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.
This drain has no drain...
56 Comments
over_clox@lemmy.world · 143 pts · 198d
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 · 64 pts · 198d
I think I will do all of this
over_clox@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 198d
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 · 28 pts · 198d
Y’all have mosquito control agencies?!
Steve@startrek.website · 35 pts · 198d
Sure do! They even have an open house every year and the kids get to sit in their helicopter.
Edit:
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 198d
Why do they need a helicopter? More importantly, do they call it "The Skeeter Beater?"
crank0271@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 198d
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 · 12 pts · 198d
Genuinely don't know if you're kidding or not. Movie idea: aliens do this to humanity.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 198d
Plot twist: they already create unobtainable standards with celebrities.
silver@das-eck.haus · 5 pts · 198d
Ryan Gosling is actually a fish alien
bitchkat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 198d
Here's a local agency https://mmcd.org/
bitchkat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 198d
The drop pellets into ponds, marshes, etc that disrupts the mating cycle. They may also release sterile males.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 198d
Here in south Mississippi, absolutely!
ccunning@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 198d
We could certainly use one here in Coastal Carolina, but we’re just left to fend for ourselves…
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 198d
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 pts · 198d
I guess trying to control mosquitos is officially woke.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 197d
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.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 197d
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.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 198d
It's common in the tropics where mosquitoes can carry deadly viruses
bitchkat@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 198d
We have them in Minnesota too.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 198d
Oof, stay warm up there, and stay safe..
Fuck ICE, except the kind of ice that freezes the mosquitoes...
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 197d
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 · 2 pts · 197d
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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shyguyblue@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 198d
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 ...
CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social · 1 pts · 198d
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 198d
Isn't that the entirety of e-arth?
Source: Agent Wendy Pleakley
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 50 pts · 198d
Sounds like an average McDonalds to me.
Sergio@piefed.social · 10 pts · 198d
Corporate decided stagnant ponds were cheaper than Play Areas.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 198d
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 198d
Just typical laziness. Sees problem. Doesn't solve problem. Complains about problem.
McDonald's has straws.
hypna@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 198d
Put a # TODO comment on it
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 197d
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 · 14 pts · 198d
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 · 17 pts · 198d
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 · 8 pts · 198d
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 · 6 pts · 198d
Yes it is in a drainage ditch
FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 198d
Nah that's actually a half pipe for skater gnomes.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 197d
The d is silent
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 198d
Where's a lawn chair when you need it?
over_clox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 198d
You spelled toilet seat wrong.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social · 4 pts · 198d
It should have been filled with gravel. The kind fine enough to be used in an aquarium.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 198d
Or, now hear me out..
Cement a toilet seat on top of it.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social · 2 pts · 198d
I though the idea was to remove the stink?
over_clox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 198d
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...
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 198d
They just gonna erect an outhouse around the toilet.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 198d
Hahahahahaha!
Goddamn I needed that laugh to help start the year! 💩🚽
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social · 1 pts · 198d
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.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 198d
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...
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social · 1 pts · 198d
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.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 198d
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.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 197d
That is not a drain, it is technically now a sump.
blarth@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 197d
Why doesn’t it just
🤷♂️
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 198d
You'd have to dig down to know
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 197d
This is why I always carry liquid hand soap
newton@feddit.online · 1 pts · 43d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioswale
Steve@startrek.website · 1 pts · 43d
FYI someone cleaned it eventually and there is a single 1” pvc embedded in the bottom to drain it to the adjacent ditch. A single leaf completely clogs it.