Now this public service message, courtesy of the Sudbury, Mass., police
Don’t do this:
It is just a single pine tree.
The driver was not cited, according to the city’s police chief. He was given a warning “in the spirit of the holidays” and the officer helped secure the tree with “caution” tape.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins