Arborcide! Not content with the steady stream of stabbing and shooting opportunities the city provides so many of its common criminals, someone has taken to destroying 17 trees in Inwood Hill Park with a machete and possibly an ax as well. Parks Department Commissioner Adrian Benepe said: “A methodical serial attack just to kill trees. It’s sad.” While cedars were the primary target of previous attacks in 2006 and 2008, the current crop of victims are tulip trees, pines, sugar maples and hackberries. Local residents were organizing a volunteer patrol and there is a $2,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, which could land someone in jail for up to a year with a $15,000 fine. Benepe told the Times that the tulip trees were just planted in the last 10 years near a spot once occupied by a a 280-year old tulip tree that died in 1938.





Hopefully a tree will fall on this individual and crush him just enough that he suffers for about an hour before he gasps his last breath.
Oh, I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok...
Seriously, whoever did this is a vindictive little asshole of the lowest order. Drowning in a vat of maple syrup might be suitable punishment.
Who'd want to join a volunteer patrol on the lookout for a gang of machete/ax wielding tree choppers?
count me in...
Trinitarios?
Long after that machete wielding animal goes paws up, a healthy tree will be soaking up the mineral nutrients from his cremains.