http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2012/07/11/pkg-mn-lawn-accidentally-killed.kare

ooooooooooooooooppps

7/16/2012 2:48:12 PM

self-pwnt

7/16/2012 2:50:30 PM

Dude should have read the packaging instead of trusting the kid in the store.

7/16/2012 2:50:35 PM

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"on accident"

7/16/2012 2:51:10 PM

fine,
accidentally ... people from JOCO dont know the difference

7/16/2012 2:53:38 PM

pwnt.

leave home.

7/16/2012 2:54:06 PM

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"people from JOCO dont know the difference"

I just surveyed everyone on east wellon street and confirmed this

7/16/2012 3:01:57 PM

7/16/2012 3:09:15 PM

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"40K square foot lawn"

Who the fuck measures their lawn in square feet?

7/16/2012 3:10:47 PM

only place i ever see it listed that way is when looking at MLS listings. usually shows it both as acreage and if fractional, then in sq feet as well.

7/16/2012 3:16:04 PM

to get acres, you have to figure out the square footage first (duh).

7/16/2012 3:22:12 PM

Haha. Use poison on your lawn, get results. No sympathy.

7/16/2012 3:22:25 PM

^^

sure, but i think the other dude's point is that it's an odd measure to use when speaking colloquially. It would be just as odd if someone used hectares.

people have a frame of reference for an acre when talking about land. when you talk about a plot of land in some other measure, it trips people up.

[Edited on July 16, 2012 at 3:38 PM. Reason : .]

7/16/2012 3:38:17 PM

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"Use poison on your lawn, get results. No sympathy."

+1

7/16/2012 4:01:20 PM

thats what you call a...........

LAWN PWN

7/16/2012 4:01:44 PM

he needs to call this guy


http://grassisgreenersite.com/Prices.html

7/16/2012 4:11:21 PM

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"It would be just as odd if someone used hectares. "

I, for one, do not find hectares just as odd as square footage when describing someone's lawn. But thenagain, this is Murrica. I sure as well won't conform to the oppressive metric system used by the rest of the world.

1 acre = 43560 sq ft. Guess it wouldn't have been accurate to estimate it to an acre.

7/16/2012 4:12:52 PM

It's much less dramatic when you say he killed one acre of grass. Then no one cares. But holy shit 40k square feet must be so much!!!1!!1!

7/16/2012 4:16:04 PM

7/16/2012 4:17:09 PM

a fine example of putting way too much trust in minimum wage employees

7/16/2012 4:42:15 PM

Regular people make mistakes all the time and nobody cares, but when some dumbass with a nice home fucks up his lawn it is newsworthy to CNN.com.

Lawn care specialists everywhere are laughing.

[Edited on July 16, 2012 at 6:02 PM. Reason : s]

7/16/2012 6:01:39 PM

the packaging did look a little misleading compared to the weed killer of the same brand

[Edited on July 16, 2012 at 6:17 PM. Reason : ^in fairness, i think it was the charitable event they hold every year more than "a nice house"]

7/16/2012 6:17:21 PM

At least he doesn't have to mow it anymore

7/16/2012 6:29:49 PM

Someone should make a package for this stuff to look like a soda bottle ... just so that this douchnozzle will drink it and

7/16/2012 6:37:15 PM

FUCK YO COUCH LAWN

7/16/2012 6:42:15 PM

7/16/2012 7:01:20 PM

7/16/2012 7:04:03 PM

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"Who the fuck measures their lawn in square feet? "

This is the unit of measurement landscapers and lawn care professional use. All requirements for amount of seed, fertilizer, and chemicals to use in a certain area are based off square feet. You only see acres and hectares when in agricultural settings.

Frankly, this is not the homeowner's or the manufacture's fault, if he went to a retailer and got advice from employees, then it is on them (even though there's nothing he can do about it). Again, this is another good reason that people with little to no experience with lawn care or chemical applications have no business trying to do it themselves. It will be at least 2 weeks if not a month (depending on the rate he used and active ingredient of the herbicide) before he can even think about aerating reseeding, much less laying sod. Laying 40,000sqft of sod in the middle of summer? Expensive and risky even on the best ground.

7/17/2012 10:39:58 AM

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haha, this was my exact thought as well, though I couldn't remember than name.

7/17/2012 10:42:03 AM

^cares too much about lawns.

7/17/2012 10:43:43 AM

this is funny except for the fundraiser being cancelled

7/17/2012 10:47:07 AM

[Edited on July 17, 2012 at 10:48 AM. Reason : ..]

7/17/2012 10:47:51 AM

50/50 blame here on him and the employees. Company that sold the product did a good enough job of informing the consumer.

What an idiot. For someone with what looked like a really nice yard, you've gotta perform a little more due diligence to read the peel off labels. And it was pretty clear if you looked at both bottles that one kills just weeds and the other probably does a lot more (I think it said something like "double play").

Sucks....looked like he had a pretty sweet law before this. I think I'd cry for a couple days.

7/17/2012 10:48:02 AM

dude can't read obviously.

and lol at cancelling a fundraiser because your grass is dead.

7/17/2012 10:58:33 AM

yeah, i mean, whenever I'm looking at herbicides, for that very reason, I'm always extremely careful to read the label if i'm buying something new. If i'm still not sure about what I'm buying, there's enough competing products out there that I just select something else. I can't feel too sorry for the guy.

7/17/2012 10:59:31 AM

The front of the label on the one he used said lawn and weed killer.

7/17/2012 11:04:16 AM

Wtf does he think CONTROL means?

7/17/2012 11:07:30 AM

From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/rob-olson-lawn_n_1676004.html
Not sure if alias...

7/17/2012 11:59:51 AM

It's an old guy whose message board avatar is him posing with an acoustic guitar. NOW I UNDERSTAND.

7/17/2012 12:02:56 PM

why is this news

7/17/2012 12:19:44 PM