Comments on: Lettuce-Blaming Update

By: lindsey

lindsey — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:33:32 +0000

This whole thread reminds me of this time I saw this deer right near a McDonalds/Super K-mart that had gotten hit by a car seconds earlier, breaking both of it’s front legs. Apparently the deer wandered into very busy mid-afternoon traffic by this McDonalds to go eat something in the road.

I’m not saying what’s right either way! It just reminded me of that experience. I think McDonald’s lettuce isn’t really lettuce at all though, because it comes from McDonalds, where nothing is truly food hahahaha!

By: Frumious B.

Frumious B. — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:51:54 +0000

The little bunnies who came out to eat it got run over by the cars. Seriously, don’t toss vegetable matter thinking it will decompose or be eaten by the local fauna. It will decompose, in few months. Meanwhile the rest of us get to look at a pile of detritus which is not nearly big enough to get a good compost going. Animals go get killed when they venture out into car laden areas. Maybe it’s the bunny eating the lettuce who gets hit, maybe it’s the red tailed hawk diving down to eat the bunny. Use trashcans. Carry it home to throw it away if you must. Teach your children to do the same.

By: Ledasmom

Ledasmom — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:22:06 +0000

There have been rabbits outside our local McDonald’s, so I would definitely go with the rabbit-feeding excuse, although next time it might be nice to include the drink and toy.

By: Ms Kate

Ms Kate — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:01:01 +0000

Lettuce spray.

By: anne

anne — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:38:59 +0000

Well… the dorkiness of going after someone who has thrown leaves into the wind (so to speak) might be overshadowed by a person who would seek salad at a McDonald’s.

I’m just saying.

By: kcb

kcb — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:39:18 +0000

The article doesn’t say what kind of lettuce she flung. Frisee, perhaps?

By: Summer

Summer — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:17:16 +0000

I’m glad to add lettuce-flinging to my list of anti-system behaviors.

Not that anyone will really notice out here in the sticks. People leave trash in their yards all the time.

By: Sylvanite

Sylvanite — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:27:34 +0000

Biodegradable, hell. I’m sure some macroscopic critters would get to eating it forthwith. Maybe she should say she was feeding the bunnies.

By: kathy a

kathy a — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:47:11 +0000

hey, i have some minerals right in my yard!

this story has it all. the leaf-flinging occurred at a wal-mart [an even bigger corp. than mc d’s]. it was a little bit of organic stuff — less than an apple core. she was convicted in absentia! they had a trial and she wasn’t there, so she lost — does this court system have too much time on its hands, or what?

at least we know the homeland is secure against lettuce-flingers, though.

By: Ron Sullivan

Ron Sullivan — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:11:34 +0000

Wheelomatic, please. That’s “au naturelle mineralle.” And they sell by weight.