Because this being a big city and all, apparently people were eating the leaves off the deadly nightshade oleander the Pru had planted because, well, the plants are pretty, Channel 4 reports.
Well to be fair kids eat the craziest things. Those plants are so pretty I can see a kid plucking one off the stem and eating it. The cost of removal is worth it considering the potential danger to young children who like pretty and shiny things.
My mother was a very attentive, very very very attentive mother and yet my brother still ingested the occasional insect. Kids break away, they look at things, they eat things. If my hoovercraft of a mother was not able to stop my brother from eating a few bugs I am sure other parents will not be able to stop their children before they pluck and eat a few leaves. Worse yet since most people would assume that plants planted outside of buildings are actually dangerous to eat they would do nothing about it.
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Quick lets rip up all the
Quick lets rip up all the tomato plants too, since their leaves are also deadly!
...ugh
...Ugh
How can humans continue to evolve when we keep trying to save the stupid people.
Well to be fair kids eat the
Well to be fair kids eat the craziest things. Those plants are so pretty I can see a kid plucking one off the stem and eating it. The cost of removal is worth it considering the potential danger to young children who like pretty and shiny things.
Better Idea: Watch you damn
Better Idea: Watch you damn kids.
Better Idea
Git yerself a log in before you drive by!
My mother was a very
My mother was a very attentive, very very very attentive mother and yet my brother still ingested the occasional insect. Kids break away, they look at things, they eat things. If my hoovercraft of a mother was not able to stop my brother from eating a few bugs I am sure other parents will not be able to stop their children before they pluck and eat a few leaves. Worse yet since most people would assume that plants planted outside of buildings are actually dangerous to eat they would do nothing about it.
Dammit, We Can't Have Nice Things
FTA: "We called the Prudential Center to share our Curiosity e-mail with them, and the Pru quickly removed all 22 oleander plants"
I'm going to email them Jason Lee's rant about escalators from "Mallrats" just to stir things up.