This from the folklore listserve.

Be aware, be very aware when messing with a boxwood.

Kitsune Miko

From Dave Barry's weekly column for Friday,
October 31, 2003: "Singing the
praises of our local news":

Alert reader Dianne Smith sent in an article from
the July 23 issue of The
Sandersville (Georgia) Progress. On the front page
is the following
headline: "Local woman sues doctor after twig grows
on leg." . . . The story
concerns a Sandersville woman who
was treated by an emergency-room doctor for a cut
she received on her thigh
when "she fell into some boxwood shrubbery in her
yard." The story states that
nine months later, the woman went to another doctor,
and - I am not making
this quote up - "he not
iced a stem had surfaced on her leg with five
thriving green leaves." The
doctor "concluded the stem was alive and feasting"
on the woman's leg.
.
Needless to say, the woman is suing for pain and
suffering, plus medical
expenses, which presumably include pruning.

[A quick web search was unable to immediately
confirm the validity of this
news item. --BE]


Bill Ellis
Associate Professor, English and American Studies
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PA 18202
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