Toomer's Oaks were poisoned - KEEP ALL TREE TALK HERE

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ADMIN NOTE: Keep all horticultural smack-talk in this thread.

Edit: From seeing where this post started and where it is evolving to. I thought I might put it in perspective for some of you. I work in the insurance field, so I see stuff similar to this all the time. Not vandalization but losing something that has value other that the replacement cost.

Yes, they are just trees, which can be replanted, and they do have saplings started, but nowhere near big enough. But the value goes way beyond the trees. It is the attachment that every Auburn fan has to them. We celebrate after great victories together as a University underneath them.

I will relate it another way to the people that can’t seem to comprehend. Do you have a family heirloom that has been handed down to you? This is the same. What if someone were to steal that from you? That is how Auburn feels right now. I had a 1911 pistol handed down to me from my father, from his father, that he used in WWI. Some a-hole a few years ago decided they wanted it more than I did and decided to steal it from me. Yes, I can go out and buy a brand new 1911, that is much better than the original, but what is the point. I could care less. That gun belong to my grandpa and help save his life.

During this past season, my wife became pregnant and while celebrating around toomer’s, after a victory, we both commented on how incredible it would be to bring our future child to the same celebrations. But now it will never be the same. I will never be able to tell my kid that he is doing the same tradition that my wife and I did, that her father and mother did, that her grandfather did. Yes the act would be similar, but it won’t be the same.

So if you have some snide comment to make, keep it to yourself and frick off.