NOUN: Group or organization that needlessly and recklessly destroys trees or forests.The Smart Folks at our fair City Hall have devised an insidious plan to rid our city of overgrown shade trees that have for far too long stood over some of our major roadways. The plan is both clever and simple, and consequently very effective.
ORIGIN: Southeastern United States, in or around Dunwoody, Ga (see "Smart City"), derived from arbor, meaning shady area and abattoir, meaning slaughterhouse.
FIRST USE: 2012
First the City plants a solar operated device as shown here, but not in a sunny location as a common not-so-smart citizen might do. No, the City plants this sign right in the shade of a majestic oak, a mere forty feet from an open, sun drenched area. An area the City intends to expand.Then the City has a revelation--wink, wink, nod, nod. Solar panels do not work in the shade. This was apparently not in the How-To Guide for Smart Cities. So what does the City do? What any Smart City would: with chainsaw at the ready they butcher the offending Oak.
We got some real Fart Smellers down at City Hall, eh?
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