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I may lose all my plants

  • #281
i do
 
  • #282
Holy....

I dont check this thread for a week or so, and next thing I know its TWENTY-NINE PAGES!!!

Can someone give me the short and sweet version, or tell me the page where the verdict can be found?
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Awwww.....nevermind.

Good joke
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I got bored and found the page by chance myself. I just clicked on a random page and found the "verdict" then happened to see the posts bringing up the issue of the date. Lol. Good one...definately had me going.
 
  • #283
He lost all his plants except Utricularia.
 
  • #284
Hah-I knew this was a fools-sorry Ozzy try harder next time!

(I do admit I was pretty shaken by Barry Rice's post...this was ingenious and i'd like some of your talent
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  • #285
I know that this is fairly old news, but it pisses me off so much how a strong majority of people hate snakes so much that they become so paranoid about it, that nobody can convince them that they are mostly harmless. What makes me more mad is that people feel the same way about PLANTS! PLANTS? I mean, who WAS the judge anyway? I guess that she's never been to a plant store then.

Oh no, that venus flytrap 30 feet away might eat your pet frog Billy. Better sue the owner.

Ok, I feel better now.
 
  • #286
LMAO!!!!!!! :-)) I can't believe this thread is back! This is how 0zzy and I met! Awwwww :blush:
 
  • #287
Wha... what's this? The messiah?

Call the papers! A thread TWO years old just got ressurected! The lord has cometh!


Ahh I'm sorry. 3 days without a cigarette. I'm just about to snap.
 
  • #288
AHHH the aprils fools gift that keeps on giving. :-D
 
  • #289
I read the first page of this thread and thougt Ozzy was going at it months early. Perhaps that i had forgotten that i had encountered this, or perhaps i subconsciously did, cause i was immediately suspicious, till saw the date. The confirmed it LOL.
 
  • #290
Wow! I'm sorry Ozzy


I hope that you are able to school them in CPs
 
  • #291
Well, I'm not sure what's going on. I was just served a notice that I must appear in court to explain why I am keeping dangerous pets. The most dangerous animal in my house is my wife's little ankle biter, and she don't even have many teeth. (The dog, not my wife)

Here's part of what the notice say's.



What do you guy's think of that? One thing that I find very weird is everywhere in the notice that says "and plants" is written in.

I have to be in court on Tuesday. It says that since there is a danger to the public that this will be on a rushed schedule.

Last week I moved into a new house. The landlord came over and he saw my plants and asked about them. I showed him the vft's and nepenthes. He asked a lot of questions. What are they? What do they eat? Are they dangerous? and so on. I always like telling people that the nepenthes have been known to capture and digest monkeys in the wild. You should have seen his face when I told him that.
I think my landlord reported me for having dangerous plants. I guess I'll know more Tuesday.

Its ok your landlord is just looking for a way to make money. If you prepare your statements, you will definately win the case and pwn the landlord.
 
  • #292
You should have read this whole thing, dude.
 
  • #293
AHHH the aprils fools gift that keeps on giving. :-D

For a second I felt like an idot. An April Fools Joke? hah.:-)) :jester:
Yeah, but that does really suck. :-(
 
  • #294
And I was racking my brain for a new one. I didn't know I could recycle the old ones.

This is getting easier every year.

:-))
 
  • #295
I'm going to make this short because I really don't feel much like sitting in front of a PC typing.

Court was at 9:30 this morning. I showed up with some pics of my plants, the letters form Barry Rice and Steve Lawarre. I had ny copies of "The Savage Garden" and "CP's of the US and Canada". I had numerous issues of the CPN. I also brought info on almost every plant I had and a vft and a sundew.
The DA started out with my animals. The only animals that he brought up was my snakes. He siad that I had two deadly snakes. One was venomous and the other was a deadly constrictor. I laughed when he said this, I couldn't help it.
It was clear that he did an internet search on them. He brought out info he found that says the hognose snake is venomous and is backfanged just like the deadly boomslang. He then said that the hognose snake produces venom with it's Duvernoy gland. He then said the town ordinace is clear that no venomous animals are allowed to be kept within the city limits.
Then he said I had a potentialy dangeous contstictor, a king snake. He said that a king snake kills in the same way that man eating pythons and anacondas. The king snake can grow as big a six feet. Constrictors are illegal in the town and he qouted the ordinace.

He started to move on to the plants but the judge stopped him and asked me if I wanted to reply to why I had these snakes. I said yes. I said that the burdon of proof is on the proscution and the proscution had failed to even show one case where either the king or hognose snake had ever caused any injury, and that's becuase neither snake has ever caused a single serious injury to a human. The hognose snake is only toxic to reptiles and poses no threat to humans. I said that I would even try to get my snake to bite me to show that they are not dangeous. I probably can't even get the snake to bite me because it is so nonaggressive.

