meanwhile, there are hundreds of acres of trees being taken down in other parts of the country (and world).

dirty hippies...

Solution: Chainsaw

tgregory: meanwhile, there are hundreds of acres of trees being taken down in other parts of the country (and world).

Form over substance.

Jebus Christ people.

As long as they are stuck there guarding the trees they are not out annoying people elsewhere. Please, set up more "hippie traps"!

Next up, Greenpeace signature whores.

xanadian: mysticcat: set up a hamburger/kielbasa grill directly upwind.

omg i am THERE!!!

Fark party in Berkley! Who's bringing the beer?

It worked for the Ewoks.

Classic Berzerkely hippie shiat. I'm not the least bit surprised.

it's illegal to be homeless in berkley so stfu and gbt...well, whatever it is you do hippies

California should issue permits for the legal culling of these hippies. Not too many, just like 3000 or so per year, they could have a permit lottery system for this.

Ok - now those are some dirty hippies!

/I'm a clean hippie

You can't come down for a Phish show...not even for Burning Man.

And this is why I groaned painfully when our friends named their daughter Berekley.

Did they ever think that they may be displacing birds by taking their habitat for their own selfish hippy agendas?

/Simpsons did it!
//insidebayarea.com trifecta in play?

Uh, not to be rude or anything, but couldn't they just buy some dirt-cheap land in nowheresville and have spent all of this time turning it into a lush, wooded nature preserve, akin to an artificial greenbelt?

degreeless: California should issue permits for the legal culling of these hippies. Not too many, just like 3000 or so per year, they could have a permit lottery system for this.

I would recommend a system like our "earn a buck" (you have to shoot a doe first)

Send in the Ewoks!

Solution:

Just read an article about this in our student rag (not Berkeley). Turns out these are not even ancient irreplaceable trees, they were planted by the university itself not too long ago. And the university vowed to plant three new ones for every one they cut down for the stadium annex.

So yeah, I like trees as much as the next guy, but this is pretty silly.

Little tidbit about the Berkeley spirit: The university supplies water and energy bars to the protesters living in the trees.

someone please think of the trees!!!!

mysticcat: Pipe in death metal (Gorgoroth!) music 24/7 and set up a hamburger/kielbasa grill directly upwind.

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Can it please be time for live target practice?

Hippies =/= Terrorists

But close enough, they're both dirty and need to shave

I remember these types from The Evergreen State College back in the '80s. Same. Same, same, same.

When planning their drum circle protests, they all got excited about every single thing they thought-up. There was never anyone in the room to say, "Hang on. That last idea might make us look like silly cliches. Let's not do that one."

I've just erected a tent thinking about dead hippies so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/shifts in chair

If it works it's not silly.

We have the same problem at UCSC. I think the best way to force them out of the trees is with a fire hose. It may not knock them out, but they will give up very fast. Hippies hate water because A) it cleans them, and B) it gets their bud wet.

Drum circles are pretty fun in the right places.

3 in a tree and a bunch in a median. Set up about 800yds away. Use standard rounds rather than AP. M82A1 with 3 mags. We could have hippie souffle by the end of the day!

It's a good thing those hippies are there. That forest on campus is known as the rape forest. At least with constant hippie presence it will probably scare off the homeless dudes that hide out there and occasionally rape some little Asian chick walking through the woods at night.

Dark Overlord

3 in a tree and a bunch in a median. Set up about 800yds away. Use standard rounds rather than AP. M82A1 with 3 mags. We could have hippie souffle by the end of the day!

.50 cal api

Release the hounds.

Is there such a thing as a non-hippy drum circle, I just don't see the idea of getting together and playing a poorly coordinated set on your bongos as something anyone but hippies would think to do.

Gish21: It's a good thing those hippies are there. That forest on campus is known as the rape forest. At least with constant hippie presence it will probably scare off the homeless dudes that hide out there and occasionally rape some little Asian chick walking through the woods at night.

I have to be honest... When I think of tree dwelling hippies, "protectors of chastity" does not come immediately to mind.

"You can't OWN land, man"

"No you can't, but I can. But that's because I'm not a penniless hippie"

Gish21: It's a good thing those hippies are there. That forest on campus is known as the rape forest. At least with constant hippie presence it will probably scare off the homeless dudes that hide out there and occasionally rape some little Asian chick walking through the woods at night.

Great, now I have find another place?

Lt Shiny Sides: Drum circles are pretty fun in the right places.

After hours at a Highland Games they are pretty awesome. There aren't many hippies in that crowd.

Dogs, fire hoses, mace, tasers, there are so many "fun" ways to fix this problem.

Methinks that it would be more beneficial to go totally Johnny Appleseed and plant trees like crazy.

Seriously, if you went around planting trees in rational places, most people would just leave 'em. It would seem to be a better use of your time than living in one tree for two years just to save it. They grow by themselves ya know.

/justsayin'

Gish21: It's a good thing those hippies are there. That forest on campus is known as the rape forest. At least with constant hippie presence it will probably scare off the homeless dudes that hide out there and occasionally rape some little Asian chick walking through the woods at night.

The existence of a "rape forest" puts the needle into the cheery red "Nuke The Place From Orbit" area on the Vexometer.

/Save a little Asian chick! Kill a homeless person!