These people helping or harming this tree?

It was raining heavily outside. I spotted two guys coming out of a truck, one of them holding a saw. Then I saw a half broken branch on the dwarf birch outside. These folks decided to amputate. Well, since I'm no tree expert I can't say for sure, but it felt strange watching the naked twig on the trunk when they were done. Funny, how they left just as fast as they had arrived.



I wonder how they would have reacted if they'd seen me, standing there in the window with a flashing camera. "Shit, he's gonna report us!" or something, they must have thought. My imagination had time building up this mad man's scenario, where these men returned to the scene of the crime, knocking on my door, dressed like Cable Guy, slaughtered me, blam, no witness; no evidence. Case closed!