UK’s iconic Sycamore Gap tree cut down by ‘vandals’ 

I think this is actually a SPECTACULAR idea. I seriously would advocate for this.

I agree. Perfect sentence.

Nothing will happen. Criminals don’t even go to jail

There exists a direct link between children (especially boys) living without their father in the family home and juvenile delinquency. This has been known about for decades. Yet society now actually encourages women to raise children by themselves and the welfare system financially rewards girls and young women who do so!

The UK Gov is softer on crime than a jumper knitted by your nan is.

I never saw the tree. Never heard about it But I saw the pictures before and the destruction and I cried. Pathos pathos pathos. Somethings hit home hard. The blowing up of the Bamayan Buddhas in Afghanistan. These markers are symobolic of beauty, history, nature, mortality. The boy who did this is an idiot. Ignorant. You want to punch him in the face but truthfully he deserves to be pitied. No idea what is of value.

I was brought up / have lived in north east all of life this is heart breaking.....this is part of my life .....

I’m absolutely gutted for northumberland.. I can’t even imagine how angry you must feel. It makes me sad that a lot of young people just want to destroy all of our heritage these days. As if it never existed.

The lack of punishment for this is also astounding, the kid has been let out on bail already and will likely not face full consequences as he is a child

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​@imsickofyou-pb2xt fr

You don't have statues in Scotland so I guess cutting down a tall tree will suffice to send the message

​@@Southeast_Asian_DevilNo they don't have any, apart from the William Wallace and Roberty Burns statue's?

Lol. Get a life!

@@frontenac5083 ​​⁠People like you don’t care about anything or anyone but theirselves and perhaps there family. Let’s hope that one day, some punk who has a hatred for our society and our beautiful countryside doesn’t extend such an act upon the neck of one of your loved ones. Perhaps you are that punk!

IT. IS. JUST. A. TREE. CAL. DOWN.

@@thefastcommenter7774 So how many other “just a tree” shall we just chop down randomly. Do you own anything? If you do, will you be happy for me to come and destroy it, especially when your insurance won’t cover the cost? You need to wise up, buck up and look after your country !

@@iant9461 As far as I know you aren’t the Lorax, you don’t speak on behalf of the trees. It’s just a tree yet you all are getting into a bunch about it. Grow up.

Though it was not a thing, rather a sentient silent witness of humans long gone and their often funny and now depraved ways. Sad.

"depraved ways"...??? What on earth are you talking about...? 🙄🙄🙄

Got no sentiment for what’s left of the rain forest in Africa then?

​@@_Ben4810 shot in the dark here, but perhaps the much darker irl stories the movie that made this tree nationally/internationally famous were based upon?

@@imafackinjunglisthow do those two situations correlate at all?

Most probably will do, but it will need protection from rodents until established.

Needs 24/7 security from now on

It's a Sycamore...... they're basically a weed. It should grow back as long as Deer or other animals don't eat off all the new shoots. Gonna take a while to get back to a decent size though...

Who cares what you claim it is, that's not the point in this!@@nickmaclachlan5178

@@nickmaclachlan5178 doesn’t matter how long it takes, as long it grows back.

Bit like that pair of fwats demolishing that Black Country pub t'other week, bit......

At least you opted from the proper age, nice one 👍 The creator of this post opted to lie or exaggerate about it's age

Could be arranged !!!!!!!

100% correct

We are extremely saddened here in Ireland too.

Snowflakes getting butt hurt over a tree.

​@@MavericksDrone After 800 years of Britain destroying Ireland?

I am extremely saddenened here in Hungary also. Never forget: evil has human face!

lol @@PaulM_aka_4c21

And for a 16 year old - who would not be able to drive - it is a long walk there with heavy cutting equipment. Must have been more than one person involved. If he didn't live very close by, then it would be a few hours hiking with a large chainsaw from the nearest large towns.

I was thinking that I'm sure an ordinary 16 would have been able to do, or indeed even get there with the equipment without help.

@@ganrimmonim it’s possible but it looks like a professional job

Very, very clean cut.

