the tiny victims of fishing related violence

Here is a bit of Science for you...

Last night, I sent Elizabeth to her room to put on her pajamas. A few minutes later, I heard a bloodcurdling cry followed by hysterical sobbing.

I ran in there, and she clutched her tiny Polly Pockets in her hands, inconsolable. "LOOK what the fish bakes did to my Pollys'!!!" she cried. "And these were my most favoritest outfits!!" cry cry cry!!

I was kind of bewildered. Her Polly Pockets' clothes were melted, sticky like someone had stuck a lighter to them... I asked her, "Elizabeth? Why did you say your fish baits did this?"

"B-b-b-b-buh-because I was playing like my Polly's were being attacked by worms and when I came back, their clothes were mel - mel - melted!!"

So I go and ask Marty. "Is it possible that artificial fishing worms can melt Polly Pocket's clothes??"

"Of course it is honey. Fish baits are toxic. Back in the olden days, that was a big deal because you had to remember to wrap your worms in plastic or they would eat through your tackle box. The tackle boxes today are treated with a special coating to prevent that."

My thinking, Why would you give a little kid toxic worms?????

I had no idea they were toxic.

I remember playing with them when my dad took me fishing. He would fish from the bank of the Robertson's pond, and I would pull all the pretty worms out of the tackle box and give them names.

So, after taking this photo for evidence, we are having a double funeral for Polly and Polly. They can't be saved because the plastic is almost liquefied.

Godspeed, Ms and Ms Pocket.