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Nutso to Cops: Trees Deserved It!
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Jacob Dobkin
Published Feb 25, 2006
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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Published Feb 25, 2006
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, New York Post, for reporting the memorable words of the Union Square Tree Mangler. They go a long way to explaining David Sasson's motivation for doing $25,000 worth of damage to the trees and shrubbery in the park. The only this we enjoyed more than the quote was the various monikers the editors came up with for the herbicidal maniac:
WHACKER
Kooky shrub-drubber
Shrub schlub
ANTI-PLANT RAMPAGER
WORM IN THE GARDEN
Come on, New York Daily News editors-- you guys are sleeping on this story! And to our dear readers-- can you come up with anything better than the Post?
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Jake Dobkin co-founded Gothamist with Jen Chung. In 2019, Jake released Ask a Native New Yorker, a book based on his Gothamist advice column.
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