Environmentally Unsafe Sex

[greenstorm]

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/thursday.handleigh/unusual/other/condom-reef.htm

Edit: below, bluewaterlilies tells me this is an urban legend, and that's good.

Continued edit: The other day, someone posted a picture to the gardening forum asking what this weed was that had infested their lawn. The answer: it's grass, the seed-head: it is your lawn. Now no blame attached to this particular poor person, as I know a lot of people didn't grow up looking hard at grass and thinking about it. I'm feeling really, erm... culture shocked, or something, though. If there are people who don't know what grass going to seed is, why not a reef of condoms?

Comments

[cz_unit]

yuck

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

I guess they all had to go *somewhere*...

[bluewaterlilies.livejournal.com]

It makes for a colorful mental image, but it's an urban legend. ;)

http://www.snopes.com/risque/penile/reef.asp

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

Thank god.

[estrellada.livejournal.com]

I do think this is probably an urban legend: ALL the world's used condoms? in ONE place?

When I was in grade 10, we visited the Anacis Island Sewage plant as part of social studies. (My teacher had a...sense of humour.) I remember seeing little tied-off condoms floating in the pools of untreated waste. I haven't flushed a condom since.

[wik.livejournal.com]

I will add to that the person who pulled out pine trees, then didn't know what the HUGE RED ROOTS were.