Cut down trees and... ‘Put up a parking lot’?

Southwest Trees and Turf newspaper reported...

There’s a 61 year old man in Las Vegas who was upset that trees were blocking his backyard view of the Las Vegas strip…the trees were planted by the project developer… so he decided to insure his view by cutting down more than 500 trees in the upscale community where he lived…I don’t know if all the trees were on his property…a neighbor caught him red-handed with a tree saw in his hand...
He was sentenced to up to five years in prison for killing the trees. The long sentence was partially due to a letter he wrote promising to unleash ‘chemical, biological and nuclear mass destruction’ because of tree plantings…
The man said he was not a bad person as he was a retired construction worker with hip, back, heart and prostate problems! Did his illnesses make a difference? He and his wife had asked the homeowner association if they could swap out the trees for shrubs, but were told NO. At his sentencing the neighbor was quoted as saying: “If he was cutting trees, was he going to cut people next?”