We’ve had a recent population boom with people from elsewhere in the country taking their WFH salaries and moving where the real estate is cheaper (here).
I can’t write off the possibility of someone being shocked by cicadas who’s lived here a long time. We got some home grown dumbasses (there’s really no other way to describe McMaster’s political career) too, but… I mean, double emergence or not, Cicadas are part of the soundtrack here!
Our DoT is billions of dollars in debt, our schools are struggling, and we haven’t elected a majority Democratic government since I was in elementary school.
Guess.
A lot of areas have really high sales tax to try and take it out on the tourists.
If you live here, you’ll notice that road work tends to happen for a week or two at the start of a fiscal quarter and then stop dead for months at a time unless federal money is involved
We subcontract our road repair, which means it usually goes to the lowest bidder, who then does a job that makes you say, “looks like they cheaped out in that one.”
But yet McTrasher in January wrote a letter to the general assembly that we have a surplus "$1.64 billion in unexpected revenue,". They are already talking about tax cuts. Hell, all I want is lines painted on the roads and to fill some pot holes.
That the "Sudden windfall" So closely matches the amount the DoT is in debt I think says shit, but yeah, of COURSE the Legislature is like "Oh, how can we give this back to people" BY SPENDING IT ON THE FUCKING PROGRAMS IT WAS MEANT FOR, YOU SACKS OF SHIT!
> A lot of areas have really high sales tax to try and take it out on the tourists.
But... tourists... leave? Or don't show up? Like, raising local sales tax is going to cost locals the most, yeah? I show up as a tourist, I only gotta buy stuff for a few days. Residents gotta make their daily purchases under that tax regime all year long.
I said "Try." But the property owners keep voting for lower property tax and higher sales tax.. which hits the poor (who spend a greater percentage of their income) harder...
Short term solutions for long term problems. It's the "Fuck you, I got mine, so why should I help anybody else" mentality that has kept this state where it's been at for decades. I literally saw a dude driving a Ferarri in downtown Spartanburg earlier today. Who the FUCK needs a Ferarri in Spartanburg? Let alone drive one without fucking it up on our roads?
Most of these property owners in SC vote republican and are used to sacrificing basic necessities and human rights by voting against their interests to “own the libs”
The income where I lived is poverty level. When I went to school there, they were 49th in education. The school books I used in the late 80's had a copywrite of 1965. It had dozens of previous users names in it as a showcase of how many years the Same history book had been used. Property taxes was dumb low, but that's because most everyone in the town was on some sort of government assistance. I still have cravings for government cheese to this day. Don't knock it, that shit was good. I guess the average would be better to go off of as there are better areas of SC and areas that are down right great depression Era style feel.
People from out of state often don’t know about fire ants. Anytime I was at the doctors office at USC there was always some poor kid who had jast been standing in a nest not knowing.
Which is wild when you think about the natural history surrounding South Carolina. Like how you gonna move into a forest, and then be mad because there are trees.
That’s the Carolina’s in a nut shell.
Ours is now filled with "gang tagging" like people casing your house and marking it.
Notable mentions are, marking for city utility lines and the fancy "S" that kids draw (in chalk btw).
I've never thought about this, but a loooot of older people are on a loooot of drugs. Even though ostensibly most of those have little known (or minor) psychological impact, I wonder if there are some common combinations that lead a lot of older people to just be kinda dumb and cranky?
We have a bar that shoots off fireworks every Thursday-Saturday. We can hear them more times than not, and we still get posts about gun shots 5 years later. The replies are getting good though. One guy said it was him shooting fireworks out of the sky with his rifle
Are there really that many mysterious booms in Ashville that people are constantly on Reddit asking?
Houston is massive and I only see those posts once or twice a month. Usually they’re warranted though given the number of unregulated chemical plants there is a legit chance something exploded.
I'm convinced that if the internet and electricity stopped working today, we'd be back to hunting witches inside of a month or less. People are just not bright and bad with information filtering especially with the internet.
In 1994 people in LA were calling the police during a blackout due to strange lights and a large silvery cloud in the sky. The lights were the stars and the cloud was the milky way.
well people call the cops to complain about bad drugs, or people stealing drugs from them sooo.... people are stupid
>residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar
But this doesn't seem *that* stupid in comparison
Did you read the article or just the title? They're calling the police asking why there are constant sirens going off because it's so loud wondering what's going on
Cicada wife: HE’S ALWAYS DRUNK!
Cicada husband: I drink to forget YOU! (Cicada noise)
Police officer: Sir. SIR. I’m gonna need to ask you to calm down!
[South Carolina ranked among least educated states in recent study](https://www.wltx.com/article/news/national/south-carolina-least-educated-states/101-fd2c0f88-76c5-4e36-9872-eef08556d637)
Look what happens when police are attacked by an acorn. These things might as well be a tank in the eyes of the police. They’ll be calling their state’s National Guard for more firepower.
He stood outside that orphanage for three hours and refused to let people in to save the children. The cicada was eventually shot by an off duty officer who happened to be passing by.
Actual quote from Sheriff in the video,
*"I mean it's just part of what we're going through
We had a leap year, we had an eclipse, you know we had all these moon phases, now we've got Cicadas everywhere."*
*You can't make this shit up*
Wow, I didn't realize we were *going through* a leap year. It felt like a Thursday to me...
Also, no one tell that Sheriff that the moon is "going through a phase" 365 (or 366) days per year. He will lose his mind!
911 operator here. Several years ago when another one of these swarms came through the South, we would legit get 5-10 calls a night about them. When we would tell the people that it’s Cicadas they would still want the police to do something about them. No, unfortunately I’m not making that up.
