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Old 08-15-2009, 02:56 PM
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Just off of Buerna Vista and Old Camp Road (next to entrance to Bridgeport at Lake Sumpter) there is an empty field with with a small hill on top of which sits a magnificent oak tree. Logistically it is across from the field where the buffalo roamed in Lake Sumpter Landing. My husband and I like to sit on the hill under the oak and watch the alligators in the lake since it is a peaceful setting. Evidentially there are other visitors after dark who have left behind approximately two dozen empty chewing tobacco cans as well as empty beer cans. Yesterday we noticed that someone was hacking a large gouge out of the oak tree causing a large wound so I called the Community Watch. The lady who answered the phone actually laughed when I told her about the vagrants hanging out after dark and trying to destroy a tree that is at least a 100 years old. She brushed me off and told me to call maintenance. They are completely useless.