Redskins owner Dan Snyder has trees in the backyard of his $10 million estate, and those trees block his view of the Potomac river. He wants to cut them down. The National Park Service said no. According to the Washington Post, Dan Snyder offerred them $25,000.
The Park Service said no, they couldn’t do that, but Snyder could make a general donation to the Park Service, unrelated to his tree problem. He did, and the tress magically disappeared.
There’s more to the story, but it ends with Snyder indeed being able to cut down most of the trees and underbrush, the Park service getting a lot of money and the promise of more in the future, and then Snyder accusing them of squeezing $100,000 grand out of him and claming that he is actually helping the environment while increasing his property value, which I’m sure is just an unintended side benefit.
You’ve really gotta watch those Park service people. Notorious thieves, they are. Fucking treehuggers.
Monponsett Says:
August 20th, 2005 at 7:35 am
Tree roots in the ground prevent erosion of the river bank.
If the Snyde One owns a mile or so of river frontage- as I suspect he does- losing a few feet of river bank will eventually shave an acre or two off his property…..thus LOWERING the property value.
If those are cherry trees, he could have saved a lot of money- AND generated some tremendous publicity- by claiming that, as he and his wife watched in horror, the ghost of George Washington appeared and hacked those suckers down with his trusty hatchet.
BTW….just looking at that picture takes a lot of Ooomph out of the “George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Potomac” story, no? I bet Carl Lewis could standing-broad-jump that sh**.