Originally posted by AppleOnYa:
I'm sorry but until I actually SEE a clip or hear a soundbite of the man actually saying this, I refuse to believe it's true. While he did get a bit anal about saving the tree...I'm sure he never intended for, and never expected the girl to die.
And cannot believe that once she DID die, her own uncle would be so crass, so unfeeling as to compare her life to that of a tree.
In fact, I'm beginning to wonder if much of the story is true....
Neal Pulcawer has, as far as I know, one of the finest reputations for journalistic integrity in the world.
He won the "Journalist Of The Year" award in 2004 from the National Asociation of Journalistic Persiflage, and received the prestigious Art Buchwald/H.L. Mencken Memorial Award in 2003, presented by the Associaton & Spurious Society for Homeland Editorial Superiority"
Originally posted by J Geoff:
I was almost believing this until the typos, and, the fact that they didn't use a rescue helicopter... :p 
You too?
A few typos can happen to anyone.
I guess they couldn't use a helicpter because all of the branches or something.
You know those "stately old elms"....
