Berkeley’s Hippie Harvest

Ah, autumn.  Time for football, and many enjoy the new crispness of the air.  The leaves are turning into stunning golds and reds and hippies are fully ripe and falling from the trees.

Meet Nate Hill.  He’s 24 and thinks that if he quits bathing and sits in a tree for months, mabe an unshaved hippie chick will want to make out with him.  But he would be wrong.  He’s now recuperating in a hospital (no doubt on the public’s dime because failures such as he won’t buy health insurance) with two broken wrists and a busted ankle.  He fell from a tree he was illegally occupying.

From NBC11 here:

On Sunday evening a Memorial Oak Grove tree-sitter fell from the supply-line that is used to ferry food, water and people into and out of the tree-sit protest.

24-year-old Nate Hill is recovering from a broken wrist and a broken ankle after falling 40-feet from the branches of the oak grove he is has been fighting to save.

Hill said although he does not want to place blame he believes the accident would not have happened if the university had not put up a fence around the grove.

“What the University is doing to attempt to push us out is not safe and safety is first,” he said.

“The accident is very regrettable but to state the obvious, completely avoidable,” he said. “Things like this wouldn’t happen if people who are illegally occupying university property were obeying the law.”

What a dimwit.  He doesn’t even go to school there.  If he wants to be safe, he should stay on the ground and respect his evolutionary heritage. 

Just because he grows his hair to look like a golden lion tamarin doesn’t mean he is one.