Thank you for your kind words ❤

You wrote a paragraph about a tree

looks better with no tree tbh

@@squawkmaster234Fr.

@@squawkmaster234 Yeah your in the minute minority their mate

@@SomeGuyWho.. Everything you own is just an object

Yea, my thoughts exactly

The 16 year old is a decoy for police while they hunt the true culprit

Someone has done it done it for internet clout. They probably went there with a team, drones etc. This was done for internet fame.

Come on guys - lets not go down the personal incredulity path. I know the British police aren't the greatest, but give them a chance to do their investigations and see what they say at the end.

@@AnyoneCanSeeor someone got fed up with the tourism and took a chainsaw to it. It does look pretty professional, not to say a 16 year old couldn’t be professional.. hey actually he needn’t have been arrested for the actual felling, it could have been a different offence related to the tree, like saying something offensive about it on social media… maybe he made a joke that it was time for the tree to “leave”

This species of tree can live for thousands of years easily and be completely healthy

that’s crazy sad to be honest rest in peace

Yes it was. A 16 yr old boy did it. Also, it's not that hard to cut down a tree....

It was done by a 16yo as was said. In a decent world, it would get the death penalty for what it did! But the scummy low-life oxygen thief will get away with it I bet!

Why can’t teenagers know how to use a chainsaw properly? Could have learned by family or helping around. Dangerous but doable. And they did arrest a 60 year old man too no? Are you gonna say an old man can’t work a chainsaw either?

​@@anglosaxon5874no he won't! I'd be surprised if he'll be sleeping well at night, after everyone learns whom this teen is!

@@carollxo1019 OOOhhh "no he won't". Chill out liberal! Bahhhaaa baaahaaa

It was more than a single tree it cant be replaced

I know right? Like why can't some people just appreciate the sentimental value in things? I guess not everyone's minds are able to comprehend those emotions for whatever reason, it'd be nice if the police make an example out of this dickhead by making him do community service with environmental stuff.

They cut it down _because_ they knew it was important, _because_ they knew it would cause harm and upset others.

Scotland cut down over 14 million trees in order to put up wind turbines , .

@@Tao_Tologyindeed, much like vandalising a Banksy or something. Just because they can, for no other good reason.

😂😂 it's a fucking tree how many trees do the government cut down a year and then this poor sod gets arrested 😂 they hate competition hey

Work of a psychopath

What colour was the tree???

​@@BarghestOnewhite 😂 racist basted it's a fucking tree get a grip the government cuts down how many a year 😂

​@@ajones747I think you need a dictionary

Hola...I remember ploughing up a lemon tree sapling on a farm in Zambia.....the big veggie patch was my job.....I was just clearing the whole area....whizzing around on my Yanmar tractor....showing off......trying to make a good impression on my new in-laws(!) I didn't know...I was ignorant......but, that became the local farmers joke.. any time the community got together. I never lived it down. Currently, (many, many years later)... I just need to trim a tree in front of my rented house......it's sprawling all over the car in the driveway...we have to crawl under it, to walk up the little path....but....there is a bird's nest in it!! (car roof covered in guano) So........ gonna have to wait until the chicks have flown!! It hurts me more than the tree. I hope that you have another tree that is still giving you lemons. Peace from Kaapstad (RSA)

Yeah but I’m still sorry about your lemon tree..

The police are still investigating, so they know there are others involved. And they won't reveal info of an ongoing investigation. Otherwise they will spook the real culprits.

@@HavingMySay 🤭🤣

I will be surprised if he's white knowing there are certain groups here in England who want to destroy our history! Invaded we are...!!!

@@HavingMySay This leaves me speechless! The special branch need to get to the root of this aSAP. Seriously, whomever is responsible for this Syca-no-more has disgusted me to the core!

Tree-mend-us

Yes our severe penalties of no Xbox for a month will really hit home. ... it's a tree. But I guess it's not sick anymore. ... to soon? 😂

​@@tomosa6880?

