In the English city of Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk County, a mysterious intruder has appeared, whose victims have already become eight 200-year-old trees protected by law. An unknown individual drills holes in the trunks and pours poison there. Law enforcers speculate that the poisonous substance can destroy centuries-old trees, and this is probably exactly what the unusual criminal is seeking.
Local Police Officer Graham Plant says:
We took samples of the liquid poured into the tree trunks and laboratory tests showed it to be a potent, continuous herbicide. It seems that the intruder (I would even say, the criminal, because the trees are also alive) doing this knows perfectly well what he is doing. It is a real mystery to us why someone needed to destroy historical trees. Whatever the motives of this person, he must be stopped at all costs. We promise to do our best to protect these age-old giants from intruders.
Several horse chestnuts, beeches and elms are reported to have been damaged in this way. Residents of the house, on the territory of which the protected trees are located, have pledged £ 700 to anyone who will help catch the criminal. If this person is actually arrested, he will have to pay £ 6,000 for each tree, plus the cost of planting new ones. Many Britons even believe that such a barbarian should be punished even more severely, that is, isolated from society …
It is noteworthy that most of the damaged trees were once hanged - at one time they were used here for hanging convicts. Maybe a mysterious individual wants to get rid of these age-old witnesses of human crime for this very reason? In this case, his actions seem even more mysterious, almost mystical - but does a person do all this? Here is such a terrible secret shrouded by someone poisoned age-old giants - once hanging trees in Norfork …
Daniil Myslinsky