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.
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”
I think I will do all of this
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… 👍
Contact your local mosquito control agency
Y’all have mosquito control agencies?!
Sure do! They even have an open house every year and the kids get to sit in their helicopter.
Edit:
Why do they need a helicopter? More importantly, do they call it “The Skeeter Beater?”
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.
Genuinely don’t know if you’re kidding or not. Movie idea: aliens do this to humanity.
Here’s a local agency https://mmcd.org/
Plot twist: they already create unobtainable standards with celebrities.
Ryan Gosling is actually a fish alien
The drop pellets into ponds, marshes, etc that disrupts the mating cycle. They may also release sterile males.
It’s common in the tropics where mosquitoes can carry deadly viruses
We have them in Minnesota too.
Oof, stay warm up there, and stay safe…
Fuck ICE, except the kind of ice that freezes the mosquitoes…
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.
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…
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Here in south Mississippi, absolutely!
We could certainly use one here in Coastal Carolina, but we’re just left to fend for ourselves…
What part? We have that here around Sacramento.
Edit- I’m an idiot… I could’ve sworn you said coastal California.
I guess trying to control mosquitos is officially woke.
I thought they said coastal California. It said Carolina. My bad.
Also, controlling mosquitoes is def woke. They are the deadliest animal on the planet. Despite ICE thinking it would be anyone slightly off-white.
Dry ice is definitely white…
https://www.doityourself.com/stry/how-to-keep-mosquitoes-at-bay-with-dry-ice
This is how our skeeter control works.
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 …
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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
it’s a permanent stagnant pond. It stinks pretty bad
Sounds like an average McDonalds to me.
Corporate decided stagnant ponds were cheaper than Play Areas.
Drink it you coward
Just typical laziness. Sees problem. Doesn’t solve problem. Complains about problem.
McDonald’s has straws.
The d is silent
Nah that’s actually a half pipe for skater gnomes.
That is not a drain, it is technically now a sump.
Put a # TODO comment on it
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes it is in a drainage ditch
Why doesn’t it just
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This is why I always carry liquid hand soap
Where’s a lawn chair when you need it?
You spelled toilet seat wrong.
It should have been filled with gravel. The kind fine enough to be used in an aquarium.
Or, now hear me out…
Cement a toilet seat on top of it.
I though the idea was to remove the stink?
LOL, you think McDonald’s won’t notice if people start pranking them like that? It’ll end up forcing them to do something to fix the drainage issue…
They just gonna erect an outhouse around the toilet.
Hahahahahaha!
Goddamn I needed that laugh to help start the year! 💩🚽
Said nothing to that point. I do think they would just remove the toilet seat.
If you have concrete to spare, you could fill the hole.
Blast that shit online and shame the fuck out of McDonalds, while explaining the lack of drainage, like WTF is this, a toilet?
Sure they might remove the toilet seat, but the video would go viral and someone else would just come along and cement in a new seat, until McDonalds got shamed into oblivion until they actually fixed the issue.
Or, ya know, do like my first comment suggested and report it to mosquito control, while posting a satire sign saying “MOSQUITO POND - Please protect the local mosquito population - Thanks, McSquitoes”
Any which way, shame the fuck out of McDonalds until they properly fix the issue. Online viral video shame can go a long way, plus McDonalds can totally afford to fix it anyways.
Do nothing and nothing gets done. I do believe OP plans to do something about this…
Sure, they totally can. My only intent with the original comment was that mcds could have spent less than $5 and avoided the whole mess.
Perhaps. I don’t know where OP is, but there are laws regarding drainage though, which can drastically vary from one area to another depending on various factors such as flood risks and water shortage risks, amongst other factors. So a ~$5 fix might work, that doesn’t mean it meets code or legal requirements.
I do notice in OP’s photo that it leads to a somewhat shallow ditch that has about a joke of a tiny and potentially easily blocked culvert towards the top of the photo, but I don’t know where OP is located nor do I know the drainage requirements of the area.
So, sure, perhaps a simple ~$5 gravel fix might do the trick, but there might actually be even worse code violations there that a simple band-aid fix won’t resolve. Do it right the first time, or fix it right this time, and there shouldn’t be any problems.
$5 will buy you a plunger, but $500 might remove the actual clog from your sewage lines. Fix it quick and cheap, it might last you a week, or fix it right and reliably, and it’ll meet code and last you many more years.
McDonald’s can totally afford to fix that right.
You’d have to dig down to know