I have a reason why he shouldn't be punished ... the government cut down how many trees a year 😂 this poor kid

​@@tomosa6880 Ooh, edgy...

Wanker central in the comments 🙄

Fair enough but this tree wasn't diseased it was a healthy tree

Their is no way one 16 year old cut down this tree, it would take more than 1 person to do it.

Teen "I confess, it was I who cut down the apple tree" Judge: "Well thank goodness your not a liar... 3 years in a penal colony. What? Your not my son."

No! my generation would never have done anything so destructive and pointless. The problem is that the younger generation have not been taught 'right from wrong'. Their schools and teachers aren't even capable of imposing discipline. What a sad society.

​@@CricketEngland a 16 year old could if they had a little experience in cutting trees and chainsaws. It's fairly easy to do by hand at night when no one's around with a large quality hand saw

@@justinteehee4358if you think it’s that easy you give it a try then and see how hard it is… their is no way he did it on his own.

It's time to fight back

And The Government is that 16 year old boy

sad but true, quite sad, i saw this tree 30 years ago as a 10 year old kid, come from Australia to visit family and see that tree

@@Bran_RedmawHere here

Now only the wall of division stands to divide us

Exactly 👍🏻

Because it's from chainsaw.

I saw it was a simple cut from a long bar chain saw, so yes i think you are right, but their age matters not of who ACTUALLY did it, i expect the law serves younger people differently being less severe,he has been put up for this, may be.

Why are they blaming a "teen"? I smell a cover up!

This is obviously a job for special branch.

The question is "what is the felling of the tree a distraction from?". It is cut clean and level in one go, by a very large heavy duty electrical saw. Obviously not battery operated, either. There must have been a heavy petrol electricity generator, which would not have been loaded onto a large vehicle by one boy, one man and not by both, either. Even if one, the other or both claim to have felled it alone or together, they clearly could not have done so. I never believed a 16 year old kid did it, and nor do I believe a 60 year old man did it alone or with a boy to help. I believe this is a misgovernment hoax to distract from other things. What else should you be paying attention to? 🤔 THE heinous Online Safety Bill, perhaps? Which is less about protecting children (they could always have done that) and far more about preventing truths from circulating online. We live in a tyrannical corporatocracy - and everyone here is detracted by everything but. Or perhaps it was blocking fore and foive jee energy weapons from a clear path. They have been used by the militaries when turned up. It's TOWERS! CCTV ULEZ wouldn't work without them. They couldn't do half of what they intend to do without , could they? Why aren't they being taken down or disabled? Why aren't those installing and maintaining them being stopped??? Watch out for foive jee masts going up nearby disguised as trees. Newcastle has just erected TWO next to each other.

@@angr3819 Remember how reluctant they were to acknowledge groomer gangs?

grow a pair

You need to get laid

You need to get laid

It is a National Tragedy.

It’s a tree mate calm down

Damage to property can be hundred millions of Pounds

@@zolikingsthorpe7297 its a tree mate doubt it was worth more than a grand

@@zolikingsthorpe7297 hundred million for a tree have a laugh

​@@tommymeadows4591Time is worth more than money.

IT. IS. JUST. A. TREE. CAL. DOWN.

Their family? Great idea. Three generations of punishment.

The families had nothing to do with it just shame the person how done it

NO, the perpetrators should be charged and prosecuted for committing an act of Domestic Bio-Terrorism. This wasn't just some TikTok prank--it was a VERY. specific message being sent to the People of the UK and the rest of the Western World--that there are forces at work in the UK who are willing to do anything to destroy and eradicate Western Culture fro the face of the planet. WTFU. This wasn't a prank, any more than flying jets in to the WTC was a prank. It was a message. The people of the UK have a very bleak future ahead of them if they don't wake up, weed out these Anti-Western demons, and purge their island of these hateful, totalitarian forces in their cities, their government, and their educational institutions...

Named and shamed is a badge of honour, jail, jail for a long long time.. thats were they should go.

Greenie 911, false flag, let me guess more laws over people, more restrictions, stay in your habitat area, agenda 21... not falling for it.

