Man attacks tree after holding grudge against it for years

A La Crosse, Wisconsin man took revenge on a tree last weekend.

When officers came across a crowd gathered around a tree outside a Mexican restaurant in downtown La Crosse, they found Mitchel Pfaff, 25, up in it.

Pfaff, who had broken off a branch, told police he was avenging a friend that had fallen from the same tree and split his head open a few years before.

A La Crosse Tribune commenter claimed that there 'were at least 10 police officers and 8 firemen' there to deal with Pfaff's having gotten himself up a tree. 

The Tribune reported that 'Pfaff was given a $240 ticket for damage to property and $177 ticket for disorderly conduct.'

I don't think it's going out on a limb to expect to read something about drunkenness in a weird story like this, but either the paper failed to report that, the cops neglected to ticket him for it, or the fool was actually sober when he did this at 3am on a Saturday.