{"id":154994,"date":"2024-10-16T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/prickly-mayor-bans-cactus-plants-in-buildings\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T12:49:07","slug":"prickly-mayor-bans-cactus-plants-in-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/prickly-mayor-bans-cactus-plants-in-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Prickly mayor bans cactus plants in buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A German town has banned the humble cactus from the town hall, schools and nurseries.<\/p>\n

The mayor of Plettenberg, near Dusseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia, banned the spiky plants from municipal buildings after a man required medical attention from injuring himself on a cactus in a school building.<\/p>\n

“What was an injury to the adult man’s arm could easily have been a serious injury to the face for a small child in the same place,” the council said, according to local media.<\/p>\n

The council reportedly said the nature of the injury could not be disclosed “due to the need to protect the personal rights and privacy of our staff”.<\/p>\n

In a letter to local state workers, Plettenberg mayor Ulrich Schulte wrote: “Due to the current situation, all official and private cacti (Cactaceae) must be removed from municipal buildings immediately.”<\/p>\n

The mayor said the ban was being undertaken because such plants could “cause ugly injuries”.<\/p>\n

He said cacti would be banned not only in schools and nurseries but from all municipal spaces.<\/p>\n

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“Even if this order seems adventurous, excessive, superfluous or ridiculous to some employees, it has a serious background in terms of protecting the health of all employees and especially children in schools and daycare centres,” the mayor added.<\/p>\n

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A spokesperson for the council told local media the town had since “successfully implemented the cactus ban”.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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