Originally Posted by joldnol (Post 1070954)

how so?

Originally Posted by joldnol (Post 1070956)

The sheriff has dropped the investigation....seems to be a pass to me. 50 k is not chump change.

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter (Post 1070952)

That is just so much BS!

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1070938)

I don't understand that part. Usually you and I are on the same page, but that puzzles me.

I was struck again by the fact that so many think the whole village of Lake Miona are " in on it". I think that a lot are as sure as those who don't live there as to who did it, like most of us are sure who did it, but we have so many loud motor sounds going on in our neighborhood with edgers and blowers and trimmers, unless you were looking at something, you wouldn't know a tree was being cut on. You have to go to sumterpa.com to look at the map to see that those trees were on a little Island behind the properties.

I am just thinking it unjust to blame other innocent people for covering up something they had no real knowledge of.

And the part I am reading on the online news of people blaming people for a cover-up who live in a larger home who they think are the "monied rich" is REALLY unfair.

Originally Posted by manaboutown (Post 1071029)

GG, what I was attempting to convey was that a meaningful reward needs to be offered. The 'golf for life at the CC's' was a feeble attempt at humor.

It seems to me likely that several folks were complicit in this; even if initiated by one person it was a cooperative project at minimum through post if not prior knowledge . Now who would risk doing such a thing other than those who would benefit from it?

I doubt some looney tune thought to himself, "Just for the heck of it I'll just go cut down that stand of oak trees to improve the view of the lake from those houses over there."

Furthermore, how could it possibly have gone unnoticed by those in the area, especially those whose lake views were obstructed?

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1071032)

What you think seems valid to me and as best as I can figure out there is only a few homes whose lake views were obstructed. Now they are obstructed again.

Originally Posted by manaboutown (Post 1071035)

Good! If it was up to me I would have planted even larger trees and more of them right where the trees had been cut down.

Originally Posted by Polar Bear (Post 1071037)

I agree with your sentiment, but you would have found it very difficult and expensive...almost impossible...to plant trees larger than those cut down.

Originally Posted by manaboutown (Post 1071042)

I know. I was expressing my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Challenger (Post 1076422)

About two weeks since the last post here. Sometimes rumors are useful. Although I am not politically involved in TV or Sumter County, I find it not surprising that a rumor is circulating that the tree cutter is a person with " powerful political" ties.

Whoever , we need to keep the pressure on our elected reps to up the ante and increase the reward to at least $10,000 or more.

Originally Posted by janmcn (Post 1076440)

Does the rumor offer any clue as to why a person with "powerful political" ties would want these trees removed?