Is it OK to walk off with tree branches under my arm?

**DaveVman** · 8th May 2020, 06:38 PM

Is it OK if, while walking the dog in the council park, some eucalyptus branches climb into my arms and levitate across the park into my car boot?
A branch fell down a few months ago. It's finally been cut into 2m lengths and thrown into the long grass. They're approx as thick as your wrist. Quite heavy wood. I have a couple of ideas I could do with them, depending if any borer have got to them yet.
If it is not OK - would it be OK if I do it in a pre-dawn raid and no one sees me? I mean, if no one sees me - then it never happened. Did it?

Then again it is a long walk across the park to the car park.

Or maybe I do it right in the middle of the day. If I get stopped I can claim ignorance that way. What do you think?

**BobL** · 8th May 2020, 06:45 PM

It put on some decent work clothes and use a barrow - that way you might look like you are "official"

I'd do it - except my drive has a huge pile of wood on it that has not been touched for 10 years.

**Cgcc** · 8th May 2020, 06:55 PM

Yep just put on a high vis vest and look bored.

**DaveVman** · 8th May 2020, 07:06 PM

Yes great idea. Sadly I don't have a ute. Only a sedan. Otherwise I could easily look the part.

**Cgcc** · 8th May 2020, 07:32 PM

Just shake your head while you load up like you're thinking, "I can't believe they didn't have a vehicle for this..."

**Simplicity** · 8th May 2020, 07:52 PM

If anybody asks your a tree inspection scientist from the government contacting tree science review reports concerning the state and straightness of local eucalyptus speciesism.
Obviously this one needs some research,(the branch I mean lol not me)

Cheers Matt.

**Pagie** · 8th May 2020, 07:57 PM

Just make it very visable. Hyvis vest and a wheelbarrow or a trolly.

**poundy** · 9th May 2020, 09:36 AM

simply suggest that Tito here likes to fetch, and he chose this one so I'm obliging him by taking it home with us

**rustynail** · 9th May 2020, 10:37 AM

A fellow school boy had the bright idea to steal a TV van and rock up to the Hornsby store and advise that there was a recall on one particular brand of TV's. Said models were removed, loaded, a receipt issued and off they went. Arrested the next day.
Just fall over the branch and take it into your custody as evidence for your impending law suit.

**elanjacobs** · 10th May 2020, 01:00 PM

Yep, hide in plain sight.

A plain white van, hard hat and hi-vis vest is basically a free pass to do anything you like.

**doug3030** · 10th May 2020, 01:23 PM

Why should you not just take it?

would they stop you picking up litter or dog $h!t in the park?

**LanceC** · 10th May 2020, 01:47 PM

If it were a manicured park where the debris would be removed anyway by council, I would just take it. If it’s a nature reserve however, I would be more inclined to leave it.

My rule of thumb is that if it’s ok for me to do, then I should expect everyone else to do it too. Now if everyone did it, would the effects be detrimental.

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