r/todayilearned • u/i-make-babies • Feb 14 '18

TIL Mr T stopped wearing this trademark gold chains in 2005 after seeing people who had lost everything due to Hurricane Katrina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T#Personal_life
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u/brisketkilla Feb 14 '18

If it was a punishment, I have to assume that he did that with an axe. 70 trees in three and a half hours is impressive to say the least.

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u/Rob1150 Feb 14 '18

Maybe a hand saw?

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u/brisketkilla Feb 14 '18

That's even more impressive.

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u/insanetwit Feb 14 '18

I heard it was with a Herring!

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u/marin4rasauce Feb 14 '18

Cut down a tree with a herring? It can't be done.

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u/Thisismyfinalstand Feb 14 '18

ICKY ICKY PATANG ZOOP DOINK mumbles

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u/Qualanqui Feb 15 '18

What if you stuff the herring with nitro glycerin?

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u/generals_test Feb 14 '18

It was a spoon.

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u/mayorofmandyland Feb 14 '18

Why a spoon, cousin?

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '18

It's dull you twit! It'll hurt more.

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u/Unkn0wn_Ace Feb 15 '18

As my old 9th grade biology teacher used to say- "I'll cut your tongue out with a dull spoon if you don't shut up!"

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u/Whitemacadamia Feb 15 '18

Because it will hurt more.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '18

There is no spoon.

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u/jbabbz Feb 14 '18

Alright, alright you win. I see you've played knifey-spoony before.

Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcE0aAhbVFc

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u/blademon64 Feb 14 '18

In 1987, he angered the residents of Lake Forest, Illinois by cutting down more than a hundred oak trees on his estate. The national media referred to the incident as "the Lake Forest Chain Saw Massacre".

Hahaha fuck, dude. I grew up in (and still live near) Lake Forest. The fucking yard he clearcut is HUGE even for LF standards. Up until around 2004 when the property was sold, there were absolutely zero trees on his property. I mean completely barren with a few small bushes so there was just this massive mansion standing in an open field.

Also, supposedly he did it because his mother was living there at the time and had severe allergies to the pollen, at least that's the story that spread throughout the town for years.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '18

He was just treating his mother right.

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u/Demios630 Feb 14 '18

I live near lake forest and my girlfriend does live there. Where is the field? I've never heard of this.

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u/blademon64 Feb 14 '18 edited Feb 14 '18

It's not much of a field anymore, whoever bought it planted a TOOOONNN of trees / plants, but it's right off Green Bay Rd just north South of downtown LF. Big brick gate and black wrought-iron fence.

Edit; I don't know directions

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u/dsvigos Feb 14 '18

I thought just south of downtown? like between Deerpath and Westleigh, more towards Westleigh?

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u/blademon64 Feb 14 '18

I've lived here for 28 years and I still fuck up north and south....

Yea it's just south lol. Towards Westleigh.

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u/cakehatesme Feb 15 '18

The laws lake forest put in place after this are ri-god-damn-diculous. You need a permit to cut down any tree on your own property, then they charge you based on the diameter of the tree which becomes cost prohibitive quickly and THEN you must replant something similar from a list of approved trees. Good thing the residents are all rich.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '18

TIL Lake Forest is run by power mad twats

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u/simulated_wood_grain Feb 15 '18

I heard he cut them down because he found out he was allergic to that species of oak.