“Really officer, the tree just jumped out in front of me!”
Posted by Rich...! under Uncategorized on May 20 2007 at 9:42 AMI spotted this in Cape Town the other day (where else?). It took me a few seconds to register the absurdity of it all. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for saving the tree, but what’s with the gimpy little sliver of road on the tree’s left? I mean really, why bother?
Ah, you gotta love the Mother City, my only guess is that the work was done on a Friday afternoon…!
May 20th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Shuwa …Its a Cape Town thing… trees and moun – ten’s take priority, over man made things like roads… used to be one near my house in Rondebosh except they managed to get that one right in the centre of the road..
May 20th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Rich, you got conned. It’s a mushroom tree. They pop up overnight – particularly if there’s lightnin’. Now if you’d been there just a few hours earlier, it woulda been asphalt as usual.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Nee man. This is a traffis spoed cop what is only disguised to looks lyke a boom
May 20th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
That space must be the skateboard lane …
May 20th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Next time I’m in CT, I’ll cut it down.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:48 am
Maybe it’s a triffid?
May 21st, 2007 at 1:43 pm
There’s an entire avenue of them outside the Nelson’s Eye restaurant. Stops crappy parallel parkers from reversing into your car and absorbs carbon dioxide, just look out for the squirrel shit.
May 29th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Yea, the series in Hof street is great. It’s like having your private public parking, sortof.
May 29th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Hey, i live around the coner where you spotted the tree,
that’s a lengendery tree, the council tried to cut it down a few times but the community has spoken up for the tree,
its situated in woodstock , right?
Nice 1 bru, for spotting and posting our tree in JO’BLOG
May 30th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Hey Yasser, Yup, it’s in Woodstock. V rad that the community fought for the tree, rad, but bizarre…!