Remember Dupster Muffin? She got out of the tree!!

[yesitsloaded]

  Remember the story I posted about the people staying in the trees and biting people. They made the news again.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/03/trees.berkeley/index.html

 And then there were three.

As the bright lights set up to keep watch on the seven remaining tree-sitters in the University of California Berkeley oak grove shone and the power generators churned late Tuesday night, 19-year-old Drew Beres descended from the grove, the first of four tree-sitters to do so in the following 15 hours.

Three protesters remain in the 19-month-long tree-sit aimed at preventing UC Berkeley from going forward with plans to build an athletic training facility on the site, which would require 44 trees in the grove to be cut down. Multiple lawsuits have been filed by community organizations with the same ultimate goal.

Unofficial protest leader Zachary RunningWolf said the remaining tree-sitters plan to stay until at least July 17 when a judge is set to determine whether UC Berkeley will be able to go ahead with construction.

At about 11:00 p.m. Tuesday, three of the tree-sitters were spotted on the ground in the fenced-off grove area.

UCPD arrested Beres at that time for trespassing and violating a court order, and the two others "scampered" up a nearby tree, said Dan Mogulof, UC Berkeley's executive director of public affairs.
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Mitch Celaya, assistant police chief of UCPD, spent about two hours Wednesday morning trying to talk those two tree-sitters down.

Fourteen hours after their initial descent, the two tree-sitters, a male and a female who goes by the name "Olive," left their tree-top roosts after speaking with Celaya. At least one of them requested to make a video statement similar to the one made by Matthew "Mizzo" Marks last week as a condition for coming down.

Soon after, the most vocal of the tree-sitters, known as "Dumpster Muffin," came down from the trees after indicating that she might be suffering from an undetermined medical condition, said Mogulof.

RunningWolf said Dumpster Muffin collapsed on the ground three times after she left her perch in the redwood and sought medical attention afterwards.

"Long exposure and no food or water takes a toll," RunningWolf said. "(The) lighting system and noise (from the power generators) are preventing the tree-sitters from sleeping."

RunningWolf attributed the fallout of the tree-sitters to exhaustion and lack of "real food." The campus has been providing the remaining tree-sitters with energy bars and 10 gallons of water every day since last Friday, though protest supporters said that is not enough to keep the tree-sitters "strong."

Campus officials said they are happy that their strategy to get the tree-sitters to leave seems to be successful.

"We are pleased that our approach seems to be working," Mogulof said. "Celaya and his officers did an incredible job (yesterday) with handling a delicate situation (professionally)."

According to an e-mail put out by the Save the Oaks campaign, two long-time tree-sit photographers, Matthew Taylor and David Wallace, want to publish a photo book documenting the tree-sit and the campaign.

[RaspberrySurprise]

Only in Berkley would protesters expect to be fed by those they are protesting. Of course the university officials are beyond stupid for giving them anything in the first place. Personally I'd set up speakers blaring death metal, that would probably shoo the hippies away pretty quick.

[MicroBalrog]

...why should they feed them? I fail to understand this.

[The Annoyed Man]

Only in Berkley would protesters expect to be fed by those they are protesting. Of course the university officials are beyond stupid for giving them anything in the first place. Personally I'd set up speakers blaring death metal, that would probably shoo the hippies away pretty quick.

Slayer should do the job .

[AmbulanceDriver]

Nah.   Find the twangiest, most annoying country music you can, and lock the knob off at "11".....   

[41magsnub]

Nah.   Find the twangiest, most annoying country music you can, and lock the knob off at "11".....   

This song would work, my old Army roommate had it on repeat on his stereo for days at a time and I finally keyed the CD while he was gone because I couldn't take it anymore:

Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)
(written by Richard Fagan and Robb Royer)

Well, I went down to the Grundy County Auction
Where I saw somethin' I just had to have
My mind told me I should proceed with caution
But my heart said "Go ahead an' make a bid on that!"

(Chorus)
An' I said, hey, pretty lady, won'cha gi'me a sign
I'd give anything to make you mine all mine
I'll do your biddin' an' be at your beckon call
Yeah, I never seen anyone lookin' so fine
Man, I gotta have have her, she's a one-of-a-kind
I'm goin' once, goin' twice,
I'm sold! On the lady in the second row
She's an eight, she's a nine, she's a ten, I know
She's got ruby-red lips, blond hair, blue eyes
An' I'm about to bid my heart good-bye!

Well, the auctioneer was goin' about a mile minute
He was takin' bids an' callin' them out loud
An' I guess I was really gettin' in it
'Cause I just shouted out above the crowd

An' I said, hey, pretty lady, won'cha gi'me a sign
I'd give anything to make you mine all mine
I'll do your biddin' an' be at your beckon call
Yeah, I never seen anyone lookin' so fine
Man, I gotta have have her, she's a one-of-a-kind
I'm goin' once, goin' twice,
I'm sold! On the lady in the long black dress
Well she won my heart, it was no contest
With her ruby-red lips, blond hair, blue eyes
An' I'm about to bid my heart good-bye!

Yeah, we found love on the auction block
An' I hauled her heart away
Now we still love to laugh about
The way we met that day

[MicroBalrog]

Nah.   Find the twangiest, most annoying country music you can, and lock the knob off at "11".....   

Country Boy Can Survive. Perfect for this.

[Bigjake]

Nah.   Find the twangiest, most annoying country music you can, and lock the knob off at "11".....   

Country Boy Can Survive. Perfect for this.

That nice post about " Thank you America", and then you go and insult Bocephus. Commie 


As for these tree dwelling granola crunchers,  I've got a waterballoon slingshot and need two volunteers...

