# The Anderson Island Flower Fairy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 10, 2006, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anderson-island-flower-fairy/343824 "2006-02-10T05:45:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anderson-island-flower-fairy/343824/1 "2006-02-10T05:45:54Z")
Or Random Acts of Kindness: [the Floral Edition](http://www.andersonisland.net/article_read.asp?id=16) The Fairy makes a few people nervous but overall, what a sweet, sweet thing to do! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anderson-island-flower-fairy/343824/2 "2006-02-10T06:27:19Z")
Cool. Might be a little dicier to do that on McNeil Island. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anderson-island-flower-fairy/343824/3 "2006-02-10T18:04:09Z")
LOL! MacNeil is just to the north of Anderson Island, of course. **Dateline, MacNeil Island State Penetentiary** –Someone has been sneaking _into_ the prison without alerting personnel, dogs or security devices just to leave flowers for various inmates. A few of them are spooked about this but others are touched by the mysterious person’s thoughtfulness. An inmate who goes by the name of Snake said, “I’m going to death row next week so finding a vase of flowers at my cell door really made my day. I probably will never knew who the Flower Fairy is but if you drop by tonight, I really would like to thank you in person. I’d also like to ask you a favor. Please get me out of here! I don’t know how you do it but please, I don’t wanna DIE here. Get me OUT! I’ll go insane on Death Row, please let me _liiivee_…!” And on to other news… ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anderson-island-flower-fairy/343824/4 "2006-02-10T18:09:48Z")
Now _that’s_ inspiring. ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anderson-island-flower-fairy/343824/5 "2006-02-10T18:15:39Z")
I thought the McNeil Island pen was closed years ago-? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anderson-island-flower-fairy/343824/6 "2006-02-10T20:14:00Z")
Well, it was years ago that I lived near there. And from a web search, it looks as though it’s still open, but changed from federal to state a while ago. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anderson-island-flower-fairy/343824/7 "2006-02-11T00:55:41Z")
Just one problem: Snake would be in Walla Walla, not McNeil. (Actually, at one time the AIFF _could_ have worked McNeil. My great-grandfather had a farm on the island up to the time when the Feds kicked all the civilians off. My mother used to spend her summers there.) ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anderson-island-flower-fairy/343824/8 "2006-02-11T01:26:30Z")
> [@Tikki](#): > > An inmate who goes by the name of Snake said, \*\*"I’m going to death row next week \*\* so finding a vase of flowers at my cell door really made my day. He was being transferred. Dang me for hijacking my own thead anyway.