Leon wrote:

"Robert Bonomi" wrote in message
rvers.com...

In all seriousness, probably because they WEREN'T _TOLD_ it was a
"5-year-old

ash" that they were to remove

You are making an assumption here. It was specifically stated that the they
mistook it as a 5 year old Ash.

Robert is, I think, quite correct that they *probably* weren't
actually told what we've heard they were told. Note the emphasis,
because this is all just about probabilities, and opinions, unless
one of us was there...

(And thinking it's more likely that it happened exactly as
stated is putting much more credibility and accuracy into the
media than is reasonable.)

-Peter