Applicator taken to task

No sooner have we recovered from the council's draconian, incomprehensible, unenforceable pesticide bylaw (20% of dandelions etc.), than we have to undergo another chastisement, this time from one of the self-anointed guardians of the planet, the licensed applicators (who of course can do no wrong (and not much good, in my experience).

My, what a bunch of village idiots we are around here. Left to our own devices, we (all of us, not just some) will use chemicals at our discretion (read irresponsibly) and tip the remainder into the sewer. Unfortunately I do not have this opportunity, not being on a sewer, so I have to pour it into my well. As for disposing of the used containers, I find they provide excellent storage for my home made beer.

Does Perras really think we peasants do not know about three-inch grass and the rest of the stuff mentioned in his rant? And what makes him think that we give a plugged nickel for what IPM stands for? Early afternoon, perhaps?

Regarding watering, out here in the boondocks we have a saying: "You can tell who's on a well - they have brown lawns."

And can he be aware that the fringe environmentalist clique who run this town regard "manicured lawns" as a shortcut to destroying the planet ?

Finally, it is sad once again to see a lesser mind criticizing a person with a PhD for lack of knowledge, compared with, say, a licensed applicator. Whatever one may think about people with a PhD, their doctorate represents the results of years of hard work, research and the acquisition of knowledge. If Perras wishes to pursue this line of attack, he is skating on thin ice. I would refer him to Pope, who pre-empted him by a century or two, and who clearly had people like him in mind:

"A little learning is a dang'rous thing.

Drink deep! Or quaff not the Pierian spring."

John C. Tysoe