{"id":747,"date":"2006-02-27T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T17:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/arborcidal_maniac_speaks_after_thousands_perish.html"},"modified":"2006-02-27T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T17:21:18","slug":"arborcidal_mani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/arborcidal_mani.html","title":{"rendered":"Arborcidal Maniac Speaks After Thousands Perish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post follows up over the weekend about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/hatred_of_hydra.html\">horticidal-arborcidal maniac now in custody<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/64129.htm\">&#8220;Whacker Out of His Tree&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;All trees and nests must die and be controlled!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what a kooky shrub-drubber said when cops grilled him on some $24,000 in damage he allegedly caused by breaking tree branches and upending bushes in Union Square Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did it!&#8221; David Sasson, 34, of East 14th Street, boasted when cops caught him Thursday morning, as he was allegedly continuing his three-week spree. &#8220;I&#8217;ve done this to thousands of trees!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The alleged shrub schlub&#8217;s police statements were released yesterday, as a Manhattan judge ordered him to Bellevue.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post follows up over the weekend about the horticidal-arborcidal maniac now in custody &#8212; &#8220;Whacker Out of His Tree&#8221;: &#8220;All trees and nests must die and be controlled!&#8221; That&#8217;s what a kooky shrub-drubber said when cops grilled him on some $24,000 in damage he allegedly caused by breaking tree branches and upending bushes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}