The chainsaw used to attack the pine on One Tree Hill was put up for auction..


It was up for sale with a starting point of $5000.


Should this be allowed?
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ST
It amazes me how ill informed some people are. It is not Mike Smith selling the chainsaw, it is the owner of the chainsaw. The reason why the chainsaw was not destroyed is because it was not Mike Smiths property, he borrowed it off a friend. The money is being raised to go towards a local development project. Basically it is his property and he should be free to do what he wants with it. Instead of getting all worked up and turning into an angry mob you should all take a couple of deep breaths and respect the right of the individual. Its actually none of your business what a man does with his own property.

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Chill everyone, the listing has been removed already by the new SS that is Trade Me management. I suspect tho the people against the sale were probably the same sorts of people that prevented faster cheaper broadband by stopping Telstra from installing overhead cables and/or buy a house next to a stockcar track and complain about the noise or buy a house near to an airforce base and stick a no airport sticker on their car when someone has the excellent idea of putting less load on an airport in the middle of a slum.

You guys deserve everything you get.

Ed
It surprise me greatly that this chainsaw was still in existance. I would have thought that this would have been taken by the police and that the judge would have ordered it to be conviscated. Does the general public accept that because this Mike Smith says it is ‘the’ chainsaw, that it is? I would doubt it. But if it is, it should not be allowed to be profited by auction.

Daniel
That someone probably will pay that much for it. If it was not confiscated at the time of the crime, then obviously its still their property, and they are entitled to sell it any way they choose, thats one of the rights of ownership, isnt it? Though if anyone does pay anything close to US$5,000 for it, they have more money than sense.

P.Dixon
If the chainsaw is sold to the highest bidder would that person (the person selling chainsaw) consider buying and replanting the same kind of tree in place off whats there now? The hill is and all ways will be a significant land mark with a tree and nothing else.If the tree is rotten or breaks for some reason then uproot it and replace with another with the council approval off course. One Tree Hill should always be called by its original name, not concrete hill.I suppose with the times a changing it makes you wonder why they make radical decisions like this. If your toilet seat is old and worn do you go out and buy a whole new toilet? It is so hard to understand the reason why the tree was replaced with concrete. No matter how long it took to grow the tree the name of the hill would always remain the same forever because it grew when New Zealand grew through the years. Did anyone think to ask the people of NZ first? .I hope the next 6 years they think things through first before they make radical decisions.