Just go see a different tree they are all pretty much the same

Went about 6 years ago with my late girlfriend, will never go again now after this. The subhumans that did this need the same thing doing to them. An example needs to be set.

@@fluffycamo Probably the same thought as the idiot who cut it down. lame.

About time it seem

Exactly. I guess the same thing. Many are writing why. The answer is social media clout. This action screams so little twept thinking it will make him famous. And sadly it will.

Its a fucking tree 😂 how many trees do the government cut down each year 😂 you lot are mental

The issue with that claim being that it’s currently not on TikTok

The kid was probably paid to do it by someone else. I mean a 16 year old with a chainsaw???

@@TonklinFallen - Yeah, after learning about a landowner chopping down a 2000-year-old tree in Glastonbury recently which was initially blamed on vandals, I'm thinking this might be a "right to roam" situation now. It attracts a lot of tourists and whoever owns the land might want to get rid of them. So maybe they decided to cut it down in the night, pay a fine and people will stop coming. There are tons of cases of landowners trying to stop rights of way, blocking paths, building fences etc.

I agree, it is a display of evil

The really sad truth is that they probably did this to get noticed in some weird warped way; probably an ill conceived way of being famous for something. I honestly hope they get to whoever did this but, even if they do, I don’t expect they’ll be given more than a slap on the wrist and small fine.

Evil OR damaged. Maybe he proposed under the tree and was rejected. Life us complicated

@@user-hi2ss9ky9f or heartbroken beyond belief. So quick to judge without knowing motive

@@randomman69420Z you've never had your heart ripped out clearly

Maybe he live in the countryside and has felled many a tree in the last couple of years. It could easily be a 16yr old. But let's see.

You're welcome

If he had a bar that big he could of at least milled it up, would make a lovely table

Plus it was presumably done at night in relative darkness, which I'm assuming makes the feat even more impressive.

I thought the same but why would a professional do that? I’d expect someone like Mizzy to do it for a prank

Not going to happen. Zero consequences. They are already claiming to not even be sure if it was an "act of vandalism". You know like carving your name into it.

@@SalemikTUBE "Zero consequences." He's been arrested. Why are you shitpostong?

Why, he was just getting rid of an invasive species.

@@SalemikTUBE cretin

⁠@@emm_arrI understand what their saying though, It’s one thing being arrested but what’s he actually being charged for. It’s not vandalism because it’s not a form of properly, it’s an iconic part of nature. I personally think they should be named and shamed. That way these actions would have knock on affects to his social life. People wouldn’t want him working for their companies and he’d be forced to convince others he’s learnt and changed in to a more respectful manner.

So no trees should be felled then. have you wood in your house .

​@@melvynparkerson9984this isn't just any tree though is it?

I agree with the people who say that it looks too professional to have been cut down by a teenager on his own.

It was one person's actions. Maybe it's his parents that should be held accountable.

You'd be surprised. Ironically, this might be the most united England has been in 70 years. This senseless act is galvanising people. Our response to this act is going to be way more important, than the act itself.

Or cut off his oranges

I reckon several chav charver scumbag teens did this, he was one of them.

😂

​@@rainb1750what's Funny?

Some people just wanna watch the world burn

This is why we can’t have nice things 😢

@@dafuzzymonster yeah they really do!

Exactly, they all got used for looroll

My bullshxxt detector went off straight away. 🇬🇧

it looks that way even cut the wedge into it.looks like a pro job

Maybe a kid on an apprenticeship who recently got access to tools.

Cuts aren't pro cuts

Yep!

*HASAN CHOP!* 👳🏾

Sorry for your loss ! It’s a tree ?

@@tonywright8294 Yes it is an important iconic tree, loved by millions. Some people will go and enjoy a few cigarettes, have a few beers with them. Throw your cigarette butts on the ground and cans on their cans over the hedge. What is a tree to them.

How we respond will determine how lost our civilization is. The response to this need not be rash.

