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Lily Tomlin -- Hack

Posted Aug 21st 2008 5:15PM by TMZ Staff

The cops have been summoned in Lily Tomlin's neighborhood war.

LAPD officers were called by Lily's neighbor in Sherman Oaks this morning, after Lily had her lumberjack goons chop down his trees. Lily has complained her neighbor's trees are overgrown and could fall on her house.

The cops stopped the men in trees from continuing. But when the police left, the tree dudes kept chopping away and the neighbor was piiiiised. L.A. tree officials came to scene and it looks like the guys Lily hired don't have a license to kill, so they've been stopped, at least temporarily.

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16. Yeah, well.......Lily is probably not making any friends this way - and it sux to have hostile feelings (towards others or them towards you) when that is where your home is. I don't know if she did or not, but hopefully she at least tried to contact her neighbors and come together with an agreement on the trees. Our neighbors trees and vines have leaped over our fence they hang everywhere and cover up our own bushes and flowers.....we spend a lot of time and energy gently trimming them back (they said we could, but it would be nice to have some help). Now they have poison ivy that is going EVERYWHERE......neighbors need to be aware of how their actions (or lack of) affect others

Posted at 8:07PM on Aug 21st 2008 by LarnieBelle

17. The neighbor was drunk!! Look at him again. I'm surprised the cops didn't take him away. No matter if what she did was right or wrong.

Posted at 8:16PM on Aug 21st 2008 by Scouse

18. The damages for intentionally cutting down a neighbor's trees must be trebled. If these trees added signficantly to the value of her neighbor's home she is cruising for a bruising.

Posted at 8:50PM on Aug 21st 2008 by treelawyer

19. L-I-L-Y. It's called copy editing. Try it sometime.

Posted at 8:31PM on Aug 21st 2008 by spellcheck

20. Lily, here's your standing ovation!
Thanx for saving Jenny the Elephant from eating tacos!

Posted at 8:37PM on Aug 21st 2008 by chicken stripper

21. Oh my God..I can totally identify with Lilly! My neighbors trees are so ugly and diseased....AND the leaves fall in my pool! The neighbors are too cheap and jealous to get the trees trimmed or cut down! Good for you Lilly!!!

Posted at 9:09PM on Aug 21st 2008 by Deborah

22. 1) This man is a homophobe and his rant is pure hate speech!

2) This clip does not allow us to see if the trees in question were a danger to her home .... ten to one they were!

3) Lily Tomlin has a great love for this planet and all the living things that grow and live here!

And another thing, Lily Tomlin is a major talent and a huge Star. Hollywood considers her to be a well rounded, loving person and she is respected and loved by all of Hollywood!

WE SUPPORT YOU ... love from the Belles!

Posted at 9:12PM on Aug 21st 2008 by BlueCircleGirl

23. From LA Times today:

"Los Angeles police responded to Lily Tomlin's home today after a neighbor mistakenly accused the actress of chopping down trees on the neighbor's property, a authorities said.

Officers were called to the 3000 block of Longridge Avenue in Sherman Oaks about 11:20 a.m. following a report of a neighbor dispute, said Officer Jason Lee, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department.

The caller mistakenly said that one of her neighbors, later identified as Tomlin, had workers cutting down dead trees on the caller's property.

Two officers and sergeant determined that there was no further issue after "reviewing the situation and determining that the trees were within Tomlin's property," Lee said."

Your story seems to be wrong TMZ.

Posted at 10:02PM on Aug 21st 2008 by phdguru

24. They should make like a tree and leave!

Posted at 10:14PM on Aug 21st 2008 by S

25. Did you say "Sherman Oaks"??? I lived there while growing up. Went to Sherman Oaks Elementary. What a small world...

Posted at 12:36AM on Aug 22nd 2008 by Love the OC; Living in the OC

26. what kind of freak hates trees?

Posted at 1:49AM on Aug 22nd 2008 by Reta

27. My god TMZ....Use the flippin spell check!

Posted at 4:21AM on Aug 22nd 2008 by Michelle

28. Soooooooo.....L.T is strip mining in Jupiter Hollow after all.

Good for her. A word to the wise: Lily Tomlin is ALWAYS right.

Posted at 4:29AM on Aug 22nd 2008 by Campy

29. WIkipedia has this incident listed in its entry on Lily Tomlin. WTF? Too funny.