Auburn:Toomer's Corner Oaks Poisoned

Ask Cecil Newton.

 

Kinda redundant don't you think. :hihi:

 

I have two thoughts about all of this.

First, this is an attack on our southern culture and qualifies as a terrorist attack. I don't see much difference between That scumbag getting chemicals that you can't get at Lowes or Home Depot. It's worse than Tim McVeigh getting all those huge amounts of fertilizer because students pass by there every day. someone's three year old granddaughter could have dropped a candy on the ground and then picked it up and ate it. Whats the difference between that form of agent orange and anthrax spores or low level radiation. It was a chamical attack by a terrorist as far as I'm concerned.

Second, I really don't see this criminal as representative of the Alabama fan base at all. Intense rivalry between SEC schools has existed for over 100 years, and this has never happened before. It was about a football rivalry as much as forcible rape is about sexual pleasure.

There's just no connection there between this terrorist act and a football rivalry.

 

i could not disagree more.

and im sure the families of the 168 people who died, including the nineteen children, will agree with me. or the almost 700 people injured. or the countless rescue personnel who had the living nightmare of pulling victims out of the rubble.

equating this to the okc bombing is way off base.

 

You're right Okie...I was trying to compare the fact that Tim McVeigh procured fertilizer that anyone could purchase "over the counter" while that herbicide chemical is not as readily available to the general public.

I should have stated my thoughts better.

 

even then, pure ammonium nitrate fertilizer in massive amounts are not available "over the counter". if i remember right, mcveigh had to go to a farm coop store to get that. which is pretty much the same kind of deal as what you describe.

 

Was Bama the only school that ESPN portrayed in their commercials this season (i.e. couple of months ago) that highlighted the overly passionate fans of college football? Or did they have rotating commercials with fans from other schools?

If anyone has a link to those ESPN (Bama) commercials, please provide. I recall a portion of one but not sure if there were others. It's really sad that a nutjob took his passion to the extreme.

 

It's not like you need a prescription for the herbicide, but you do have to be a forester or horticultural architect or something. That criminal had to have help getting the stuff according to my friend who is a graduate of AU's forestry program.

He also said that that stuff is soil activated and will spread like crazy far beyond where the affected oak trees were.

 

Don't know if this is true because I read it on a message board but it said enough was used to kill ten acres of trees and it will remain active for seven years

 

I respect your posts a lot Steve - but I must be missing something on this one because I can't relate OK City to Toomers Corner at all.

On your second point in the real world your likely correct, but in the blog-o-spere its to early to let the Alabama Lumberjacks of the hook.

Just like we are not ready to let Daddy Wareagle Bucks of the hook