Even the trees got screwed over by 9/11

While walking past the Capitol building this afternoon, I noticed something strange inside one of the grand old trees just outside the Senate side of the building.

Cement.   A lot of cement.

Where there had once been a big empty hollow space, there was now only cement. Presumably, the space was determined to be big enough for people or large quantities of explosives to be stashed in. Or perhaps the squirrels were determined to have an "intent" to build weapons of mass destruction.

Anyway, the point is that its strange to see a living tree full of cement. Obviously, nobody wanted to chop down a tree that's probably been standing beside the Senate since the late 19th or early 20th century. So they came up with a solution one step above wrapping the trunk of the tree with duct tape or a yellow police line. They filled it with cement.

Thanks a lot Osama. Not only did you kill thousands and fuck up two American cities, but here we are four years later with cement-filled trees.