Berkeley Tree Sitters Lose the Big One
A couple tree sitters were peacefully removed from their nests after hanging out for 21 months. They were protesting the cutting down of 42 campus trees to make way for a new $124 sports facility, and they successfully blocked the project for almost two years. Twenty-one months is a long damn time. I would have gotten really sick of whoever was in the tree next to me
I didn’t even know that Berkeley had sports teams. The tree sitters should have fought to drug test the members of their ultimate Frisbee team, and then when interest in the sport waned the university wouldn’t have needed that $120 million indoor disc golf course.
via Deadspin
By Rocky Thompson- rockythompson
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September 11th, 2008 at 10:40 am
$124 is a pretty good deal on a sports facility.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Not that it matters, but Cal Berkeley has one of the best football teams in the nation. Part of the PAC-10, the AP has them ranked at #23 and ESPN at #25.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:35 am
THE University of California AT Berkeley. You didn’t know they had sports team?
NCAA knowledge FAIL!
September 11th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Rockys sports knowledge starts at Brett and ends at Farve.
September 11th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Want to see some priceless photos and narrative of the whole thing?
Go here-
http://www.zombietime.com/berkeley_tree-sit_finally_ends/
September 11th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Mmmm I do love disc courses. THough they are far more interesting with obstacles like trees involved. Perhaps it’d be all modorn futuristic like an indoor paintball field.
Now collegiate sports? Boo that. All “learing is for sucks” and “new science center? Hell no! Let’s build a fieldhouse or stadium instead. Gotta get back into the Corporate Advertisement Here Bowl because it’s importat…yeah…”
September 15th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I like how the crane operator is filming the whole deal. He’s totally going to blog the shit out of this.