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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on September 22, 2008, 12:10:54 PM
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Berkeley's infamous tree-sitters have been hit with a rude surprise since they came down to earth: Judges are socking them with thousands of dollars in fines and legal fees.
Ironically, much of the money - which could total more than $10,000 per sitter - is going straight to the University of California, the very institution the tree-sitters were protesting as they tried to save a grove of trees outside Memorial Stadium.
"It's really vindictive," said an attorney for some the sitters, Dennis Cunningham. "They don't have this kind of money."
Maybe, but university lawyer Michael Goldstein isn't making any apologies.
"We've asked the judge to throw the book at them," Goldstein said flatly.
UC Berkeley estimates it spent more than $800,000 on police and other security measures during the 22 months sitters were up in the trees. The university spent $40,000 alone on the scaffolding that went up around the final tree during the last day of the protest this month.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/21/BAUB131HLG.DTL
Wonder how long it will take to pay that off armed only with a degree in womyns studies? :-)
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$10,000
/ $25.00 (the maximum monthly payment a DUmmy can scrape together working 25 hours a week at McDonalds, after factoring in bus fare and pot/Cheetos expenses)
= 400 months or, 33 years, 4 months, assuming (a HUGH assumption, I know) that the DUmmy doesn't fall behind in payments, and start accruing interest.
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$10,000
/ $25.00 (the maximum monthly payment a DUmmy can scrape together working 25 hours a week at McDonalds, after factoring in bus fare and pot/Cheetos expenses)
= 400 months or, 33 years, 4 months, assuming (a HUGH assumption, I know) that the DUmmy doesn't fall behind in payments, and start accruing interest.
:lmao:
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UC Berzerkley taught'em to be activist but apparently didn't like it when the moonbats came home to roost. :tongue: :rotf:
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UC Berzerkley taught'em to be activist but apparently didn't like it when the moonbats came home to roost. :tongue: :rotf:
Oh, now that was a fowl joke. :-)
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I pity the tree who has to put up with them wacko treehugging freaks.