Not that funny but damn, what kind of idiot would cut down a tree from a state arboretum located inside a university botanical garden?
Rare tree stolen from Washington Park Arboretum
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010468121_tree10m.html
By Sandi Doughton
Seattle Times science reporter
When they spotted the stump Wednesday, staffers at the Washington Park Arboretum had little doubt what happened: Someone seeking a free Christmas tree had chopped down a likely candidate.
But even the Grinch wouldn't have targeted that particular tree.
The 7-foot conifer was one of the park's rarest specimens, an imperiled species collected from the mountainous Yunnan province in China...........
