Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Local Trivia: Tree butchery

I just watched a perfectly good, cute, decorative tree get chainsawed down by a two-man crew with a wood chopper.

I thought they were just pruning it to begin with, though I thought "that's a stupid way to prune a tree," which I know thanks to my grandma's penchant for gardening and farm-work. Then they continued past the point of pruning, and I realized what they were really doing.

It felt a bit like what I imagine watching an amputation would feel like -- though with the addition that the amputation would continue, shockingly, to every limb, and then end with decapitation.

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