Reply to post: Can't beat this

A real loch mess: Navy larks sunk by a truculent torpedo

Jon Smit
Pint

Can't beat this

I heard about this years ago and assumed it was made up.

There was once a single tree in the middle of the Sahara Desert, some 250 miles away from any others. It had survived for 300 years, until a drunk driver happened along.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-most-isolated-tree-in-the-world-was-killed-by-a-probably-drunk-driver-5369329/

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