The prosecuter then started on the plants. He said that carnivorous plants by nature are designed to trap, kill, and consume insects, reptiles, mammals, pets or anything that it can trap. They are nondescimante killers that will kill and consume anything that is unlucky enough to find itself within it's deadly graps. He then showed where he had found reports of monkeys huge rats, birds have been found in these plants. He went on for a long time using words like deadly, dangerous ect.
I finaly got my chance to speak.
I said "I want to say again that the burdon of proof is on the prosicution and again he failed to show where any of the plants are dangeous to humans or pets. Again he failed to show a single case where a plant that I owned has ever caused a single injury to human or pet. I am asking that this case be dismissed because there is no real law against me keeping any plant, because as you can see in the noticed I was served "plants" were written in by hand. Therefore there is no law in the towns books that makes owning a plants is illegal."

The jugde said the prosicution has proved that these plants pose a potential danger, so the request for the case to be dismissed is denied.

I knew at that point the judge had bought all the nonsense the proscution had said, and I knew that I had to prove that the plants are not dangerous. So I took out a pic of a bladderwort trap that was blown up many times. I said this is the trap of a Utricularia. This is the fastest, most aggresive CP there is. It can snatch up a victim that is relatively close to it within a milisecond. The victim never even knows what hit it. I then took out a pic of one of my bladderworts and said this is the actual size of the traps. The reason you can't see any traps are because they are microscopic. There is no way that they can pose a threat to human or pet. It's just not logicly possiable. Utricularia are the only plant that has the capability to actully trap a victim without it crawling into the plant.
Then I brought out a pic of a Drosera. I explaind how sundews work and I said that the biggest sundew is olny about two inches across. So the biggest insect that a sundew will catch may be a moth.
I did the same with vft's and pings.
Because of thier size I knew I had to be careful with Sarracenias and nepenthes.
I showed some pics of Sarracenias and explained how they worked and said that the biggest animal to ever been found in a Sarracenia was a frog.
I then showed them pics of some of my nepenthes. The pics were of them hanging on my front porch. I went through all the details about them.
I brought out the letters that I had, read them to the court. I took out the two books and read form the books. Read some things I got from the internet. I said that all cp's only lure insects. Sometimes a bigger animal like a frog may become trapped. But there has never been a case where a pet of human had been harmed by them. I took out a vft and a sundew and showed them to the court, I placed it in on the the table in front of the prosecuter and asked "How in the world can these plants ever pose a threat to anybody?"

The judge asked the prosecuter if he had anything else to say. He stood up and said that I have admitted that the plants posses the ablity to lure, trap and kill. He said that I proved his case better then he ever could.
The judge asked if I had anything futher. I said no.

The judge said that it has been proven that the snakes were in violation of town ordances, ordered that they be confiscated immediatly. She then said that I proved my case with the Utricularia, but all the other cp's do have a potential to harm some pets. She also said that I showed pictures of my plants on my porch which is less than 30 feet from the road. And said that there was no barrier like a fence between the public and my plants and that showed there is a potential for somebodies pets being capured by the plants. She ordered that all of the carnivorous plants execpt for the Utricularia be confisacted and destroyed. She ordered two of the baliffs to escort me to my house and I have to give them the plants and my snakes.
The balliffs had the list that I gave the court of all my plants and they marked of every plant untill they had them all. I asked what would happen to the snakes and plants. They said they will be heald for 30 day to give me a chance to appeal. Then they will see if they can place the snakes with a reptile rescue group. They plants will be destroyed after 30 days.
I know that the plants are gone. There is no was that they will care for them. I had to dig some up from my bog outside, so they are bareroot. So even if I appeal and win all the plants will still be dead. I also have to pay court cost and a fine of $200.

I don't know what I'm going to do yet. There's no use in any of you sending me plants as a replacement. They'll just end up the same as my other plants.

That is utterly ridiculous. The legal system today is :censor: up. I am very sorry that this had to happen and I hope that something bad happens to the landlord. I hope that you have better luck than this in the future because if this happened to me I would be really mad.
 
  • #296
Holy dead thread Batman!People need to look at the dates on these posts!LOL




Jerry
 
  • #297
Well I think this pretty much takes care of this year's grand event.

God love newbies. :D
 
  • #298
Holy crap, I remember reading this 2 years ago but I never read the whole thing. I forgot about it and just now am realizing that it was an April Fools joke. >_<;
 
  • #299
If we were so good at recycling everything else, there'd be no need for landfills.
 
  • #300
Well I think this pretty much takes care of this year's grand event.

God love newbies. :D

Yes, bless their hearts :) We were all new once.

Lmao, reminds me of how many forum members it takes to change a light bulb and like the last item on the list was "A newbie to ressurect the lightbulb thread a year later to add "Me too!"

Know what my favorite part was? We had TWO people think this was for real the second time around, and one of them thought it was real AFTER the other newbie talked about figuring it out! I love it!
 
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