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Monday, July 10, 2006
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A Few Missing Details

Dear Raid,

It's very nice of you that you have decided to create a product called "Earth Options Wasp & Hornet Killer", which kills with plant-based ingredients.  But don't you think its a bit ironic that you're making a product which is supposedly taking caring of Mother Nature while killing one of her inhabitants?  I mean really... I don't care what's in it or how it does the job, as long as it does the job... which thankfully this did.  By the way, the "natural clove scent" is a nice touch, especially as the spray is blown back towards my face.  I'm sure the Paper Wasp Queen had thought someone lit up a nice potpourri candle as she was grasping for life.

As far as the rather short instruction on the can... instructing the user to "Stand at a safe distance from the nest and not directly underneath" is a rather useless piece of advice if you don't say what the range of the spray is.  Are we talking 1 foot or 5 feet or 10 feet?  I'd say that's a rather important detail, because frankly... my safe distance is exactly the maximum range of the spray.

I know the nest was brand new, and only about the size of a softball, but I used the entire can, because I really have little confidence in a pesticide made from "plant-based ingredients".  In case you're wondering why I bought it then... well... I didn't.  My mom did, since it was a nest in her backyard.  When you're advertising a pesticide, you don't have to be afraid to talk about the deadly poisons it has... that's what we want it for.  If I had gone shopping for a pesticide, this is not the product I would have chosen.

Regards,

A Concerned Consumer

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