​@@tonywright8294why do you sound like the damn Once-ler 😭 you really must hate nature

​@@tonywright8294for some it's not just a tree. It's where people have scattered ashes, where people go to remember their loved ones.

Really? 16 isn't actually a child. A 16yr old boy is basically a young man, physically. Stop mollycoddling these gits or anyone else. Furthermore, it's the teens who are demonstrating the most antisocial and broken behaviour in this country right now. They've never been made to suffer the consequence of their actions, presumably due to adults with your pathetic way of looking at the world. Cutting down this tree Zombie knife slayings in London Crying victim at every opportunity Drug taking without recompense Fighting (breaking noses, etc) in classrooms in front of teachers who just sit there Online bullying Narcissism to the max Extreme entitlement Etc etc etc etc

I don't think he did it with an axe mate

@@CRich-ti5ws Who said anything about an axe?

@@Tao_Tology he assumed you must mean with an axe because it's obvious a 16yr old male can happily use a chainsaw if slightly familiar.

@@gordonthomson7533 They are saying it was a 16 year old so they don't have to give a description. Get it?

My thoughts exactly. A sycamore sap can grow upto 10 feet in its first year. I pray it will live on and grow into another healthy tree!

​@@CarrotCrunchingWabbit never visited have you ?

I'm surprised the little s**t didn't pour acid on the remaining stump.

Its like is being grown at the University of British Columbia, from cuttings taken in 1976. It will be a while, though, before it is as big as the one that was mindlessly felled.

A travelling teenager perhaps.

Yea, thats what i wondered... 😢

A chainsaw is only a couple hundred dollars. It's not that difficult, lol.

@@leaf2180 The UK's currency is not dollars. In any case, what may be a couple of hundred dollars where you live, isn't necessarily of an equivalent value/price in the UK.

not a tree that size, and that is a professional job, and was already sprayed. @@Ian1-ct9pd

The plot thickens.

I think your logic is warped. People take pride in their local history.

​@@gregnewbrook7107 I agree and hope you're wright it just seems very suspicious, I've never seen a 16 year old with a chainsaw

And now there will be more tourists than ever. These idiots deserve all that’s coming to them. Can’t fix stupid!

Well said bro - Sheffield was decimated for 5g! Wish people had the same passion for the devastation of our high st / communities etc.

The scotish snp party cut down millions of trees

Yep. Some (not me, I don’t want any trouble now…) might interpret this as social commentary about a lack of concern regarding other trees, for example HS2 decimated acres of ancient native woodland…. Either that or something else 🤷‍♂️ It’s probably a Banksy or something

Sad act of vandalism. But how many trees have been destroyed to build HS 2 . Vandalism on a mass scale by our government

I agree. One day he will grows up he will come to realise what it means to be so utterly heart wrenched by the loss of something sacred and beloved to millions of people and how heartless and cruel taking it away in a minute of a senseless act from everybody who holds it dear can be and will have that on his conscious. If he does have a conscious. This is so so sad

Nah this is some racial attack against white folk i think.

People

They won't show the colour of his face.

yes no father the usual bull sh--e ,, or a family of 26 siblings

cut some stuff off him like they do in saudi arabia

yes and send the fools to saudi ,,, if you get a chance google the images of the beautiful tree ,also look at the daily record they have done some nice features of the tree with lighting but all lost now what a bloddy shame im so sad about this , i have a big beach tree in my front garden in Mullingar ireland and i absolutly love it and am so proud to be its neighbour as im only here 26 years and id say the tree is like 90 years or more its so majestic , im so sad for this beautiful tree what a loss, I hope they can get a young sapling in there and get it growing as soon as possible

Clearly he does have emotional and behavioural difficulties. No well adjusted person would do this.

Saudi is barbaric. Wanting a person mutilated is worse than the idiot vandal.

He has not been charged yet .

If he's a TikToker, I would roast every TikTok star because of their broccoli hairstyle and that kid's bone structure face that looks almost like a ugly 30 year old muscled adult. What a joke lol

it's not a teenager, probably an immigrant