Market for shamrocks high, feds say chan eil
In Chantilly, Virginia, federal agents at Dulles International Airport have seized shamrock seeds from happy travelers from Ireland. There were coming to America to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on Tuesday, March 17.
According to a Fox News report, Customs and Border Patrol spokesman Stephen Sapp said the agents “targeted the Aer Lingus flight on Thursday and had been searching for passengers carrying prohibited meat.” Sixteen packets of shamrock seeds were found mixed in amongst offending pork and beef.
Aer Lingus? Is that Colonel Angus’s favorite airline? WARNING: Don’t click that link if you are easily offended. Please… don’t!
Uh, excuse me… do you have a permit for that?
Both the meat and shamrock seeds were destroyed. Because that’s what feds do. They also nod like bobbleheads when the Center For Responsible Lending froths at the mouth about payday loans.
However, might they have considered the economic import of said shamrock seeds? Clearly, the luck of the Irish could aid this country’s economy. And think of the seeds. What other time of year would they be so in demand? I’m not saying they would make a huge dent in our economic troubles – like legalizing marijuana in California may – but would they honestly hurt?
But Steve, lots of oxalis can be toxic!
Sure. If large quantities of shamrock plants are consumed, it can be deadly, or at least cause liver damage. But come on – THEY’RE FUN! Robert and Hoberley Schuler write for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune that shamrocks have been the symbol for St. Patrick’s Day for religious reasons (three leaves, Trinity, GET IT? HUH!?) Trifolium repens, Medicago lupulins and Oxalis acetosella are the trinity of shamrock plants, and you can find them at your local home and garden nursery.
Maybe the feds are anti-shamrock seeds because the plant could be considered a weed. And we know that the word “weed” leads respectable people down the path to madness, right?
But you are interested in the exceptional. Yes. CLICK HERE to see the true meaning of the green shamrock seeds contain. They are a true asset, and unlike what banks are hocking, they aren’t toxic assets…
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There hasn’t been too much luck for the Irish lately – their economy is as bad as ours is. Massive layoffs, they are into double digit unemployment nationally, and they’ve just made their own bailout. The somewhat bright spot on the affair is that their national rugby team just might win the 6 Nations tournament, and their first grand slam of it in about 50 years, but that doesn’t put people back to work. (Just the English team to shame.)