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Article: Trafficking in Hot Trees
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 17, 2007
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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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