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Toomer's Oaks were poisoned - KEEP ALL TREE TALK HERE
Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:34 pm
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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.
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.
This post was edited on 2/17/11 at 8:52 am
Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:35 pm to NYCAuburn
FWIW I don't approve of this
This post was edited on 2/16/11 at 3:43 pm
Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:38 pm to NYCAuburn
Mods kept deleting my story about this.
This post was edited on 2/16/11 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:39 pm to BamaFan89
This will be y'alls first and last thread about the landscape battle between the schools.
Keep it off of here, please.
Keep it off of here, please.
Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:40 pm to RummelTiger
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landscape battle between the schools

I'm planting some crimson rose bushes all over that bitch.
This post was edited on 2/16/11 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:40 pm to RummelTiger
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the landscape battle between the schools.
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Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:41 pm to NYCAuburn
Thats not cool. I'm every bit as big of a bama fan as anyone else on this board, and I thougt the grass thing was funny, I mean hell, its grass, but 130 year old trees? This is a new low for this rivalry imo and I am ashamed of this.
Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:41 pm to jatebe
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T Shirts
Just kick some royalties this way.

Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:41 pm to NYCAuburn
Crapp. I'm sorry about this. As a 'Bama fan, if I hear about who did this, I will turn them in to police. I encourage other Alabama fans to do the same.
That's ridiculous!
That's ridiculous!

Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:42 pm to BamaFan89
This really pisses me off, but I know 99% of Bama fans wouldn't do this, so I won't hold it against all of you.
Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:42 pm to RummelTiger
sorry, didnt realize they were being deleted.
I had seen where they said it was not true, so I thought i would post that it was.
I had seen where they said it was not true, so I thought i would post that it was.
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RummelTiger
Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:42 pm to BamaFan89
Such a classless and selfish act could only be perpetrated by a sorry arse bandwagon bammer
Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:42 pm to BamaFan89
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BamaFan89
lol...
It was directed to all AU/UA fans, not just you.
Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:42 pm to BamaFan89

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frick with our grass and we take out your precious trees


On a serious note though, whoever did this..did go a little TOO far with this whole "battle" between the schools in the off season.

This post was edited on 2/16/11 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:42 pm to ThaKaptin
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Thats not cool.
agree, this is WAY overboard.

Posted on 2/16/11 at 3:43 pm to parkjas2001
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its open season if they die.
Think it's been open season for awhile now.
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