removing unused vars and throwing the errors

                   
|Q            |A  |
|---          |---|
|Bug Fix?     |n  |
|New Feature? |n  |
|BC Breaks?   |n  |
|Deprecations?|n  |
|Tests Pass?  |n  |
|Fixed Tickets|   |
|License      |MIT|
|Doc PR       |   |
                   


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Right, it was clearly broken before. But what was I trying to do? ;) Chances are I was trying to account for *something* by not letting those errors bubble up outright. I'll have to think on it.