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I noticed this in the mcdonalds parking lot, so I poked around in it with a stick to try to clear the drainage path.

I came to the conclusion that it has no outlet at all, it’s a permanent stagnant pond. It stinks pretty bad.

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 106 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Contact your local mosquito control agency and report it, I'm sure they'll be impressed and might even get the ball rolling towards making McDonalds do something to resolve the issue.

In the meantime, post a professional looking printed and laminated sign that says something like "MOSQUITO POND - Please protect the local mosquito population - Thanks, McSquitoes"

[–] Steve@startrek.website 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I will do all of this

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Awesome, let us know how it goes in the long run, and make sure to post a photo of whatever sign you come up with.. 👍

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Contact your local mosquito control agency

Y’all have mosquito control agencies?!

[–] Steve@startrek.website 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sure do! They even have an open house every year and the kids get to sit in their helicopter.

Edit:

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why do they need a helicopter? More importantly, do they call it The Skeeter Beater?

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's to disrupt the mating cycle. When you fly around in The Skeeter Beater it sets an unobtainable standard for male mosquitos and the females lose interest.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Genuinely don't know if you're kidding or not. Movie idea: aliens do this to humanity.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plot twist: they already create unobtainable standards with celebrities.

[–] silver@das-eck.haus 2 points 1 week ago

Ryan Gosling is actually a fish alien

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Here's a local agency https://mmcd.org/

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

The drop pellets into ponds, marshes, etc that disrupts the mating cycle. They may also release sterile males.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here in south Mississippi, absolutely!

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We could certainly use one here in Coastal Carolina, but we’re just left to fend for ourselves…

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What part? We have that here around Sacramento.

Edit- I'm an idiot... I could've sworn you said coastal California.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I guess trying to control mosquitos is officially woke.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's common in the tropics where mosquitoes can carry deadly viruses

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We have them in Minnesota too.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oof, stay warm up there, and stay safe..

Fuck ICE, except the kind of ice that freezes the mosquitoes...

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

except the kind of ice that freezes the mosquitoes.

Even that kind of ice sucks. The mosquitoes that live in those frozen places thrive because all the ice melts into ponds and lakes all over, creating breeding grounds for the mosquitoes whose eggs can survive freezing.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh? Well maybe my elders weren't as well educated, as that's what I was always taught, that hard freezes supposedly kill off the eggs. Fuck I dunno, if you go out of the city and into the sticks, the skeeters are hella crazy for blood!

I dunno, but here in south Mississippi of all places, I've probably only been bitten by mosquitoes like 6 times in the past 10 years. But the retired mosquito control guy is covered in what's basically obvious skin issues and even skin cancer, likely from the chemicals...

☹️

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I live in Texas, so any amount of water is an instant mosquito source. I legit made a "mosquito pond" for the little bastards to lay their eggs, which provides an excellent food source for the cheap ass minnows i stock the pond with ...

In the meantime, post a professional looking printed and laminated sign that says something like “MOSQUITO POND - Please protect the local mosquito population - Thanks, McSquitoes”

Isn't that the entirety of e-arth?

Source: Agent Wendy Pleakley

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's a permanent stagnant pond. It stinks pretty bad

Sounds like an average McDonalds to me.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

Corporate decided stagnant ponds were cheaper than Play Areas.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Just typical laziness. Sees problem. Doesn't solve problem. Complains about problem.

McDonald's has straws.

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Put a # TODO comment on it

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

This is the way. Make sure that you don't attempt to fix it, or even attempt to make it easier to fix, just add the #TODO.

[–] thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Weird. Is that a culvert at the top of the image? It makes sense that runoff from the parking lot would terminate in a drainage ditch, but why it would have sidewalls like that is beyond me. Maybe it was a misunderstanding from the construction crew.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Looks to me like this is a "just get it off the parking lot, we don't care what happens to it after that" drain.

[–] Ifeelya@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I bet the pool area was only supposed to have a backstop wall the prevent erosion of the ditch, but the designer didn't feel like it was necessary to detail it. Seems easy enough to fix with a concrete saw and a sledgehammer though.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Yes it is in a drainage ditch

[–] FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Nah that's actually a half pipe for skater gnomes.

The d is silent

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where's a lawn chair when you need it?

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You spelled toilet seat wrong.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 points 1 week ago (10 children)

It should have been filled with gravel. The kind fine enough to be used in an aquarium.

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[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 week ago

Why doesn’t it just

🤷‍♂️

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

That is not a drain, it is technically now a sump.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You'd have to dig down to know

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