Friday, April 1, 2011

The Dangers of Botany

APRIL 1st NEWS ITEM: Shawnee State Park and Forest issues a HIGH DANGER Alert for preoccupied botanical enthusiasts (PBEs.) Several botany types have been found road-killed along forest road #1, where they were worshiping the first buds of spring, unaware of oncoming traffic. Please be alert while driving through Ohio's natural areas, and be on the look-out for the unpredictable behaviors of PBEs. ................................................photos provided by Greg Cornett Two unclaimed bodies, were found along forest Rd. # 1 in Scioto county. If you or someone you know is missing a botany enthusiast, please notify local officials. These unidentified nature lovers wander about, taking photos and sniffing flowers... completely unaware of traffic.

If you must take close up botanical photos- please use the buddy-system:

have a fellow botanist watch for on-coming traffic.


Only you can prevent roadside botanical tragedies!!

6 comments:

  1. Love it Cheryl! Thanks for the chuckle!!

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  2. great story for a botanist! A botanist with a sense of humor! Thanks!

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  3. This may be the one advanatge birders have over the plant folks- I have never seen birders laying in the road!

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  4. Birders may not lay down in the road, Cheryl, but we do tend to wander around without looking at where we're going (too busy looking up!), so we could just as easily fall into a ditch or walk off a cliff! Oh, the hazards we all must face...! :)

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  5. At east they got that one good picture! You also have to be aware of wildlife enthusiasts, who are constantly looking at the side of the road while driving instead of at the road itself...making them oblivious of traffic too.

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  6. That is exactly what we look like when we are out in the field, and it really could happen!

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