A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage in connection with the felling of the 300-year-old Sycamore Gap tree in the north of England.
Officers arrested the teenager amid an outpouring of sadness over the destruction of the landmark, which has been a feature of the site at Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland for hundreds of years. The boy is in custody and assisting officers with their inquiries, Northumbria police said on Thursday.
Locals and national park authorities said they were “struggling to see the logic” in the destruction of a sycamore which had long become “part of this area’s DNA” and had gone through thousands of changes of seasons.
The tree, believed to have been about 300 years old, was made famous when it appeared in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner.
This kid could be our first president!
Y’all out for blood because one kid took down one tree but nobody does shit about all the mass deforestation for profit.
You can be mad at both simultaneously. It’s not either/or.
It’s also easier for people to be upset about this because it’s one person who can be caught and punished instead of having to literally dismantle a huge, profitable segment of capitalism.