Why don’t you cut down that noxious giant hogwart plant outside your townhouse? I’ve left messages on how poisonous that plant is, but no action…
Maybe you don’t really care, but someone might get to close for their own good and receive a nasty case of burnt skin and possible blindness…
Just thought people should be aware to avoid it—halifaxmentor
This article appears in Aug 12-18, 2010.
Holy fuck! here we go with the hogweed nut jobs! I knew this was coming!
Hogweed has been around in NS for 30 years. I have hit a patch of it doing landscaping in High school and it just stings a little for like an hour and its done.
FUCK people are so impressionable ! the shitty media runs a few FOX news style stories and all off a sudden we are under seige!
THE SKY IS FALLING!
SHARK ATTACKS!
ACID RAIN!
cut it down yourself op…unless it’s a triffid
If it’s on his lawn then people shouldn’t even be near it anyways. And if it really pisses you off enough and it’s been talking behind your back in plant-language then kill it. How hard is it to murk a plant?
I thought it was the CNN style of the World Is Doomed reporting.
@Triffid. Lovin’ it Painey. Glad you have at least one more critter back in the treehouse. >: )
Perhaps the owner of the property wants to have a professional get rid of it? If it’s like most weeds it probably needs to be pulled out by the roots to get rid of it, and maybe the owner just doesn’t have the right tools.
Hog weed…who cares. If the OP is so damn concerned about it, why not just buy a bottle of RoundUp? Crappy Tire sells it. Or is the OP one of those “Save the Earth” granolas.
If the OP was an eco-druid Seb, she’d be defending the Hogweed’s right to exist and possibly arguing that it should be granted special benefits as a “New Canadian” and that we should embrace the toxic hurty-burny contribution to our mosaic of diversity instead of reacting in a close-minded bigoted fashion against something strange and different that we clearly do not understand.
Sebastian, run it over with your station wagon! That’ll kill it.
“how poisonous that plant is” “… receive a nasty case of burnt skin and possible blindness”
What plant is this exactly?
DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS! AAAIIIEEEEE!
“The triffid is a highly venomous fictional plant species, the titular antagonist from John Wyndham ‘s 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids”
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yes donkey…great book and i think they made a film as well
Yup, they made a film in the early 60s that differed greatly from the book. And I believe a BBC mini-series in the early 90s that was more faithful but suffered from the Dr. Who type production values of the day.
SOBova showed me a trailer for “The Owls of Ga’Hoole.”
The animation looks amazing. Think Harry Potter meets Lord of the Rings – with Australian owls. I’m actually psyched.
If it’s on private property I don’t see a problem with it.
I also think people are overreacting and exaggerating the physical dangers of the plant. Saying something like “toxic plant causes burns and blindness” is simplistic and inflammatory. And that’s exactly what most news headlines say. Sadly most people don’t read any farther than the headline. Even sadder, most journalists write shitty articles that don’t give all the facts for those who do read farther than the headline.
In reality the burns come only from the sap and only when the sap reacts to UV rays. The sap can only get on you if you cut the stalk or touch the leaves. So if you get the sap on you, all you have to do is cover it up as quickly as possible to protect it from the UV rays. The burns are most commonly a mild rash, occasionally blisters, and rarely dermatitis. Temporary blindness is extremely rare and can be easily avoided by not touching your face after being exposed. Permanent blindness is almost unheard of.
News media also like to graphically describe the blisters in particular. It’s pretty gross sounding, but any injury when graphically described is gross sounding. How gross an injury sounds doesn’t directly correlate with how serious or treatable it is. They also like to emphasize that the scars from the rare more severe cases “take several years to fade” as if scars in general don’t take several years to fade, that’s what a scar is… It’s common sense, the way things are written and presented can easily make things look worse than they usually are.
There are lots of other dangerous plants in this province, the only reason why people are shitting themselves over this one is that it’s relatively new to the area. Several years in the future when people are used to it and know how to identify it, not to touch it, and what to do if they do touch it, it won’t be such a big deal. But we’ll never get there if we don’t educate the public about the plant properly.
you’re smart snoopster^^the midwich cuckoos and the chrysalids were great books as well
That they were – but shun the ’95 remake of Village of the Damned. It’s not even “so bad it’s good” – it’s just plain horrible. On the plus side Kirstie Alley dies hard >: )
i have a clandestine campaign going. trying to get folks to read…books rawk
You know that movie scared the living daylights out of me … that and Children of the Corn. All these Satan children and now a Satan tree …
Only way they could have been worse, is if the kids were gingers. YIKES.
We *mouse ears* reading.
we call that movie “children of the creamed corn”