stackyFACTSWhen an intoxicated official feels deeply threatened by the local foliage, swift justice must happen. A very drunk officer ordered a large banyan tree to be permanently arrested with heavy iron chains because he hallucinated it was aggressively moving towards him. The poor tree has remained entirely chained up for over a century.
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