Poisoning trees to make billboards easier to see

[koalabear]

Robert J. Barnhart was a crew chief for a billboard company, and a soldier in a war on trees.

Trees were the enemy if they spoiled the view of a billboard. On days of an attack, Barnhart, 27, would arrive by dawn at Lamar Advertising Co. in Tallahassee, Fla. After removing the magnetic Lamar logo from a company truck, he would set forth with a machete, a hospital mask and a container of what he described as a "pretty gnarly" herbicide.

Barnhart claims he was fired by Lamar Advertising in August 2011 when he refused to continue poisoning trees that blocked the view of Lamar billboards. He has been granted immunity in a criminal investigation, and has sued over loss of his job.

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_n...soning-trees-to-make-billboards-easier-to-see

 

[Johnny_Ray_Wilson]

Too bad no scientist have created the organic billboard. We could replant the ones we kill.

 

[koalabear]

They are the main cause of global warming.

 

[semen4her]

They are the main cause of global warming.

You are the main cause of global boring.

 

[Image]

Do people really base choices on billboard advertising anyway? The billboards are the things that should be cut down...

 

[semen4her]

Trees don't pay taxes.

 

[Johnny_Ray_Wilson]

Do people really base choices on billboard advertising anyway? The billboards are the things that should be cut down...

Right. The only billboards that should be allowed are the ones showing 1/2 naked women.

 

[about_average]

A few years ago a law/regulation was passed that allows trees to be removed within 500' either direction of billboards.
Guess what the minimum allowable distance (set in the same regulation) is between billboards.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Image]

So much for the republican mantra, "We can always trust the American Corporation To do the Right Thing. Regulation impedes Business".

 

[Frizzle_Fry]

prob just got tired of the eye sore...