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Anthony Avellino says he will fight a $1,000 citation for “destruction, defacement or abuse of a tree” after his two daughters and a friend climbed a Japanese Pine in New York’s Central Park. The three girls, aged 9 to 11, knocked several small branches from the tree when they climbed it, park rangers said. There were no warning signs to keep kids from climbing the trees. “There are lots of things that you cannot do in parks that are not posted,” a Parks Department spokesman said. “If we listed every rule, we’d have more signs than trees.” (AP) ...There’s a rule against secret rules, but that rule’s existence has never been revealed.


Publication Date: 11 April 1999

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