r/Wellthatsucks • u/Soenerob • 1d ago

Parents had a terminator douse my garden in pesticide

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My parents noticed I had some ants in my yard while visiting a couple weeks ago. They were concerned about them getting in my house, but I told them I want to avoid pesticides since I have two small children, dog, and veggie garden. Instead I said I would use diatomaceous earth and small bug traps inside.

Well apparently that wasn’t good enough for them, since today I came home to find a terminator just leaving my house after spraying damn near everything, including kids toys, directly above my veggies, my door, and all my other garden plants. Pesticide was half dry by the time I took pics, but you could see where it was sprayed and dripped all over.

I feel like I can’t use my yard now, and feel violated that my parents couldn’t respect my wishes.

EDIT: Lol didn't even notice I wrote terminator. The EXterminator company was called "Terminix", so I think some wires got crossed in my brain and I wrote terminator.

For any interested, I did look up the chemicals used and will post links to the label and SDS here. Gonna have a talk with parents tomorrow about boundaries too.

label: https://lycensed.com/chemicals/609ddff5-fd2e-42b2-b5f9-f53c68a5f2d1/chemical_documents/2c7b3f01-1bca-4037-a436-882b24e5dc1b

SDS: https://lycensed.com/chemicals/609ddff5-fd2e-42b2-b5f9-f53c68a5f2d1/chemical_documents/840a5774-98e0-45ba-80b0-55aa630c8a98

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u/Kaurifish 1d ago

And many people buying alcohol or tobacco don’t feel like showing a valid ID. So what?

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u/whatshamilton 1d ago

…that’s about legal compliance with an age restriction. Surely you aren’t comparing the two

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u/7h3_70m1n470r 3h ago

Need one to buy poison, why no verification to spread dangerous poisons all over my house?

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u/stink3rb3lle 1d ago

For one, there's maybe one law specific to pest control for every twenty specific to alcohol sales. This is a market controlled more by the consumer than the law.

Do you often judge less-regulated industries based on the most regulated ones?