New of the Wierd

From: Steve Clancy (sclancy@uci.edu)
Date: Tue May 20 1997 - 12:41:05 PDT

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Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 12:41:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Clancy <sclancy@uci.edu>
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Subject: New of the Wierd

Greetings.

I just found this on the "News of the Wierd" Webpage
(http://www.uexpress.com:80/ups/weird/html/states/ca4.html).

Is this true? I don't remember it being discussed here, but I could have
missed it.

July 16, 1995

         In April, three members of San Francisco's Bay Area Carnivorous
         Plant Society pleaded guilty to smuggling
         more than 200 rare plants into the U.S. from Asia. Said another
         society member, who speculated on their
         motive: "Carnivorous plants can really give you an obsession. ...
         I started out with a Venus's flytrap 35 years
         ago. ... You get one and you want another one."

I hope I'm not opening a can-o'-worms.

--steve

Steve Clancy, M.L.S., Science Library, University of California, Irvine
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