Sunday, March 23, 2008

Council couldn't contain itself

Australian council takes revenge on suspected tree loppers


A council has taken the extraordinary step of stacking two empty shipping containers on a cliff top to spoil water views for householders suspected of illegally cutting down trees. Port Stephens Council put them there - with a crane, at a cost of more than $10,000 - to punish those responsible for cutting down 20 trees. Irate locals are calling the green monolith "a monument to stupidity" and complain they are being treated like children.

Anonymous said...
A better idea would be to have made whoever cut down the trees pay to replace them.

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Anonymous said...

The members of the council should be made to pay for this stupidity out of their own pockets. A better idea would be to have made whoever cut down the trees pay to replace them.