EVIL TREES

Curiouser and curiouser. Check out these recent news items:



Fallen Christmas tree hurts four in Prague (Dec. 6, 2003)



PRAGUE (Reuters) - A 31-metre (100 feet) tall Christmas tree has crashed to the ground during a windstorm at a market filled with holiday shoppers in Prague's ancient Old Town Square injuring four people.



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GreenTuna's Tree Takes a Header (Dec. 19th, 2003)

The Tuna family was saddened to find their Christmas Tree splayed all over the living room floor.

"I didn't do it!!!" TinyTuna exclaimed multiple times.

The tree was righted several days later after some cussing, crying, and grumbling.



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Downtown Christmas tree comes down early

By Suzanne Colonna -- MPG Newspapers



PLYMOUTH (Dec. 20) - It was beginning to look a lot like Christmas, until high winds and rain Wednesday night claimed the town's Christmas tree for the second time this year.



"It snapped right at the base," parks, forestry, recreation and cemetery superintendent Ted Bubbins said Friday.

Bubbins said the tree department got a call Wednesday night around 8:30 p.m. that the tree was on the ground along North Street.



Coincidence? I think not. We'd better start searching out the Tannenbaums of mass-destruction. And while we're at it, we should call the Crayola people so they can come up with an appropriate National Security Advisory color. Poisonous Pine? Falling Fir 'n Flesh? Destructive Douglas Drab? Sabotage Spruce Sienna?

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