deadly nightshade

Yesterday we were in the backyard, and my mother in law, who works in a nature reserve type place, and knows her way around the great outdoors, noticed some weeds that we have growing all around our fence. She told my wife that these were called Deadly Nightshade, and are very poisonous. If someone were to eat the berries, which Jonah was playing with at the time, they would first get all loopy, and then die. I believe it's three berries are lethal. In addition to this the plant also acts like Poison Ivy and can make you itchy all over.

This morning, being that football was cancelled, Nat and I, with gloves on our hand, started yanking this stuff out of the ground. I have wanted to get rid of it anyways because it's an ugly weed, but I just never got around to it.

Now, no disrespect to my mother in law, but I have a hard time believing that the stuff we pulled out of the ground was Deadly Nightshade(Despite the fact that mu fingers are a bit itchy). I think if there are highly poisonous berries growing in our yard, there would be a few dead children. The past few families that lived here had kids, our neighbors have kids, I can't imagine that now one of those kids, tried to eat these berries. But that's just my opinion - Either way, I'm glad that we pulled them out of the ground.