HeyBub wrote:
> For fifteen years, this 200' wide power line property was a good
> neighbor. Had some small hills, a copse of trees every 100 yards or
> so. One could watch the hawks making a nest and see an occasional
> bunny hopping about (no doubt that's why the hawks chose the
> neighborhood).

> People rode their bikes, played softball, or just hiked or jogged
> down its length.

> Then, late last year, the power company came through and ground up
> all the trees. They didn't chop them down, they had a stump grinder
> gizmo on a big-ass boom that they raised up and turned the trees into
> flakes from the top down! Sterilized the field, they did.

> I'm a fuckin' STOCKHOLDER in Centerpoint (the power company). I
> called and raised more hell than the third monkey on Noah's gangplank
> while all this was in progress and was told the company was REQUIRED
> to cut down the trees by the Department of Homeland Security!

> Bunch lying slugs, you ask me. Not even Homeland Security thinks
> terrorists grow on trees!