[MicroBalrog]

Nah.   Find the twangiest, most annoying country music you can, and lock the knob off at "11".....   

Country Boy Can Survive. Perfect for this.

That nice post about " Thank you America", and then you go and insult Bocephus. Commie 

Au contraire, it is because that song is so good that it would be like Raid to commies.

[Bigjake]

Nah.   Find the twangiest, most annoying country music you can, and lock the knob off at "11".....   

Country Boy Can Survive. Perfect for this.

That nice post about " Thank you America", and then you go and insult Bocephus. Commie 

Au contraire, it is because that song is so good that it would be like Raid to commies.

Arg! You did It again! the only thing worse than Commies are the French!

[MicroBalrog]

Nah.   Find the twangiest, most annoying country music you can, and lock the knob off at "11".....   

Country Boy Can Survive. Perfect for this.

That nice post about " Thank you America", and then you go and insult Bocephus. Commie 

Au contraire, it is because that song is so good that it would be like Raid to commies.

Arg! You did It again! the only thing worse than Commies are the French!

What about fistful?

[Bigjake]

Nah.   Find the twangiest, most annoying country music you can, and lock the knob off at "11".....   

Country Boy Can Survive. Perfect for this.

That nice post about " Thank you America", and then you go and insult Bocephus. Commie 

Au contraire, it is because that song is so good that it would be like Raid to commies.

Arg! You did It again! the only thing worse than Commies are the French!

What about fistful?

Touche'   

[Tallpine]

The best thing they could have done was just ignore them.  Now that would have really hurt their feelings

Though ... I would really like to see a tree sitter's reaction when I sunk the 30" bar of my Stihl into the base of the tree that she was sitting in

A new sport - better than bungee jumping 

[Perd Hapley]

Might I suggest this selection as hippie deterrent? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH4-tOqLH94

[AmbulanceDriver]

Nah.   Find the twangiest, most annoying country music you can, and lock the knob off at "11".....   

Country Boy Can Survive. Perfect for this.

That nice post about " Thank you America", and then you go and insult Bocephus. Commie 


As for these tree dwelling granola crunchers,  I've got a waterballoon slingshot and need two volunteers...

Ooh!  OOH!  PICK ME!!!! PICK ME!!!!!  I love those things (waterballoon slingshots, not tree dwelling granola crunchers)

[Gowen]

The song I would play would be Merle Haggard "Walking on the fightin' side of me."

[xavier fremboe]

Nah.   Find the twangiest, most annoying country music you can, and lock the knob off at "11".....   

Country Boy Can Survive. Perfect for this.

That nice post about " Thank you America", and then you go and insult Bocephus. Commie 


As for these tree dwelling granola crunchers,  I've got a waterballoon slingshot and need two volunteers...

Ooh!  OOH!  PICK ME!!!! PICK ME!!!!!  I love those things (waterballoon slingshots, not tree dwelling granola crunchers)

Ahem.  The proper name for a water balloon slingshot operated by three people is a gazorch.  This is in no way endorsing the use of launching frozen water balloons, golf balls, empty beer bottles or full beer cans at tree hippies, no matter how well they lend themselves to the application.  Remember that the open end of the empty beer bottle will cause drift in that direction.  But don't do it.

[Bigjake]

Ahem.  The proper name for a water balloon slingshot operated by three people is a gazorch.  This is in no way endorsing the use of launching frozen water balloons, golf balls, empty beer bottles or full beer cans at tree hippies[/], no matter how well they lend themselves to the application.  Remember that the open end of the empty beer bottle will cause drift in that direction.  But don't do it.

Dude, I think you just coined a term for a new subspecies of Liberal!

Species: Homo Sapiens
Genus: Liberal
Family: Socialist
Order: Hippie
Subspecies: Tree Hippie.


(forgive my butchering of biological classification, but Garbage Muffin or whatever her name is doesn't deserve the brain power involved in a wiki search)

[Gowen]

I think I know of a good way to get them out of a tree, [chainsaw firing up]   I think I would have to only cut down 1 tree and the others will come down willingly.

[Boomhauer]

I think I know of a good way to get them out of a tree, [chainsaw firing up] grin  I think I would have to only cut down 1 tree and the others will come down willingly.

A chainsaw is kind of boring...blowing the tree down with C4, now that's logging!


Or, for more sportsmanship....tennis ball or golf ball cannon!

[xavier fremboe]

I think I know of a good way to get them out of a tree, [chainsaw firing up] grin  I think I would have to only cut down 1 tree and the others will come down willingly.

A chainsaw is kind of boring...blowing the tree down with C4, now that's logging!


Or, for more sportsmanship....tennis ball or golf ball cannon!

Another safety note.  If you use a spud gun, even though a shop towel gently folded makes an excellent sabot round with a golf ball with a spud gun (2" SCH 80 PVC) do not purge the chamber with oxygen.  It will increase the range to a quarter mile.  That is simply unsafe.

[roo_ster]

XF:

I, for one, appreciate your safety tips and have been taking notes. 

[wmenorr67]

Don't even need C-4.  Just wrap some det chord around the trunk and set it off.

[RocketMan]

We know that, wmenorr67, but the C4 is more aesthetically pleasing.
IOW, it makes more boom and smoke and stuff.

[MillCreek]

Xavier, I, too, appreciate the sage advice as to slingshots and spud guns.  The tip as to wind drift caused by the open mouth of the beer bottle will surely come in useful.

PS: I forgot to mention: having to eat nothing but Powerbars and water for an extended period would drive me out of my tree, too.