In the Landi Kotal soil forces cantonment surface area inward present-day Islamic Republic of Pakistan , at that topographic point is a banyan tree that is kept chained to the soil equally if to preclude it from escaping. H5N1 board hanging from its branches read , inward part: "I am nether arrest."
The even goes that inward 1898 , a British soil forces officeholder named James Squid , nether the influence of alcohol , idea that the tree was lurching towards him. Threatened past times the tree , the officeholder ordered the mess sergeant to arrest it. The mess sergeant followed the officer's orders too chained the offending tree. More than a hundred years subsequently , the tree is however inward chains.
“Through this act , the British basically implied to the tribesmen that if they dared act against the Raj , they likewise would travel punished inward a similar fashion ," a resident of the soil forces cantonment told the Tribune.
The Tree That Owns Itself
Sources: Tribune / Washington Post / Wikipedia