This is sad, hopefully the person/persons that did this get caught and punished. Toomers Oaks Poisoned
I saw that yesterday, hopefully the fact that the idiot called into a sports show and boasted about it, will lead to his capture and punishment. Unfortuneately I'll bet the punishment won't fit the crime.
Your so right. Now in the old west, they'd have a fitting punishment that would have involved the oaks themselves.
In Texas there is an old Oak Tree called "Treaty Oak" it was vandalized in a similar manner. They did catch the guy who did it and he got prison time. Treaty Oak
I see where big Al from Dadeville has been arrested for the crime. He is 62 yrs old and does not sound to be too swift.
the guy who did this called into the Finebaum show after he did it to brag on it. It was the show that prompted the authorities to look into it, which led to the soil testings, which in turn led to all this. Say what you want about that show, but it's the epicenter of SEC college football.
I've listened to it from time to time since it's gone national, and I have to say that clearly the SEC callers are pissed that people from the other regions are calling and talking about football that they don't care about!!
JO'Co, I don't listen to Finebaum but yeah supposedly he said roll damn tide. This guy must be insane. He thought that he would be a hero. He was wrong. The overwhelming response has been disgust and there Alabama fan fund raising effort to pay for the replacement of the trees. Auburn's traditions will survive, they just may have to be altered for a while. Hard to believe.
Yea...I read where this guy named his two sons "Bear" and "Crimson." He'll go down in Southern history with John Wilkes Booth as another fellow who didn't quite understand the culture he thought he was helping... I felt bad for Alabama fans when I first heard this. Having met more than a few of them when I visited Corey, I know that they're nothing like this idiot. His act represents only himself...and maybe Bear and Crimson too. If he was my daddy, I'd wear a bag over me head for sure...
8) JoCo...very good about John Wilkes Booth. I think you know his brother Edwin was an actor. Not sure about John.
:idea: Vic- I teach a little about Edwin Booth in my class. He's a tragic figure in American history. He was a dedicated Republican who voted for Mr. Lincoln twice. Furthermore, he once saved the life of the president's son, Robert Lincoln, when the boy fell in front of a moving train. Many theater historians still regard him as the greatest American actor who ever lived. Many years after the Civil War, when friends visited his deathbed, they noticed something about his bedroom that surprised them. On the wall next to the bed, near his face, was a picture of his brother Johnny. It was the last thing that he saw, every night, for decades... Edwin Booth's room at the Player's Club in New York has been left exactly the way it was on the day he died.
Didn't know any of that, but it made me google it and I found the Players Club website....all very interesting, esp the short bio on Edwin Booth.