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February 01, 2005
Hippie Hoot of the Day
This lady has been all over the local news lately. Her problem? The wicked power company injected a tree growth retardant on their easement across her property. (registration req'd) SWEPCO has apparently started doing this in certain areas so they can limit how often they have to trim the trees back. You know, so the branches don't take down the power lines every winter.
But this is evidently a bad thing because.....it's chemicals, man. So she had a hissy fit, called the cops, the mayor's office, and made all the local news stations last night. Because, like, the power company shouldn't be allowed to use chemicals on their easement without asking.
Besides (and here's the hoot) they are infringing on one of her constitutional rights.
Schram supported electric company’s practice of trimming limbs but considered the use of Cambistat an infringement on her right to have larger branches on her trees. [emphasis added]
Funny, I don't remember reading about that right in law school. But then, they prolly skipped over that part during my indoctrination by The Man.
I hope this crazy cow doesn't live anywhere around us. I likes my 'lectricity.
Posted by Rita at February 1, 2005 06:45 AM
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If she doesn't like the chemicals, would she feel any better if they simply chopped down the tree? How 'bout they let the tree grow w/o retardent but tell her that she's responsible if the tree ever causes an outage? If the time ever comes where that tree causes a power outage, they could send her a bill for the work required to restore service as well as tell all their customers to take her to court for causing a public nuisance. ;)
Posted by: Bob at February 2, 2005 08:50 AM
That's why we love you Bob. You're so sensible.
People around here just kill me. They have a hissy fit when the power company does anything to the 'sacred' trees. Yet they're the first ones to scream bloody murder when they lose power in the winter and they can't turn on their dehydrator to dry the tree moss & lichens they use for tampons.
Posted by: rita at February 2, 2005 09:04 AM