More so than that they poisoned my childs pool!
Me and my gal had planted a nice 9ft by 8ft vegetable garden about two feet from our backyard fence (my yard is very steep and the only flat portion is towards the back near the alley) with tomatoes, bell peppers, onion, garlic, green onions, snow peas, spinach & mustard and for the last two 1/2 to three months we have been nurturing it into a very healthy crop, we looked in on it every day weeding it and doing extensive online research on several good gardening tips and methods, it was our first vegetable garden and we were excited as it was doing so well......this morning as we went to work at 6am we both looked in on it and it was doing fine but at 3pm when we got home we stopped by and there was this brownish oily residue that smelled like used motor oil all over the honeysuckle on our back fence, on all of our vegetables (even on the spinach and mustard over eight feet away from the fence!) and in our two year olds blow up pool!
The honeysuckle and entire garden were wilting and after Jenni grabbed the hose to try and wash off the stuff the now browning leaves on the plants just disintegrated after the water hit them!
Needless to say were were enraged at the whole thing...I mean this crap was in our KID'S POOL! So we started making phone calls that got us nowhere so we drove down to city hall and got some more "we'll get back to you on this" runaround so we went straight to the streets department where we just caught the man in charge before he left, he tried to give us some bullshit about "some over spray occurs" but when we pointed out that the honeysuckle wasn't overlapping and isn't a "WEED", that the garden was sprayed over 8 feet into our yard and that the herbicide got into the pool he was a lot less defensive and told us that this sort of thing was done by people serving out their community service....we freaked out, why the hell are they giving dangerous chemicals to non-professionals TO BEGIN WITH!?!?
They are going to replace everything or get sued and they know it.
Me and my gal had planted a nice 9ft by 8ft vegetable garden about two feet from our backyard fence (my yard is very steep and the only flat portion is towards the back near the alley) with tomatoes, bell peppers, onion, garlic, green onions, snow peas, spinach & mustard and for the last two 1/2 to three months we have been nurturing it into a very healthy crop, we looked in on it every day weeding it and doing extensive online research on several good gardening tips and methods, it was our first vegetable garden and we were excited as it was doing so well......this morning as we went to work at 6am we both looked in on it and it was doing fine but at 3pm when we got home we stopped by and there was this brownish oily residue that smelled like used motor oil all over the honeysuckle on our back fence, on all of our vegetables (even on the spinach and mustard over eight feet away from the fence!) and in our two year olds blow up pool!
The honeysuckle and entire garden were wilting and after Jenni grabbed the hose to try and wash off the stuff the now browning leaves on the plants just disintegrated after the water hit them!
Needless to say were were enraged at the whole thing...I mean this crap was in our KID'S POOL! So we started making phone calls that got us nowhere so we drove down to city hall and got some more "we'll get back to you on this" runaround so we went straight to the streets department where we just caught the man in charge before he left, he tried to give us some bullshit about "some over spray occurs" but when we pointed out that the honeysuckle wasn't overlapping and isn't a "WEED", that the garden was sprayed over 8 feet into our yard and that the herbicide got into the pool he was a lot less defensive and told us that this sort of thing was done by people serving out their community service....we freaked out, why the hell are they giving dangerous chemicals to non-professionals TO BEGIN WITH!?!?
They are going to replace everything or get sued and they know it.