:(

Bummer... 

The guy that lives right by there finally got fed up with everyone honking at all hours of the night.

Yeah, that was probably me, Tamara, but now I feel a little bad for repeating an unsubstantiated rumor.  From reading through the DNT comments section is seems as though a lot of TH students are trying to distance themselves from that notion.  And I don't blame them.  For our class "prank" I wasn't involved at all, in fact very very few students actually were.  So even if it was a senior prank to cut the honking tree, and I don't have any real evidence that it was, I'm sure very few people actually went along with it.  

The truth will come out soon, I'm sure.  It's a tragedy.

Spy1 is right -- what kind of person would cut down an iconic tree in the middle of the night? It's no prank, it's someone full of hate with a huge chip on his shoulder who blames the world for his (or her) problems. Someone on the DNT board was also saying it was someone who had to know what they were doing -- cutting down a tree is serious business, and if someone did not know what they were doing, the tree would have fallen on the highway -- and probably injured someone. Hard to believe someone would do this and nobody would notice, even if it was middle of the night.

Unacceptable.  I KNEW I should have stopped and gotten a picture of it this winter.  What a bunch of pathetic losers.  Also agree that someone had to have seen something.

plant lots of other ones.

I am a student at UMD and I saw some status of some recent graduates of Duluth East that some of their friends still in high school posted pictures of themselves cutting it down as a prank. If this is true and those pictures are out there I hope they are brought to justice.

Zra's right-- he or she or they can't brag about this one, it's going to eat at them -- hopefully they'll confess to someone who will then do the right thing, and justice will be served. There are funny pranks, and then there are really sick and mean pranks. This is up there in the sick and mean prank by somebosy or somebodies with some personal issues.

To be a prank it must meet two conditions: 

1. temporary 
2. clever 

This was permanent and amazingly stupid. Congratulations.