"Paul S." wrote

Just when you thought you heard everything:

A friend relayed a story to me of a neighbor who decided that he wanted to
get rid of a tree.

People are appallingly ignorant. Look at newsgroup questions for which
RTFM is an entirely appropriate response. And *these* people at least
bothered to ask before jumping into something with no clue whatsoever.
High IQ or position in life has no correlation with common sense.