"Remembering the Toomers Oaks" thread

djsimp · « **Reply #60 on:** March 08, 2012, 02:09:13 PM »

I'd take the trees to live and Updick to get less charges or even freed. This guy is super stupid anyways and is bound to get run over by a garbage truck at some point.

dallaswareagle · « **Reply #61 on:** March 08, 2012, 02:32:29 PM »

Quote from: GH2001 on March 08, 2012, 01:42:11 PM

Saw the headline this morning and had to do a double take at it. Good news.

Would be some shit if they made it eh?

I wonder if the real easy winter helped out?

AU_Tiger_2000 · « **Reply #62 on:** March 13, 2012, 10:30:13 AM »

Quote from: djsimp on March 08, 2012, 02:09:13 PM

I'd take the trees to live and Updork to get less charges or even freed. This guy is super stupid anyways and is bound to get run over by a garbage truck at some point.

What an oddly specific threat. You don't happen to have family in the waste disposal business in Lee County do you?

djsimp · « **Reply #63 on:** March 13, 2012, 10:32:10 AM »

Quote from: AU_Tiger_2000 on March 13, 2012, 10:30:13 AM

What an oddly specific threat. You don't happen to have family in the waste disposal business in Lee County do you?

No, but shit happens

AUJarhead · « **Reply #64 on:** March 14, 2012, 05:03:52 PM »

Quote from: djsimp on March 08, 2012, 02:09:13 PM

I'd take the trees to live and Updick to get less charges or even freed. This guy is super stupid anyways and is bound to get run over by a garbage truck at some point.

... and then I'm sure the driver of the garbage truck would back up, just to verify if he hit something on accident.

JR4AU · « **Reply #65 on:** March 14, 2012, 06:22:33 PM »

The Lee Co. DA's father is a lawyer I deal with on occasion. He says it won't matter if the trees live, they are still going forward.

Token · « **Reply #66 on:** March 14, 2012, 08:46:20 PM »

Quote from: JR4AU on March 14, 2012, 06:22:33 PM

The Lee Co. DA's father is a lawyer I deal with on occasion. He says it won't matter if the trees live, they are still going forward.

I figured "intent" would apply here. I know criminal mischief and theft are apples and oranges, but we charged a guy with theft 1st last week because he stacked a shit ton of property next to the front door in the residence. He was about to make entry back into the residence to retrieve the property when a family member of the home owner pulled into the residence and scared him off.

Again, I know the charges are world's apart, but intent is all the same. Harvey very well intended to kill the trees and admitted his intention. I'd be shocked if he isn't convicted.

JR4AU · « **Reply #67 on:** March 14, 2012, 08:51:24 PM »

Quote from: Token on March 14, 2012, 08:46:20 PM

I figured "intent" would apply here. I know criminal mischief and theft are apples and oranges, but we charged a guy with theft 1st last week because he stacked a shit ton of property next to the front door in the residence. He was about to make entry back into the residence to retrieve the property when a family member of the home owner pulled into the residence and scared him off.

Again, I know the charges are world's apart, but intent is all the same. Harvey very well intended to kill the trees and admitted his intention. I'd be shocked if he isn't convicted.

That, and I don't guess you have to prove he killed them to prove he damaged them. If I key your car, you can still drive it with the damage, or get it fixed. Auburn has spend a shit ton of money "fixing" the trees.

djsimp · « **Reply #68 on:** April 30, 2012, 09:00:49 AM »

http://ocm.auburn.edu/news/oaks_update_april12.pdf

The Prowler · « **Reply #69 on:** May 01, 2012, 09:09:15 PM »

Not good...

http://m.myfoxal.com/autojuice?targetUrl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.myfoxal.com%2fstory%2f17955924%2ftoomers-oak-show-new-signs-of-poison

djsimp · « **Reply #70 on:** July 10, 2012, 08:12:25 PM »

Can someone else verify the ocm.auburn.edu link for the oaks update is no longer available. I can't seem to connect to it.

Aubie16 · « **Reply #71 on:** July 31, 2012, 04:27:30 PM »

Quote from: djsimp on July 10, 2012, 08:12:25 PM

Can someone else verify the ocm.auburn.edu link for the oaks update is no longer available. I can't seem to connect to it.

Taken down because of the gag order with the Updyke trial. Stupid that it applies to the health of the trees as well imo.

Quote

The media gag order on persons involved in the Harvey Updyke case apparently extends all the way to the oaks caretakers themselves. No more roller coaster status reports. No more canopy rides. No more â€œcome check out the Toomerâ€™s tomatoâ€¦â€
Auburn Universityâ€™s official Toomerâ€™s Oaks updates page has even been taken down.
Meanwhile rumors on the oaks conditionâ€”and the condition of their possible replacementsâ€”continue to circulate.
The gag order is expected to stay in effect throughout Updykeâ€™s trial, which resumes October 1.

djsimp · « **Reply #72 on:** July 31, 2012, 04:31:33 PM »

Quote from: Aubie16 on July 31, 2012, 04:27:30 PM

Taken down because of the gag order with the Updyke trial. Stupid that it applies to the health of the trees as well imo.

Wow, how fucking retarded.

Thanks for the info by the way.

Townhallsavoy · « **Reply #73 on:** August 08, 2012, 03:28:34 PM »

Buzz Killington · « **Reply #74 on:** August 08, 2012, 03:53:12 PM »

Damn, that is disgusting to see.

bottomfeeder · « **Reply #75 on:** August 08, 2012, 04:01:54 PM »

Quote from: djsimp on March 08, 2012, 02:09:13 PM

I'd take the trees to live and Updick to get less charges or even freed. This guy is super stupid anyways and is bound to get run over by a garbage truck at some point.

I'm stealing this.

dallaswareagle · « **Reply #76 on:** August 08, 2012, 04:08:46 PM »

Quote from: Buzz Killington on August 08, 2012, 03:53:12 PM

Damn, that is disgusting to see.

Instead of practice today they should have had the players come and watch.

Tiger Wench · « **Reply #77 on:** August 08, 2012, 04:40:30 PM »

That picture would hurt my stomach a little less if Updyke's dessciated, crow picked, toilet papered, drawn and quartered corpse was hanging from one of those branches...

I hope he gets cornholed on an hourly basis in prison.

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #78 on:** August 08, 2012, 05:38:47 PM »

I was there this past Saturday and it looks like there's maybe 20% growth left on both trees. Just F'd up!!!

Jumbo · « **Reply #79 on:** August 08, 2012, 06:33:03 PM »

Before and after pictures.....I'm so fucking pissed off.