A poisonous plant on an overgrown path close to a primary school has raised concerns about children's safety.
The head teacher of Bucklesham Primary School in Suffolk said pupils had to walk in the road to avoid the hemlock, which can be fatal if ingested.
Unless they walk to school with their mouths open like basking sharks, what 'danger' are they really in?
A village parish councillor warned "children's lives are at stake" and called for the plant's urgent removal.
Good grief, is this village entirely chock-full of hysterical risk-averse ninnies?
Suffolk County Council said Monday was the earliest it was able to clear the path because a road closure was needed.
Oh. That's a big 'Yes!' then...
H/T: Hackney Dr of Maaate via Twitter
Why don't the hysterical loons just pull up the plant and burn it? Do they always have to have things done for them?
ReplyDeleteWhat has this country come to?
More to the point, why don't they leave it there and teach the children not to eat it?
ReplyDeleteHemlock is easy to remove, it has a single tap root and a fork underneath it to loosen the soil makes it simple to pull up. I dig it up all the time on my farm, as it is dangerous for livestock. Why are people so flipping precious (and entitled) about everything these days? If it needs doing so your kids can walk to school, get out there and sort it out yourself, its hardly building the Forth Road bridge.
ReplyDeleteWhat a band of idle fuckwit snowflakes! I suppose it got them mention on t'interweb, which may well have been their intention.
ReplyDeleteI wonder, do they realise just how many other common or garden plants are as toxic as, or even more so than, that poor hemlock?
ReplyDeleteI'm tempted to publish a list and ... watch them either denude the entire area of greenery or (more likely) have a complete breakdown and confine themselves to their houses (at which point I can add the whole list of toxic substances in the home).
Does this make me a bad person? :-D
From my experience, most children don't generally go around randomly eating the shrubbery, and for those who do, or might, I suspect getting mum off her iPhone, or off her fat behind in-front of the TV, and doing her job and ... supervise 'her' own problem children might, just might, be the answer instead. but what do i know?
"Why don't the hysterical loons just pull up the plant and burn it?"
ReplyDeleteThey don't have any NATO grade chemical weapon suits to hand? 😉
"Why are people so flipping precious (and entitled) about everything these days?"
I suppose we should be thankful we've actually found a school where parents WALK their children there...
"I wonder, do they realise just how many other common or garden plants are as toxic as, or even more so than, that poor hemlock?"
Or how many potentially toxic if misused things they have in their own home store cupboards?