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November 12, 2007
Berkeley Tree-Sitter Falls, Breaks 2 Limbs
A protester broke his arm and leg after plunging at least 30 feet Sunday night while trying to exit a tree in an oak grove that the University of California at Berkeley plans to raze, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
Nathaniel Hill, 24, mistakenly thought he was connected to a cable when he stepped from his perch to see his father, who had stopped by to visit. Mr. Hill was among a group of protesters who are living in the trees in hopes of blocking the university from felling them to make way for a $125-million athletics center. He is not the first protester to take a tumble; a woman broke her wrists in a fall earlier this year.
The university has been sued over the planned tree-cutting, and a court decision is anticipated as early as this week.
Dan Mogulof, a university spokesman, said Mr. Hill’s accident was “very regrettable but to state the obvious, completely avoidable.” —Don Troop
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The headline (perhaps intentionally) did not say whether the tree-sitter broke his own limbs or the tree’s. Thank you for clarifying in the opening sentence.
— CU Alum Nov 12, 11:16 PM #
Sounds like the young man suffered from premature ejection, which can happen when your Dad shows up unexpectedly. Quite embarrassing.
— S. Britchky Nov 13, 03:29 AM #
Forget the hippy. Is the tree ok?
— Jones2 Nov 13, 04:03 AM #
Meh…Just burn the tree’s down with the tree hugging hippies in them, solve two problems at the same time.
— doriangrey Nov 13, 10:45 AM #
His dad just “stopped by”? He didn’t say – I don’t pay for college so you can do this crap! Get out of the tree you hippie moron!?
— woodman Nov 13, 11:17 AM #
Getting hurt to save oak trees? That’s not even a rare tree. Go camp in a bog or something.
— Chip Nov 13, 11:29 AM #
Isn’t he a little old to be climbing trees? At 24, he better have his doctorate by now. When are these hippies going to grow up?
— BW Nov 13, 11:37 AM #
For the the hippie-haters in the crowd who rejoice in the suffering of others, trees do have functions aside from being places to hang nooses.
— coal_train Nov 13, 12:15 PM #
coal_train:
Obviously they have more uses…. dog toilets, carbon-credits, nailing posters to… or, in your case, barking up the wrong one.
— practical_joe Nov 13, 12:27 PM #
If a tree-hugger falls in a forest…
— beefeater Nov 13, 12:41 PM #
How do you get a tree-hugger down from a tree? Wave to him.
— beefeater Nov 13, 12:46 PM #
...re-pave paradise, put up a wealthy donor’s wishes.
— marci Nov 13, 02:39 PM #
Since the injury was suffered on the job, can he apply for disability insurance?
— Lawrence S. Lerner Nov 13, 03:29 PM #
CU Alum:
The San Jose Mercury News did report this as “breaking news.”
— ironmite Nov 13, 03:43 PM #
As a Cal alum and former Bear athlete, I salute the tree for giving the kid the boot, butt-good.
— Sol Frank Nov 13, 03:45 PM #
Just goes to show you, my fellow baby boomers: they don’t make protests (not to mention protesters) like they used to!
— Phil Schwartz Nov 13, 03:53 PM #
trees 2, hippies 0
— button Nov 13, 04:24 PM #
Perhaps he should have attended an institution of LOWER education.
— Rob Nov 13, 05:28 PM #
Look Dad no hands!
— Jack Bauer Nov 13, 05:30 PM #
Was he too much to the port side of the tree?
Or was it maybe just too much port?
Whatever—since the poor freebooter fell through the poop deck the starboard side is having a party—yar.
— Fred Nov 13, 05:44 PM #
Hippies are extinct. They all left campus by 1975. At best, this guy is a tree-hugger.
— AMD Nov 13, 07:33 PM #
Aren’t the tree huggers supposed to like hug the tree?
— PA Nov 13, 07:56 PM #
Ironically, the first planned athletic event in the planned new sports center is Tree Climbing!
— martin wakesberg Nov 13, 08:29 PM #
I do hope that the police also fined the guy $1000 dollars and threw his ass in jail for trespassing as the judge said they could – now that would be funny!
— chris Nov 14, 01:41 AM #
This just in: Nut falls from tree, cracks shell!
Today, a Berkeley student; Al Mond, fell 30 feet from a tree, and we all laughed, laughed, laughed. . .
Did I mention we laughed?
— Lou Briccant Nov 14, 01:11 PM #
If these comments represent the higher ed community, then the claims that we are all liberal are certainly incorrect.
— Betty Nov 15, 09:15 AM #
I say cut the tree down and make this tree hugging fool engrave the plaque out of the wood to commemorate the new building. I’ll bet this idiot uses toilet paper too. What a hippiecrit!
— Jason Nov 15, 09:11 PM #
The school was raising money a couple of years ago to buy these trees and now they’re cutting them down for what a friggin 5 million workout facility.
— Anna Nov 29, 09:15 PM #