An argument between neighbors in South Yorkshire, England, over birds nesting in a tree led to this poor conifer's buzzcut. The pic has since gone viral:
A tree cleaved in half has become an attraction in a residential part of South Yorkshire after a dispute between neighbours.
Bharat Mistry said he and his family were “gutted” when their next-door neighbours asked tree surgeons to cut down half the branches of a 5 metre conifer tree that had stood in his garden in the Sheffield suburb of Waterthorpe for 25 years.
He said: “We were absolutely distraught. We pleaded and pleaded with them not to do it, but their mind was made up. That tree was coming down.”
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The picture went viral after it was anonymously sent in to Jeremy Vine’s Channel 5 TV show, and it has been turned into memes on social media, prompting visits from curious people.
Mistry’s daughter said the family had become “Instagram famous without meaning to”.
Image: Bharat Mistry/Matthew Lofthouse/SWNS