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Uh, since when is Capitol Hill in Vancouver? You see that .ca in the URL? Means Canada (a country), not CApitol hill (ja hipster enclave that has yet to issue passports or currency).

it was mr. poe! or bellevue ave. or comte. or ecce homo. yeah, that's it! ecce homo. you tree-hating bastard, you!

Someone really didn't want that tree to live. Usually the practice of killing trees by bark removal is called "girdling." The use of a drill and herbicide seems like, um, overkill.

@3. look, i've seen quite a bit of law&order:csi, and i can tell you that the fact that it was "overkill" will tell us something about the murderer. they must have had an emotional relationship with the victim, or an emotional instability. which of the suspects matches this description?

That blog's April Fools post was moderately funny, too.

i'd like to destroy my neighbors' brand new 1.75 million dollar HOUSE for blocking my view.

I live a house away from the tree in question.

It was a sad day when they took it down. The lumberjacks were sad too. But I kept a couple of trunk sections to be plant stands on my porch.

I would love to talk to the fucker who killed the tree.

@7 - plant stands... or subtle souvenirs from your vanquished foe?

@1

Uh, since when do you spout you mouth off without knowing the facts? simple minds are easy to fool, fool.

read the blog? egg on your face nerd.

Having a tree grow up and obscuring a view, then poisoning it to ensure its removal - is that analogous to having a building go up obscuring a view and blowing the building up before its inhabited?

Here's how it can happen: The justification for poisoning someone else's tree (or really, even your own) comes from one's belief that, "There is no one in this world who matters but me."

hmmm... at first thought I'd guess the landlord. The tree might have been messing with pipes or concrete work. But if it wasn't, it is definately a value to the property, so a bastard neighbor it may have been.

Who called the guys to come have the dying tree removed? A dead tree can be legally removed without complications - a living tree can create a stickier scenario, even on your own property.

Strangely, I just did a Google search curious what the penalty for killing a mature tree might be, and everything kept coming back to message board posts from a Washington resident looking how to covertly kill a tree.