This row of oddly hacked trees is on the east side of a house on Cowell Boulevard in Davis.

My best guess is that there's a chainsaw in the garage and a man that doesn't know how to use a chainsaw in the house.

File this one under either hideous or disfigured.

Here's another 52nd Street tree. After the failure of a single branch, the owner called in someone recommended by a neighbor. The tree was topped by the boob with the chainsaw and now the leaders terminate in hideous tangles of witch's brooms. It's an ugly sight in the summer, but positively grotesque after leaf fall.

Here's a textbook example of unnecessary tree-topping from 52nd Street in Sacramento. Prior to this pointless exercise in maiming, the tree was an attractive specimen--one of the best on a block not well treed.