Local California Government Wants to Keep Garlic Plants Because They Keep the Vampires Away 318 Whitney Jefferson 01/07/10 05:37PM Filed to: Localnews Localnews Vampires News Flowers Nature TV Video Lawndale, California has quite a pungent issue at hand—garlic flowers. The city planted them eight years ago to keep vampires away and now are discussing paying thousands of dollars to remove them. Why? KTLA investigates. [via Videogum]