(American) Tree Law is very satisfying because the cases often involve someone damaging trees that don’t belong to them, usually for an aesthetic, mercenary, petty, and/or spiteful reason. However, American tree law comes down like a HAMMER on such people, and they will get mighty fines. If the tree dies, in fact, they’ll be on the hook to replace the whole thing, and as it turns out, trees ain’t cheap. As the article above summarizes one incident in Reddit terms:
To rephrase it as an AITA post: am I the asshole if I cut down 32 trees on my neighbor’s property, but instead of just charging me a $32,000 fine, now they’re going to make me build a road and find transplanted, equally mature trees to replant?
Tree Law is perhaps one of the few branches (I didn’t even mean that to be a pun) of American law where self-entitled wrongdoers WILL face consequences. NBC Universal wants to maul a row of city-owned ficus trees to deprive striking workers of shade during a heat wave?Oh boy.
Trees are one of those things whose worth is weighed in years, whose value is inclusive of all the time that went into making it what it is. A mature tree is a MATURE tree; you cannot replace it with a sapling and call it good. You don’t just replace the tree; you must replace the years of the tree. And it turns out that finding those years to replace is both difficult and expensive.
It’s one of those lovely situations where a wrongdoer is forced to restore the situation to its former glory, cost be damned, and if it’s “too expensive” or “too inconvenient” or “I had no idea” or “this is so much trouble” then tough shit, asshole, you fucked around and by God you WILL find out.
Men need to STFU with the false equivalency, “Can I take my dick out in public and wave it around? No. So cover your boobs and feed that baby at home.”
The valid comparison is, “Can I take off my shirt and show my nipples in public? Yes. Carry on, then, that kid sounds hungry.”
“YOU FEED YOUR BABY SEMEN?!” as loudly as possible in public if this comparison ever comes up.
AU where Light just dies in a car accident one day and the entire story from that moment on is just L trying to prove that Light was Kira.
Light: dies
Kira murders: stop
L: Light was Kira
Task Force: Nah, Kira’s just mourning the death of the best student in Japan rip light #neverforget
I’m sorry when I first read this I wasn’t firing on all cylinders and I thought he died before the killing started and L was still trying to prove he was Kira
Here’s the self indulgent AU sketches I mentioned lol
The left is basically a merhog AU inspired by The Little Mermaid where instead of giving up his voice or something, he gives up the ability to swim, just in general.
Then on the right it’s a bit harder to tell, but it’s one I’ve been thinking about that I’m calling vigilante cryptid. Basically it’s a version of canon where Eggman is one of the only humans that knows about the anthros and is trying to prove their existence to his fellow scientists. Inspired by the early episodes of Sonic X and the events prior to the movies. Idk, I like this one a lot, might try doing something with it later.
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