The 120-year-old heritage-listed bunya pine in the grounds of the Courthouse Hotel has been dropping huge pine cones.
The Baw Baw Council says they weigh up to 10 kilograms each. Mayor Diane Blackwood says the cones are potentially lethal. "These things are enormous," she said.
"They are the size of a watermelon, falling literally out of the sky from potentially 20 metres high. So you wouldn't want to be under one, I tell you." The area was cordoned off while council workers removed the remaining pine cones.
4 comments:
Whoa, the art projects teachers could have students do with these would be amazing.
Is there NOTHING in australia that will not kill you?!
In my backyard these pine cones are very common.
I'm from Argentina.
Please oh please show this to councils in Britain so they can get a bit of perspective - *this* sort of thing is a problem. Conkers falling on parked cars (thereby apparently necessitating the felling of a dozen ancient oak trees) isn't!
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