it was almost exactly halfway round the natural thing to do was to stop there and have a picnic lunch next to it. Kids would run in the field and people would throw a football or frisbee. Unfortunately it got struck by lightning 20 years ago or so and now all that's there is an empty spot.

A couple of years ago, I was at an art festival here in Atlanta. Walked by some guy's nature photographs, and had to do a u-turn and go back, because right there out front was a big beautiful picture of that tree. I talked to the photographer a little bit and he said that yes, it was the same tree, and at least one or two people from Tennessee come up and ask about it at every single show he does, and that's why he sticks it out front: he sells as many pictures of a 20-year-dead tree to East Tennesseeans as he does anything else in his portfolio. And East Tennessee is not exactly a region known for its tree huggers.

Take that kind of response to a tree and multiply it by the nostalgia of your college years and it's easy to see why Auburn people are devastated by this. To kill these trees over a stupid jersey on Bear Bryant's statue is despicable.
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Spot on :good!:
 
#212
#212
Hate both teams but didn't the barners roll toomer's corner when the bear died? haha so maybe just long waited revenge. Again hate both teams
 
#213
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bamacheats said:
It's means you need to get out of Hick county and travel a little bit.

I sat in a 2400 yr old olive tree on a trip to Greece. Americans have no idea what "old" is.
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The sequoia tree in California named "General Sherman" is from 2,300-2,700-years-old.

Anyway, 130 years in Europe is the same as 130 years in America. Kind of like the old trick question: "What weighs more, 100 pounds of bricks or 100 pounds of feathers?"
 
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Vol_4_Life said:
The sequoia tree in California named "General Sherman" is from 2,300-2,700-years-old.
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The bristlecone pines in California are over 4000 years old. The oldest one is over 4800 years old, but they won't tell anyone exactly where it is because of jackholes like this guy in Alabama. Guy would probably think it's funny to kill a tree that's been growing since before the Great Pyramid was built.

(Which, by the way, is a great little daytrip if you ever happen to be on that side of the Sierra Nevada mountains. We were over there doing some backpacking in conjunction with the Cal game a few years ago. Taking a morning to drive over and see the bristlecones is highly recommended.)
 
#216
#216
Sht's only just beginning. Bama's got 24/7 surveillance on all their traditions right now. What's scary is that there won't just be one retaliation. Jimmy Ray from Bumfck AL will take matters into his own hands, while Bobby from Billfck AL will do something else because there won't be communication and planning. It's gonna be a shtstorm in Tuscaloosa and they won't be ready.
 
#217
#217
TTownVOL90 said:
I will attempt to sum this thread up.
1) Toomers Corner was poisoned. It is a tradition to roll the trees after a win and the trees are as symbolic to Auburn as the Hill is to Tennessee
2) Bama fans are pathetic in every aspect. They see this coward as a hero.
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Freakin' Alabama morons.
 
#219
#219
I'm really stunned that people find such a hateful act funny in anyway.

Vercing summed it up well. Tradition or not, these are beautiful living things that have deep meaning for many people. To think some dumb ass destroyed them because the team he roots for lost is simply staggering to me. This kind of thing makes me hate living in this state - people take football so serious that it has made me take it less serious. It's a damn game.

The 130 years isn't really that old because I sat in a 2400 year old tree is probably the dumbest thing I've ever seen on this board. Hell Auburn was basically founded officially in 1872. These trees are almost the same age as the university.
 
#220
#220
volinbham said:
I'm really stunned that people find such a hateful act funny in anyway.

Vercing summed it up well. Tradition or not, these are beautiful living things that have deep meaning for many people. To think some dumb ass destroyed them because the team he roots for lost is simply staggering to me. This kind of thing makes me hate living in this state - people take football so serious that it has made me take it less serious. It's a damn game.

The 130 years isn't really that old because I sat in a 2400 year old tree is probably the dumbest thing I've ever seen on this board. Hell Auburn was basically founded officially in 1872. These trees are almost the same age as the university.
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I can agree with this. When I got to UT, I was rabid. I reacted irrationally to losses and it was pretty pathetic. Then I started to see the way I acted in other people, and I realized how sad it was. Maturation at it's finest?
 
#221
#221
crusse10 said:
I can agree with this. When I got to UT, I was rabid. I reacted irrationally to losses and it was pretty pathetic. Then I started to see the way I acted in other people, and I realized how sad it was. Maturation at it's finest?
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Indeed. My anger and frustration is much less pronounced and much shorter in duration than in the past.

At the end of the day, they're games.
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#222
#222
volinbham said:
I'm really stunned that people find such a hateful act funny in anyway.

Vercing summed it up well. Tradition or not, these are beautiful living things that have deep meaning for many people. To think some dumb ass destroyed them because the team he roots for lost is simply staggering to me. This kind of thing makes me hate living in this state - people take football so serious that it has made me take it less serious. It's a damn game.

The 130 years isn't really that old because I sat in a 2400 year old tree is probably the dumbest thing I've ever seen on this board. Hell Auburn was basically founded officially in 1872. These trees are almost the same age as the university.
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That's because you are a stupid American who doesn't know what old really is.
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#224
#224
Insert generic "that poor tree, who would do such a thing" quote here. All this hubbub about a tree, imagine if they killed a tiger. I'm assuming Auburn has a liver tiger somewhere, but they may have spent all their money on recruiting and not be able to buy one.
 
#225
#225
Supravol22 said:
I would pay someone to kill that damn thing :machgun:
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Why is Peyton getting mauled by bears in your pic?

Also, I don't care if you sat in a 2400 year old tree or sat on the queen's lap wearing nothing but a bow tie. Both stories are irrelevant, but the better question is, why would you sit in a tree in Greece?
 
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