Arborcidal Maniac Speaks After Thousands Perish

The Post follows up over the weekend about the horticidal-arborcidal maniac now in custody — “Whacker Out of His Tree”:

“All trees and nests must die and be controlled!”

That’s what a kooky shrub-drubber said when cops grilled him on some $24,000 in damage he allegedly caused by breaking tree branches and upending bushes in Union Square Park.

“I did it!” David Sasson, 34, of East 14th Street, boasted when cops caught him Thursday morning, as he was allegedly continuing his three-week spree. “I’ve done this to thousands of trees!”

The alleged shrub schlub’s police statements were released yesterday, as a Manhattan judge ordered him to Bellevue.