A few liters of acetone'll fix that problem right up.

Really all you need to do is get a saw and just cut a tiny notch all the way around the bark right at the base of the tree. But I think this news story might be enough; I have a feeling someone will "help her out" with this now.

NIMBY? More like, "I cannot be responsible for cleaning up after this tree since I'm old, widowed, and disabled." Slight difference there.

An operator informed her the city owns the sidewalk and has the right to put a tree there.

"Who's responsible if somebody slips on the leaves?" Cardozo inquired.

"The homeowner," the operator replied.

Goddamnitsomuch.

She'll be dead before too long.

A tree had stood on this spot for decades but died six years ago, shortly after Smith lost her husband.

"It died right after he died," she noted.

Read more: "Brooklyn woman objects to city tree - and gets threatened with jail" - http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/05/17/2009-05-17_tree_drama_is _nuts_bklyn_woman_objects_to_planting__and_gets_threatened_with_jai.html#ixzz0Fn NWDJQs&A


Well, plant her a new husband to go with it, then. Problem solved.

/Not volunteering til I see a pic.

for people who don't know what NIMBY means it's NOT IN MY BACK YARD

/just wanted people to know

That's not NIMBY assmitter. Did you read the article you submitted?

Tr0mBoNe: She'll be dead before too long.

Probably from slipping on a leaf.

"A female ginkgo means cleaning up fallen fruit whose smell has been variously compared to rancid butter, vomit and dog droppings"

nice!

Brooklyn woman objects to city tree - and gets threatened with jail


A tree grows [somewhere else] in Brooklyn.


PS Dear submitter - the B in NIMBY stands for 'Back'; this dispute clearly took place at the front of this woman's house. In the future, please use NIMFY to describe people like whatshername. Thank you.

Englebert Slaptyback: PS Dear submitter - the B in NIMBY stands for 'Back'; this dispute clearly took place at the front of this woman's house. In the future, please use NIMFY to describe people like whatshername. Thank you.

They can just use NIMFY for everything. "Not In My F*cking Yard*

At first, I was going to post wondering who the hell would object to a tree, but after RTFA.... Yeah, I can see her point.

She specifically got an answer before the program that they wouldn't plant another tree. She PAID to get the place paved over. NYC or Brooklyn has a retarded ordinance that the homeowner of a CITY PLANTED TREE is responsible if someone cracks their neck because of slipping on a fallen leaf, and she can't do it.

I can completely see her position, especially after the forestry guy threatens her awesome neighbor, a one-in-a million person herself for actually sticking her neck for someone else in that city, with jail just for a legal protest.... Wow. What a world.

I was going to come here to call her a coont until I read that she would be the one on the hook if someone "slipped and fell" because of the leaves. This wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for scumbag lawyers and their trash clients that hop on these opportunities.

I be that tree will be gone by tomorrow morning...

Seems like this article went really far to make this into a huge deal. I mean, it's a tree in a tree pit. I'm real sorry she has some sort of sentimental attachment to there not being a tree there but is it really her sidewalk?

And honestly, let's not pretend like all of us in this city have to go around raking up the abundance of leaves in the fall.

Sidewalk trees are stupid anyways.

I don't think the seasonal beauty of some multicolored leaves and blossoms is enough to compensate for the raping that the root system will lay on the sidewalk and street. There are sidewalks you could ski down in L.A. because of these damn streetside trees.

unlikely: Really all you need to do is get a saw and just cut a tiny notch all the way around the bark right at the base of the tree. But I think this news story might be enough; I have a feeling someone will "help her out" with this now.

This. You could pay a couple of teenagers to pull it out and carry it off somewhere. Burn it in tribute to their heavy metal music. The teenagers, they'll do anything for money and semi-vandalism.

They should replace that tree with a nuclear reactor.

Buy a damn leaf blower.

derbtastic: Seems like this article went really far to make this into a huge deal. I mean, it's a tree in a tree pit. I'm real sorry she has some sort of sentimental attachment to there not being a tree there but is it really her sidewalk?

And honestly, let's not pretend like all of us in this city have to go around raking up the abundance of leaves in the fall.

Alacritous 2009-05-17 01:09:43 PM
A few liters of acetone'll fix that problem right up.
No, then you'll just have a dead tree, and who is gonna get rid of it? Unless the acetone was supposed to be applied to the 'instantly nasty forestry supervisor'...

I'm confused by the modern, East Coast world and its talk of "raking".

Aren't leaves removed by Mexicans with leaf-blowers?

/middle seat, to get accustomed to discomfort

Kierkegaard's Pseudonym: Sidewalk trees are stupid anyways.

I don't think the seasonal beauty of some multicolored leaves and blossoms is enough to compensate for the raping that the root system will lay on the sidewalk and street. There are sidewalks you could ski down in L.A. because of these damn streetside trees.

I love trees. I think they are beautiful, amazing plants. I love hiking through forests of them.

However, I also love flowers. I would be perfectly happy with patches of flowering plants along sidewalks. Flowers that look pretty but don't block street signs so I can see where I need to turn. Flowers that have small roots that won't hurt pavement and sidewalks. And flowers smell nice.

