My favorite parts:
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"We support solar power, but we thought common sense would prevail."
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Common sense. With greeniacs. What a pair of idiots.
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Their neighbor Mark Vargas considers himself an environmentalist, too. His 10-kilowatt solar system, which he installed in 2001, is so big he pays only about $60 a year in electrical bills. He drives an electric car.
Vargas said he first asked Treanor and Bissett to chop down the eight redwoods, which the couple had planted from 1997 to 1999 along the fence separating their yards. Later, he asked them to trim the trees to about 15 feet.
"I offered to pay for the removal of the trees. I said let's try to work something out," Vargas said. "They said no to everything.""
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Translation: "I tried to get them to alter their lives for no gain to themselves, for reasons completely selfish to me. They told me to stick it."
Translation: He committed a willful act of stupidity.
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"It's not that we think trees are more or less important than solar collectors. It's that our state's leaders have said under the following circumstances, solar takes precedence," said Ken Rosenblatt, supervising Santa Clara County deputy district attorney for environmental protection."
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Translation: "It's not that we think trees are more or less important than solar collectors. It's that our state's leaders have said that solar collectors are more important."
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"If you have trees, you should be left alone," said Schiavo, who also has solar panels on his roof. "This is going to turn into a nightmare for some homeowners. It doesn't seem fair."
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Translation: "Holy crap, the State is an oppressive, larcenous disease that instinctively seeks to concentrate all power over its citizens' lives and futures in its slime-covered tentacles. I never knew that."
Remind me never to move to California.
-dale