I wonder if they let you run with scissors?

[pmclaine]

Park lets children to play with knives and jump off buildings

Children operate sharpened saws, nails, and hammers. They even light bonfires and have open air cookouts.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Reminds me of a story......

Brought my kids to school and some parents got to talking about the infestation of poison ivy in the woods behind my house.

Its a conservation land approx 14 acres big.

Any way their conclusion was poison ivy is a result of global warming, the hotter climate being ideal for poison ivy.

I told them that has nothing to do with it.

I let them know the woods havent burned in years but when I was a kid it would have firefighters marching out there bi weekly to put out fires.

The fires of course being started by kids playing with matches in the woods.

The ground cover, which is poison ivy, couldnt grow when it was on fire.

No believing in Occams Razor for this group. My story was brushed aside in acceptance of planetary inferno created by man.

Sadly the woods is no longer as healthy as it was. The big oaks are dying probably choked off in the competition from the ground cover.

Only the paths where the dog walkers hope no one sees them not picking up shit are clear.

Why dont they all just kill themselves than and give me peace.

 

[Rthur]

There is no virtue in simple solutions.
By talking like they have concerns/knowledge about the Hoax they can signal it amongst their clique.

R

 

[EddieNFL]

You may have triggered one or two. Careful, or you'll be banned from school grounds.

 

[pmclaine]

I live about 7 miles from Boston as the crow and the car fly/drive.

We had a black bear in town last May/early June. A juvenile black.

It closed down the local school and had news helicopters over head for a full morning.

The myth "We are encroaching on their territory and the poor animals have no place to get away from us"

The reality - The last Black Bear sighted in Arlington was sometime prior to 1775 and its not us encroaching on their land its the expanded population since hunting and gun owning have been made more difficult that has resulted in a large population of Black Bears.

The environment is getting much better. The stone walls didnt get place in the woods around the trees. There were no trees its was all farm land and now we have forests.

This will all come to head now that sharks are poised to eat people off Cape Cod.

Nature is nice until it starts to effect the bottom line.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

I bet that in 1491 there were a ton of bears in what is now Boston... ;-)

They are just adapting to dumpsters and tasty cyclists now that the population is getting back to pre-Columbia’s levels.

Oh and shark attack’s off Cape Cod? They been promising that since about 1975... when they going to start eating Harvard’s and Kennedy’s?

I feel your pain PM... I lived in concord for a year and Clinton for 5 years. Up
To 2001. Fruitcakeland turned up to 11!!!!

Cheers, Sirhr

 

[buffalowinter]

Intolerable child abuse. Here's a pic from my heritage, 4 generations ago

.

 

[308pirate]

Intolerable child abuse. Here's a pic from my heritage, 4 generations agoView attachment 7124169.

Welsh coal miners?

 

[buffalowinter]

yep. My ancestors were Welsh coal miners on one side and Polish coal miners on the other. Emigrated to the US. 3 generations ago. I am a naturalized US citizen, having been born in England, before having US parents automatically gave you citizenship.

 

[pmclaine]

yep. My ancestors were Welsh coal miners on one side and Polish coal miners on the other. Emigrated to the US. 3 generations ago. I am a naturalized US citizen, having been born in England, before having US parents automatically gave you citizenship.

So you are from the tribe that constitutes our oldest, most ancient enemy........

You just made the list.

@ArmyJerry will be watching you.

 

[MtnCreek]

2,4-D with an oz or two of diesel / gal. I would have loved explaining it to them.

The bear was probably a boar that just learned what territory is and how he was in the wrong one. Gtfo and don’t look back.

 

[supercorndogs]

Diversity in the understory plants of the forrest makes it healthy. Poison ivy grows from a rhizome so it is very hard to kill with fire. All those fires likely killed off much of the other understory, leaving stuff that grows from crowns and rhizomes to take over.

What it needs is not burned, but targeted attack on the poison ivy, then hopefully some of the more desirable native species can get a foot hold, or new ones can be chosen and placed.

 

[pmclaine]

Diversity in the understory plants of the forrest makes it healthy. Poison ivy grows from a rhizome so it is very hard to kill with fire. All those fires likely killed off much of the other understory, leaving stuff that grows from crowns and rhizomes to take over.

What it needs is not burned, but targeted attack on the poison ivy, then hopefully some of the more desirable native species can get a foot hold, or new ones can be chosen and placed.

My bad.

I accede to your greater plant knowledge.

I was wrong but still I was right.......the people I was talking to are nuts.

 

[thejeep]

2,4-D with an oz or two of diesel / gal. I would have loved explaining it to them.

The bear was probably a boar that just learned what territory is and how he was in the wrong one. Gtfo and don’t look back.

Diesel/gas 90:10 in the garden sprayer. And a lighter.

 

[Scott037]

Shit we didn't have you can't rules more why I'll whoop your ass if you do it wrong. Like knifes, guns and fire

 

[Sieg]

Diesel/gas 90:10 in the garden sprayer. And a lighter.

Burn baby burn!

 

[Maser]

I'd run around with scissors if they looked like this: