If the forest gets dry enough, air can get into the vessels that carry water through a tree - kind of like an air bubble in a fuel line - and a tree dies.

They later settled on trying to "frighten him to death" by throwing bricks through his Windows and cutting the fuel line on his car in hopes it would explode, the Guardian notes.

When they found out that I was dry, one of them turned his bike around and got out a badly kinked fuel line.