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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[–] 142 points 9 months ago (24 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"

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (19 children)

    Contact your local mosquito control agency

    Y’all have mosquito control agencies?!

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  • [–] [S] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

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

    Edit:

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 41 points 9 months ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Here in south Mississippi, absolutely!

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    What part? We have that here around Sacramento.

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

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I guess trying to control mosquitos is officially woke.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    We have them in Minnesota too.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

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

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months 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...

    ☹️

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago

    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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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 48 points 9 months ago (1 child)

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

    Sounds like an average McDonalds to me.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Put a # TODO comment on it

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months 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.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

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

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    The d is silent

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Where's a lawn chair when you need it?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (11 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (10 children)

    Or, now hear me out..

    Cement a toilet seat on top of it.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    I though the idea was to remove the stink?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago

    Drainage is serious fucking business here, as are mosquitos.

    This mcdonalds has been here for a long time.

    Despite the focus on proper drainage, faults go unnoticed for a long time. Something similar happened at my previous job

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    You'd have to dig down to know

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Why doesn’t it just

    🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    This is why I always carry liquid hand soap

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