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Mistakes are made. In related news...

Lawn care error kills most of Ohio college's grass

http://www.wral.com/lawn-care-error-kills-most-of-ohio-colle...



I can understand the Embry problem a lot more simply because the distance between the decision and implementation of the decision is not that far.

How on earth do you "accidentally" load up enough weed killer to treat 54 acres of grass and never realize its the wrong stuff?


How do you click/not-click the button in SCCM...? How are these two events any different?


Haha this is great. How did you find this?

Just to clarify for the passersby, it isn't the University of Ohio, rather, Findlay University


Coincidently on the local news website.

> Findlay University did not release the name of the company that made the mistake but is working with the business' insurance company to pay for it to be fixed.

Findlay apparently doesn't value transparency as much as Emory.

> The university says grass was killed on as many as 54 of the campus' 72 acres.


Makes you wonder what chemicals are going into lawns generally.

One of the lessons from my college days (informally acquired, take with appropriate quantities of salt) was that walking barefoot was as much a risk for chemical exposure as puncture wounds.




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