The Wrong Kind of Relic Hunting UPDATED

Valley Ranger · Nov 30, 2011

Update - Not stolen after all:
http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/...e_Stolen_From_Private_Property_134753768.html

Thieves have stolen Stonewall Jackson's prayer oak:

http://www.nbc29.com/story/16149876/larceny-of-historic-oak-tree-in-augusta-county

Pray they get caught.

ivan salis · Nov 30, 2011

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may a pox be upon them , till it tis returned to its proper place.

RW · Nov 30, 2011

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How does one steal an oak tree?

ivan salis · Nov 30, 2011

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with a truck and lots of help --at 350 years old it would be big * (it had been knocked over (killed) by a storm) but even if the crooks were seen moving it -- no one would think anything , most likely if seen the folks would figger it was being removed to the craft shop where items were to be made from it to help fund the wounded warrior project --something old stonewall himself would have been proud of being the religious and honorible sort of man that he was -- I just hope it it can be recovered and was not cut up and sold for firewood / BBQ wood being it was oak.

Valley Ranger · Nov 30, 2011

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ivan salis said:
with a truck and lots of help --at 350 years old it would be big * (it had been knocked over (killed) by a storm) but even if the crooks were seen moving it -- no one would think anything , most likely if seen the folks would figger it was being removed to the craft shop where items were to be made from it to help fund the wounded warrior project --something old stonewall himself would have been proud of being the religious and honorible sort of man that he was -- I just hope it it can be recovered and was not cut up and sold for firewood / BBQ wood being it was oak.

I can just imagine some good ole boy warming his feet by a log fire as I type this. Oh, perish the thought!

BARKER · Nov 30, 2011

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They should find them and hang them from it. !!!!! PEACE:RONB It belongs to the People, NOT those theives. !!!! Hang em. !!! :icon_pirat:

StoneWall "wood" appreciate it for sure. !!! That ticks me off.

oldcoon · Nov 30, 2011

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The tree was not stolen. Its been returned.

Valley Ranger · Nov 30, 2011

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oldcoon said:
The tree was not stolen. Its been returned.

Thanks OC. I was not aware. Here's the update:

http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/...e_Stolen_From_Private_Property_134753768.html

RW · Dec 2, 2011

Well that is good news. But what am I going to do with all of these Stonewall Bookends I made to sell on eBay?

BARKER · Dec 2, 2011

RW said:
Well that is good news. But what am I going to do with all of these Stonewall Bookends I made to sell on eBay?

Hi RW; Read A Lot. !!! :laughing9:

PEACE:RONB

BARKER · Dec 2, 2011

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oldcoon said:
The tree was not stolen. Its been returned.

Hi Folks; Thank God is right. That ain't funny. !!! I think if it had been every Counrty Boy and Cajun from here to Pluto wold have been "HUNTING" for that one. Lord, I would NOT want to be the ones who took it. I hear that Country Justice is swift for sure. !!!! It would serve em right. Heck, I'd buy the ammo and the beer for the party afterwards. !!! PEACE:RONB :headbang: