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Whoa, who knew that people would take their anger out on poor plants and trees in the park? The Post reports that David Sasson was arrested for "committing horticultural homicide" at Union Square Park. Sasson, who lives on East 14th Street, has apparently been damaging hydrangea bushes, dogwood trees, holly bushes, roses, butterfly bushes, a magnolia and other flora over the past three weeks. Two Parks Enforcement officers caught him at 1:30AM, and the Parks Department said Sasson "was in the process of ripping branches off trees," adding that Sasson just "reached up into the tree branches and pulled off the limbs." And the "destruction or abuse for trees" is serious - that, coupled with his second-degree criminal mischief charges, could add up to seven years in jail.
Gothamist recommends you check out New Yorkers For Parks, a parks advocacy group in the city. You can sign up for their Parks Advocacy Day in May and we love the Daffodil Project, where thousands of flowers are planted each year.
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Jeez, it took the cops three weeks to catch this guy? Too bad he wasn't riding a bicycle. The cops would have been out in force, hunting him down with their SUVs etc.
"horticultural homicide?" I pray the post made that up. Homo = same, cide = kill. Applies only to humans. The cops wouldn't actually arrest someone for a made-up charge, would they?
Oh, wait. See Critical Mass story above.
Well, it's better than getting arrested for peeing on the plants.
(Although, if this guy has to go to prison, he is so f***ed, "Oz"-style. Imagine when the other inmates ask him what he's in for?)
Homo = human, more than homo = same, however both derivations justify the meaning of the word.
What wouldn't the cops do if they could get away with it?
I've always hated grafitti vandals but this jerk is in a league by himself. He should have been caught by a gardener and beaten with a tree limb. That would have been poetic justice.
The best example of arborcide justice ocurred in Arizona when a drunk was shotgunning ancient saguaro cacti. One of them toppled over and killed the bastard.
I happened to be in Union Square this afternoon and saw the damaged plants (photos here and here. The damage is worse than my pictures show. There are worse crimes but this is absolutely senseless.
I took a couple of pictures of the plants (here and here. The damage is worse than my photos show. There are worse crimes for sure, but this is completely senseless.