We May Need to Stop Calling Them Tree Huggers

They're taking it up a notch. Man jailed for trying to hump a tree.

A MAN who was banned from a park after it was alleged he tried to have sex with a tree in broad daylight has been jailed for five months and put on the Sex Offenders' Register for seven years. William Shaw, 22, of Airdrie, was ordered by a sheriff not to enter Central Park, Airdrie, after it was claimed he dropped his trousers and underpants, exposed himself, and while his trousers were around his ankles, simulated having sex with a tree.

The prosecutor said: "His trousers and underpants were at his ankles, he was standing at a park bench and his arms were at his side. A woman, walking her dog, was just five to ten yards away. She went over to two children who were playing and stopped them from looking. She also contacted police. There were trees in the vicinity and a football match was going on at the same time. There were numerous people in the park."