Some people are always right. Even if they're wrong.

When I recently posted a photograph on my social media of a tree in Callum Brae Nature Reserve with a badly scarred trunk, several keyboard warriors commented that the significant scratches and gouging "had to be manmade".

"It is clearly something that was 'wrapped' around the tree while it was growing," one reader attested, while more than 200 people 'liked' a theory by another misinformed commentator who insisted it was "clearly a 4WD winching off the tree without a protector".

When I had the audacity to suggest it was natural rather than manmade, Mitchell S responded that there's "absolutely nothing in nature could cause that", later firing off a private missive that not only questioned my parental lineage but, and I'm paraphrasi

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