Making Web Money February 2022

The World’s Most Dangerous…. Plant??

There is a shrub that can grow 115 feet tall and touching this plant just once can cause you enough pain to make you consider taking your own life.

That’s the stuff of late night scary “B” movies, right?

Actually, it’s the Gympie Gympie, also known as the Stinging Bush, the Queensland Stinger or the “suicide plant.” It’s also known as the Giant Australian Stinging Tree. Yup, you knew something this crazy dangerous had to be from Australia, right?

Brush this plant with your bare skin and it delivers a painful sting via tiny hairs covering the leaves and stem which inject venom into the skin.

This pain can last for 9 MONTHS and even morphine can be ineffective against its venom.

It’s said the sensation is like being burned by hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. Serviceman Cyril Bromley fell into one of the plants during WWII training exercises and ended up strapped to a hospital bed, “as mad as a hatter.”

Another officer unknowingly used a leaf as toilet paper (OMG!) and ended up shooting himself.

But the story gets even weirder, because for some unknown crazy reason, someone in the UK thought it was a dandy idea to IMPORT this plant from hell and stick it in the ground at Lullingstone Castle and The World Garden in England.

One person commented doing something this crazy is akin to importing velociraptors, and I agree.

Here are my questions: What would possess someone to think this is a good idea? Presumably several people had to sign off on the idea…

How do you convince normally sane people to do this? And then how do you bring it from Australia to the UK? No doubt someone was hired for this express purpose. How much did they have to pay this person? What airline agreed to fly this cargo? How could The World Garden’s insurance company possibly sign off on this liability?

So many questions…

Right now you’ve got a question of your own… This is interesting, but how does ANY of this pertain to online marketing?