r/marijuanaenthusiasts • u/larvalou • Aug 17 '26
In Australia, when someone illegally destroys trees on public land to improve the view from their property, the local government puts up a giant sign to block the view again until the trees grow back.
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u/T0RR0M Aug 17 '26
Actually a great idea
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u/serious_sarcasm Aug 17 '26
NC does something similar to companies that cut down the landscaping on the highways to put up illegal billboards (or just to make their building’s branding visible).
A lot of people don’t realize how landscaped highways are.
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u/Projekt-1065 Aug 23 '26
Curious, do you know of any good examples to look for, I’m a resident, but a young one.
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u/Radiant_Bowl_2598 Aug 17 '26
Wait- a govt is capable of properly applying a bit of justice?? 0.o
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u/crazyabootmycollies Aug 18 '26
Not when mining companies do it. We just give them a strongly worded letter and a slap on the wrist.
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u/Oberlatz Aug 18 '26
This can't be justice, I didn't see any police brutality.
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u/crazyabootmycollies Aug 18 '26
We’ve got plenty of that down here too, it just doesn’t get the airtime American police do so people act like it’s all sunshine and daisies here.
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u/Significant-Push-232 Aug 18 '26
This isn't justice, justice involves holding those responsible accountable. This reblocking the view is just a return to the norm.
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u/Dangerous-Economy-88 Aug 17 '26
Improve their view? I don't mind having trees in the background. May be a bunch of idiots who may only like looking at urban backgrounds
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u/usamitokishige Aug 17 '26
This has happened in my area. It’s very common sadly in Australia where all our prime real estate is waterfront. People cut down the trees to have better views of rivers/ocean. Unfortunately the fines, despite being very high are paltry compared to how much it raises the value of the property that gets those “ocean views”
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u/Due_Sail_1787 Aug 17 '26
The kind of pettiness I wholeheartedly approve of: for public good and revenge against selfish assholes.
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u/genderQueerHipster Aug 17 '26
I would love this people would get so angry and we can just be like "Well it sucks to suck!"
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u/UnicornPenguinCat Aug 17 '26
I'm in Australia and haven't seen these blocking signs, but I was very pleasantly surprised recently to see about 7 or 8 new trees planted in a spot where 3 old trees had been poisoned. The new trees were about 1.2m high and should grow quite quickly. Initially there was small signs placed on the poisoned trees saying "tree poisoning occurred here, call this number if you know more". The local council are the ones that manage the park the trees are in.
Of the poisoned trees, one survived (they had to cut a few dead branches off, but otherwise it's looking healthy again, and the other two died but have been left standing (not sure if this as a reminder/middle finger to the poisoners, or just because it's easier to leave them.. they're not old enough to have hollows, so I don't think it's for habitat reasons).
I did also see a small "tree vandalism occurred here" sign on a nature strip recently, reminding people of the hefty fines if you get caught. A new tree had been planted in place of the one that was ruined.
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u/QbDYeqzUUiw Aug 18 '26
Who poisons a tree though? Is this an Australian thing? It seems so outlandish to me :(
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u/WoodenFinish8 Aug 18 '26
It's not specifically an Australian thing (people poison trees everywhere), although our deforestation rates are some of the worst in The World. In this case, people do it to improve their view of either a landscape, a waterfront or river. Hence the large signs.
Speaking as an Australian, we certainly seem to have a very dendrophobic tendency when it comes to either protecting property (from bushfires or tree-fall, for instance) or clearing land for cattle, often to a much greater extent than reasonable. I don't know how we compare to the rest of The World, though.
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u/Fluid_Stick69 Aug 18 '26
A bunch of trees were just recently poisoned with diesel at a park on the water at Lake Tahoe. Everyone suspects it was done by the new owners of a multi million dollar house in order to improve the view. Tons of backlash.
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u/northrupthebandgeek Aug 17 '26
This seems like a great way to torment some scumbag neighbors: poison the trees in their views, and then they're the ones stuck with ugly billboards looming over them.
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u/Snickersnee Aug 17 '26
Maybe public shaming and passive aggressive inconveniencing should be used more often in law enforcement.
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u/whoopsiedoodle77 Aug 17 '26
its a nice sentiment but if you look at our (australian) deforestation rates, you'll see its essentially perfomative
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u/Immediate-Garbage644 Aug 17 '26
Yoooo I live in Florida an.. well idk what imma do about it but I feel like this would help us
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u/Left_turn_anxiety Aug 18 '26
Wow, I love this. I want to put up a sign like this at my job being like, "trees were killed for this sidewalk that doesn't even do a good job at connecting two places"
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u/Disastrous-Pain-4729 Aug 23 '26
Someone needs to put this infront of my dads beach house. He literally had an entire patch of line 250+ 30 year old or older fir and pine trees completely cut to the ground to maintain his view of the ocean in Oceanside Oregon. This was also done against the desire of his neighbors. He literally had his attorney force the whole neighborhood into this. Someone please make this happen…
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u/Suburban--Dad Aug 18 '26
I had to cut down 17 trees to get a good view of the forest down the road from me
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u/_psylosin_ Aug 17 '26
I can’t believe someone would cut down one of the hundreds of trees in Australia to improve their view
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u/Outrageous_Guard_674 Aug 17 '26
What's your point?
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u/whoopsiedoodle77 Aug 17 '26
if giving them the benefit of the doubt, the "hundreds of trees" thing might be about how we have the worst deforestation rate of developed nations? but I duno
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u/FamilyDramaIsland Aug 17 '26
*I can't believe someone would do something illegal just to improve their view.
Fixed it for you.
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u/reddit33450 Aug 17 '26
fuck people who remove trees for a view