Article: Trafficking in Hot Trees

I don't think Unitarians believe in hell, so the members of Mount Vernon Unitarian Church are denied the satisfaction of hoping that the people who stole their tree will burn in the hellfire of eternal damnation.

It was March 2, a Friday, when a truck towing a trailer and carrying a wood chipper pulled up in broad daylight to a street behind the Fairfax County church. At least four men got out. They set up traffic cones and went about their business, methodically cutting down a 60-foot paulownia tree that towered over a memorial garden by the side of the sanctuary. When they were done, they loaded the wood onto their trailer and drove off.

Plenty of people saw them, but everyone assumed ...

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