I have a ginko in my backyard that produces the aforementioned smelly fruit. Fortunately the fruit starts rotting late in the fall when it's already cold and I'm not using the backyard as much. I would NOT want to have this tree on a sidewalk. Some of the fruit actually rots on the tree and falls to the ground and splits apart. It would be hell for pedestrians - like walking on dog poop.

That being said, they are slow growing trees and she may be long gone before it starts to produce significant fruit (assuming it's the female tree).

I do love the no-lose situation the City built for itself.
It says that it has the right to plant the tree...but doesn't have to maintain the tree, and doesn't have to take responsibility for liabilities caused by the tree.

Only the government could think up a perfect ass-cover like that and have it work.

Jocundry: However, I also love flowers. I would be perfectly happy with patches of flowering plants along sidewalks. Flowers that look pretty but don't block street signs so I can see where I need to turn. Flowers that have small roots that won't hurt pavement and sidewalks. And flowers smell nice.

I second the motion on flowers.

Ishidan: I do love the no-lose situation the City built for itself.
It says that it has the right to plant the tree...but doesn't have to maintain the tree, and doesn't have to take responsibility for liabilities caused by the tree.

Only the government could think up a perfect ass-cover like that and have it work.

Change you can believe in!

One of my friends lives on a street with these kinds of trees. Yes, they smell AWFUL. My first time walking to her door from my car, I kept looking down to make sure I wouldn't step in the pool of vomit I assumed I was smelling.

The Smails Kid: I'm confused by the modern, East Coast world and its talk of "raking".

Aren't leaves removed by Mexicans with leaf-blowers?

once again, naivety and racism rear their ugly heads on fark. sometimes they're Guatemalan, bigot.

Nemo's Brother: Change you can believe in!

As much as i'd love to be able to blame Obama, this sort of crap has been going on for a while, and not just in NYC.

Frankly, I'd like to see a lawsuit brought against the city for destroying something a citizen invested in (after checking with the city) and are now forcing liability on her.

Nemo's Brother: Change you can believe in!

Jebus, you're like a pimple on the ass of Fark.

ecalcott: The Smails Kid: I'm confused by the modern, East Coast world and its talk of "raking".

Aren't leaves removed by Mexicans with leaf-blowers?

once again, naiveté and racism rear their ugly heads on fark. sometimes they're Guatemalan, bigot.

I come to Fark to be enlightened. Thank you for graciously sharing your wisdom.

/FTFY
//Pedant

she should encourage young lovers to memorialize their relationship by carving up that tree...





"now now, that side's already been used...try carving a little to the left....that's it..."

A tree grouses in Brooklyn?

I hear they had to edit down her comments for the story:

We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

Somebody should tie a politician to the tree and set it on fire

Ishidan: No, then you'll just have a dead tree,

Don't have to worry about raking up leaves.. and nothing'll grow in that spot after a liberal application of acetone.

Alacritous: Ishidan: No, then you'll just have a dead tree,

Don't have to worry about raking up leaves.. and nothing'll grow in that spot after a liberal application of acetone.

You right-wingnuts will insert politics into anything.

The Smails Kid: You right-wingnuts will insert politics into anything.

Oh shut up, you.

Alacritous: The Smails Kid: You right-wingnuts will insert politics into anything.

Oh shut up, you.

It's a liberal acetone conspiracy I say!!

Alacritous:

Oh shut up, you.

Don't talk to me like that, assface. I don't work for you yet.

The Smails Kid: Alacritous: Ishidan: No, then you'll just have a dead tree,

Don't have to worry about raking up leaves.. and nothing'll grow in that spot after a liberal application of acetone.

You right-wingnuts will insert politics into anything.

Unlike liberals that will insert their penis into anything

Ah, city dwellers.

Did she seriously ask "what if someone slips on the leaves?"

Smeggy Smurf:

Unlike liberals that will insert their penis into anything

Especially smurfs. Quiet, Smeggy - big boys don't cry.

The Smails Kid: Smeggy Smurf:

Unlike liberals that will insert their penis into anything

Especially smurfs. Quiet, Smeggy - big boys don't cry.

If you wanted to smurf a smurf let's so smurf Smurfette in her smurf all smurfing night

Smeggy Smurf:


If you wanted to smurf a smurf let's so smurf Smurfette in her smurf all smurfing night

Eiffel Smurfy Tower?

I love all the suggestions for cutting the tree down.

How about, oh, I don't know, one of her neighbors being a good samaritan and doing the leaf cleanup for her? She clearly lives in an area where she's got lots of neighbors. Are people really that insular and self-absorbed that no one there would be willing to do this?

Naman: Are people really that insular and self-absorbed

Well, it's Brooklyn, so...yeah!

The Smails Kid: Naman: Are people really that insular and self-absorbed

Well, it's Brooklyn, so...yeah!

Have you ever been there? Or have you ever met a someone from the City? Your post would lead me to believe not.