Upon returning from a recent weekend trip, members of the Voskuil family, of St. Elmo, were surprised to find a large tree missing from their backyard. All that remained was the stump, on which “The Tree Bandits” was written in large letters with a Sharpie marker.
“There was not a leaf on the ground,” said Barron Voskuil. “It was like there was never a tree there.”
Confused, she reached out to people on the neighborhood email list to see if anyone knew what may have happened.
“I figured somebody has to know something, but no one had any idea,” she said. “No one saw or heard anything.”
One neighbor suggested an EPB contractor may have been the culprit, though the unprofessional Sharpie writing on the stump made this theory unlikely.