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Are Trees Really More Valuable Than Children?

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In Iowa, two young boys are facing felony charges for tearing a bit of bark off a playground tree.

Police in Mason City, Iowa recently arrested two children and charged them with felony criminal mischief for stripping bark from a tree in front of their school.  A neighbor with nothing better to do with their time witnessed the children peeling the bark from the tree and felt the need to call the police.

Meanwhile, in California, an illegal immigrant who ran over two little girls in her car – killing them – gets off scot-free. No prison time, and she won’t be deported because of Obama’s DACA Amnesty program.

Does this seem right to you?

Comments

  3. I would have to know a lot more. How much bark did the boys peel off?A lot or little? How important is bark to the tree? Did the amount of bark removed permanently damage the tree? Can the tree regrow new bark? I’ve heard that if a worm is cut in half each half will regrow the missing part, I wondered if mother nature provided the same ability to trees. Whatever, I just think this does not rise to a felony, a misdemeaner. Branding kids as felons could have a serious impact on their lives. If the tree has to be removed it would be poetic justice, if in cutting it down, it fell on the neighbor’s roof.

  4. I concur that you need to know more about the events in Iowa, but a felony charge? There had BETTER be more to the story that two kids pulling bark off a tree for that. A LOT more.

    There is no excuse for the event in California, though. That is blatant disregard for the lives of children.

  6. I suppose there was once a time when officialdom tried to avoid looking like raving loons – but I suppose that time is long past.

    Seems to me like some enterprising politician can run on a platform of firing the idiots who brought these charges (and who suspend kids for gun-shaped Pop Tarts).

    The sane thing to do would be to have the kids (parents) pay for the damages – but that would make way too much sense.

    Tyranny.

  7. Welcome to the world of leftist a where running over children gets no punishment but tree bark is sacred.

    In the lefts eyes plants, trees and endangered species mean more than children if those children are harmed by an illegal immigrant.

  9. Roberto if you are not being sarcastic, as long as you don’t strip the bark in a ring all the way around it can grow back, you can look up how to make Aspirin & Quinine from tree bark to see how much can be harvested.

    That said it is just like the O-Holes race based school discipline plan to suspend Asians for chewing gum, but not blacks for raping Asians chewing gum.

  10. Roberto @ #3 strikes a valid point.

    In reading the links and links within the links ….. I discovered that the bark peeling kids were charged with a felony because the costs of removing the tree and replacing the tree were estimated at $1300 or so. Others rebutted that the tree could be removed and replaced for under $500. So the whole felony charge was based on dollar amounts of supposed damage done.

    Being a Columbo fan, I would need to know just how the kids so damaged the tree that it had to be replaced. Did they girdle it? How do we know? Did they finish the job of a partially girdled tree? How do we know?

    Lets assume that they took a machete and assiduously ringed the tree as a neighbor recorded it all on a cell phone. Lets assume that three independent tree surgeons gave a “can’t be saved” opinion. Now we have the destruction of public property and a tort which can result in a monetary assessment against the perps or their parents.

    The point in post is the weight of public interest in comparing a dead tree with a hit-and-run in which two children ended up dead as a result of the incident.

    There is an unstated possibility of comparison as well. Was the tree a volunteer which was incorporated into the landscape? Might the school have asked for it to be removed under other circumstances? Do we find the hit-and-run manslaughters to be more egregious because the driver was unlicensed, impaired, and illegal immigrant, a convicted felon, a prostitute late for a rendezvous, etc.?

    This is the stuff of the very foundation of ethics and morality.

  11. Steve @ 9.

    I repeat we don’t know how much bark was stripped. As for growing back I wasn’t being sarcastic, I was asking in ignorance. I’ve never been one for science such zoology, barely passing biology as a college freshman. So thank you for the info.