Chainsaw-wielding vandals cut down trees at Trump-run golf course

[mfcorey1]

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — President Donald Trump ran up a steep security tab in New York City before taking office in January.

Now, a Bronx golf course operated by the Trump Organization might be in need of a little more protection.

Two men with a chainsaw jumped over an 8-foot-high fence along the 15th hole of Trump Links at Ferry Point in New York and started toppling trees on Tuesday morning, CBS New York reported.

Four trees were taken down, each between 20 and 30 feet tall. The course manager said this isn't the first time it's happened.

Cornelius Hodges, who lives a couple of doors down on Robinson Avenue, has a theory.

"Well, at least you can see the golf course better, you know. It wouldn't block your view. That's the only thing I can understand," he said.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chainsaw-wielding-vandals-cut-down-trees-at-trump-run-golf-course/ar-BBB1vkr?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=mailsignout

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

1. Sorry

For the trees.

[dalton99a]

2. +1

[canetoad]

11. Yep

Not their fault.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. That is wrong, and if they catch the guys

they should be punished.

[rzemanfl]

20. Look at the picture. Would vandals bother to cut the stump so close to the ground?

No, they would cut it where it was easiest to manage the saw. This is a Drumpf lie in my humble opinion. Chain saws are very noisy. No one saw them cut down four trees?

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. Close to the ground?

Doesn't look close to me.

http://abc7ny.com/news/4-trees-illegally-cut-down-at-trump-golf-links-in-bronx/1978375/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[rzemanfl]

27. The CBS picture showed no such thing. This picture is what I would expect.

I may have mistaken a sand trap for stumps. This doesn't mean I believe a word about anything Trump.

[AngryAmish]

4. As a rule golf courses should have few if any trees.

Check out how much better Oakmont looks nowadays.

[Thor_MN]

6. Maybe in other places... In Minnesota, golf courses have trees,

Not in the fairways, obviously, but you would be hard pressed to find a treeless course any where that I have been.

[AngryAmish]

13. Should not does.

Trees interfere with playing corridors and harm turf growth plus use incredible amounts of water. Pine Valley has removed hundreds if not thousands in the last year with spectacular results.

[Thor_MN]

18. Playing corridors should have trees to divide one hole from the next.

I prefer to have some cover from shanks and slices coming at me from every direction.

Who waters trees on a golf course? If one wants to play in a desert, one can travel to a desert to play golf.

[Freethinker65]

5. Not good

[Thomas Hurt]

7. damn shame...........about the trees.

[oasis]

8. Cheap assholes should hire more security.

They can always up the membership fee of the oligarchs who golf there.

[Adsos Letter]

9. Not helpful.

[Kittycow]

10. Bad form.

[Sedona]

12. Let's brainstorm better ways to vandalize a golf course

[4139]

17. Dye their beer pink?

[Doc_Technical]

23. Toss a Baby Ruth candy bar in the swimming pool?

[4139]

14. Beyond not helpful.... vandalism happened in northern Virginia a month ago

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Trump-National-Golf-Club-Vandalized-Course-Spray-Painted-417994353.html%3Famp%3Dy

All violence, all vandalism undermines real protest

[rzemanfl]

21. Spray painted grass. The horror of it leaves me devastated. Those poor golfers!!! n/t

[A-Schwarzenegger]

15. Wow, stupid motherfuckers.

[rzemanfl]

16. Poor trees. n/t

[underpants]

19. There's a golf course in the Bronx?

[Brother Buzz]

22. There's a holdup in the Bronx

There's a holdup in the Bronx,
Brooklyn's broken out in fights;
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
That's backed up to Jackson Heights;
There's a Scout troop short a child,
Khrushchev's due at Idlewild ...

[rzemanfl]

24. Bravo! n/t

[Vinca]

26. While I'm sad for the fate of the trees, there is some justice to this.

Trump has decided to open our national parks to the logging industry (and oil, gas, mining, etc.). Payback's a bitch.

[Zoonart]

28. Not in favor

of sacrificing a living organism to combat the living dead. How about spray painting some glof carts or even burning the golf carts. Make the fat bastards of the world, at least take a walk.