And the Trees Didn't Even Do Anything Wrong (UPDATED)

 

Quick shoutout to the good people at @UniversalPics for trimming the trees that gave our picket line shade right before a 90+ degree week. pic.twitter.com/aZvvPYQ23i

— Chris Stephens (@ChrisStephensMD) July 17, 2023

So here's an image that got me hotter than July sun on blacktop: these studio sonsofbitches pruned the trees. Were they even their trees to prune? (Maybe not, it looks like they might have been the city's trees.) And is this even the time of year you would normally do that? (Yeah, I dunno about that, you guys.) 

Now, leave out the whole level of mental motherfuckery you would need to possess to even decide "I know what, let's just take a little bit of natural coolness away from the picketers as if that's going to make them not want to resolve this strike in a way that lets them afford to live in the town they work" or anywhere else and shit like that, but also says "and if the trees die, they die." 

Now I'm not arborist, I'm not, I know it. I had fig trees, and they weren't meant for my area of the northeast. They got wrapped but still didn't survive a deep freeze. My grape vines do alright I guess. But that there looks like deliberate and unseasonable butchery for dramatic effect.

They should leave drama to the artists and then pay them for it. And if they screwed with the city's trees trying to strike break, they ought to pay for that, too. That image of those trees is just stark stupid miser shit. 

UPDATES: Why looky here! Apparently, the city had nothing to do with the pruning mess, and that's an unfair practices violation in addition to the city investigation.  Looks like some FA is going to be followed with FO.

Good. 

UPDATE: They got fined all of $250 by the city?