Clever thieves managed to steal an 800 year old red cedar tree that was one of the largest in the Vancouver Island area in 2012. What made it so clever? First, they cut through most of the tree, so that park officials would deem it unsafe to remain standing. Once the tree went down, the plan (by the park) was to let it decompose naturally in the forest. It was then that thieves came back and stole the tree, the wood of which was worth thousands of dollars. Clever. Horrific and depressing and pretty darn evil, but clever.