[bookshare-discuss] OT: Fwd: Fw: Blind woman helps nab tree killers
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:34:25 -0800 (PST)
Another article from my friend that I thought you all
might find interesting -- a case of real-life Blind
Justice.
Cindy
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> KHOU.com, Texas
> Tuesday, March 22, 2005
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> Blind woman helps nab tree killers
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> By Doug Miller / 11 News
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> HOUSTON -- Vandals armed with axes have been
> chopping down trees in a
> southwest Houston park. Now law enforcement
> authorities say they've caught
> their prime suspects with help from a surprising
> witness.
>
> Police have charged three teens with chopping down
> trees at Godwin Park.
>
> The missing trees upset many of the people who enjoy
> themselves at Godwin
> Park.
>
> "We've walked around here forever and ever," said
> Linda Moores, who is
> blind. She has walked in the park ever since she was
> a little girl.
>
> "It's a real comfort," said Moores.
>
> But some people don't come to the park to play.
> Somebody has taken an ax to
> the Godwin Park trees.
>
> "They started hacking on a smaller tree over there.
> Then they started on
> this big tree as you see over there," said Nina
> Crowley, Moores' friend and
> neighbor. "And then that big tree. And they've cut,
> I guess, seven
> altogether."
>
> Stumps are all that's left of some of the trees
> chopped up during the past
> few weeks.
>
> "And they just were so pretty," said Crowley.
>
> But law enforcement finally got a break Sunday night
> from a witness living
> near the park -- a witness who just happened to be
> blind.
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> "I heard this, what was clearly, unmistakably an ax
> on a tree," said Moores.
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> When deputies arrived, they discovered a group of
> teenaged boys, with ax in
> hand. Three boys, aged 13, 14 and 15, were taken
> into custody. When deputies
> asked the boys why they'd cut down those trees, they
> say, the boys answered
> they were bored.
>
> "And really, who in the world would want to do that?
> I mean, it's just
> beyond the pale," said Moores.
>
> We're told the boys accused of chopping down the
> trees have been charged
> with criminal mischief.
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http://www.khou.com/news/local/houstonmetro/stories/khou050321_mh_tree.15edb
> 0707.html
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