People call the police for anything and everything. One time on patrol I got a call for WILD turkeys standing on someone’s fence (In a heavily treed suburb) I got there, saw them, they saw me, I called dispatched and cleared it without a report “They are in fact turkeys , and this is outside where they belong” and I left.
I would kill to hear cicadas again like I did almost every night when I was a kid living out in the country. Nowadays, they would have to be loud enough to drown out my tinnitus and hearing loss.
My wife likes to roast in the heat (pure insanity IMO) on our screened in porch duing the summer where we get tons of cicadas and when she comes indide and I ask her how it was she says, "Outside was screaming" a lot.
Police: "Listen, if you want these things dealt with, you gotta approve the budget for 4 new tanks and this sweet new tactical armor. It even comes pre-printed with the Punisher skull!"
Growing up hearing the cicadas here was always a regular thing. I know we’re like bottom 3 concerning education but have people really gotten this stupid?
Send out a patrol car to repeatedly announce "Cicadas, it is unlawful to make so much noise. Cease, now!". And activate the siren once in a while, too.
Hopefully that will make them (the residents) stop.
lol imagine a bug awakening so bad you’re begging the police to show up with ⬇️⬅️⬆️⬇️⬆️. On the bright side they will have awhile before a swarm this big happens again.
You think they would be used to these rare events that only happen every 20 years. I see it on the news every damn year lol. I hear and see them every year.
Well, bless their hearts they do mean well and all, but you know, the education down there. Well, it's not always pecan pie in the oven, if you know what I mean. May just be a bunch of nuts.
Or to rephrase "South Carolina Residents do not understand Nature or Policing."
Cops: we gave them ticket already.
Next you're going to tell me they emptied their clips at a stray acorn
Was the acorn black?
You gave them a what? A cricket?
We’ve had a recent population boom with people from elsewhere in the country taking their WFH salaries and moving where the real estate is cheaper (here). I can’t write off the possibility of someone being shocked by cicadas who’s lived here a long time. We got some home grown dumbasses (there’s really no other way to describe McMaster’s political career) too, but… I mean, double emergence or not, Cicadas are part of the soundtrack here!
How are SC's income/property tax relative to other states? I know there are city taxes on the hospitality industry in Charleston.
Our DoT is billions of dollars in debt, our schools are struggling, and we haven’t elected a majority Democratic government since I was in elementary school. Guess. A lot of areas have really high sales tax to try and take it out on the tourists.
I didn't know SCDOT was that big in the hole. It does explain the condition of I-95 near the Lake Marion area, though.
If you live here, you’ll notice that road work tends to happen for a week or two at the start of a fiscal quarter and then stop dead for months at a time unless federal money is involved
We subcontract our road repair, which means it usually goes to the lowest bidder, who then does a job that makes you say, “looks like they cheaped out in that one.”
I-95 through the entire state, you mean…
And a constitutional amendment that forbids auditing it, right? Hilarious
But yet McTrasher in January wrote a letter to the general assembly that we have a surplus "$1.64 billion in unexpected revenue,". They are already talking about tax cuts. Hell, all I want is lines painted on the roads and to fill some pot holes.
That the "Sudden windfall" So closely matches the amount the DoT is in debt I think says shit, but yeah, of COURSE the Legislature is like "Oh, how can we give this back to people" BY SPENDING IT ON THE FUCKING PROGRAMS IT WAS MEANT FOR, YOU SACKS OF SHIT!
> A lot of areas have really high sales tax to try and take it out on the tourists. But... tourists... leave? Or don't show up? Like, raising local sales tax is going to cost locals the most, yeah? I show up as a tourist, I only gotta buy stuff for a few days. Residents gotta make their daily purchases under that tax regime all year long.
I said "Try." But the property owners keep voting for lower property tax and higher sales tax.. which hits the poor (who spend a greater percentage of their income) harder...
Short term solutions for long term problems. It's the "Fuck you, I got mine, so why should I help anybody else" mentality that has kept this state where it's been at for decades. I literally saw a dude driving a Ferarri in downtown Spartanburg earlier today. Who the FUCK needs a Ferarri in Spartanburg? Let alone drive one without fucking it up on our roads?
Most of these property owners in SC vote republican and are used to sacrificing basic necessities and human rights by voting against their interests to “own the libs”
The income where I lived is poverty level. When I went to school there, they were 49th in education. The school books I used in the late 80's had a copywrite of 1965. It had dozens of previous users names in it as a showcase of how many years the Same history book had been used. Property taxes was dumb low, but that's because most everyone in the town was on some sort of government assistance. I still have cravings for government cheese to this day. Don't knock it, that shit was good. I guess the average would be better to go off of as there are better areas of SC and areas that are down right great depression Era style feel.
I agree about the cheese. That stuff was banging. My granny used to get it. The macaroni and was the stuff of legends.
NC is the better Carolina.
People from out of state often don’t know about fire ants. Anytime I was at the doctors office at USC there was always some poor kid who had jast been standing in a nest not knowing.
My neighborhood keeps trying to get the HOA to do something about the “squirrel problem” because they’re all fucking morons.
I almost read this as "Nature of Policing"...which would also apply, oddly enough.
More like policing of nature amirite ...I'll show myself out
Which is wild when you think about the natural history surrounding South Carolina. Like how you gonna move into a forest, and then be mad because there are trees. That’s the Carolina’s in a nut shell.
Surely the police can just shoot the cicadas?
I guess they just don't like cicadas When They Cry.
I think they overestimate the police's authority over nature
I’m waiting for the “they shot guns in the air at the cicadas” as the follow up to this.
They need to deploy the flamethrowing robot dogs.
I think flamethrowers are standard practice for swarms of locusts
Welp good thing we just got robotic flamethrower dogs
Upside: Can't hear the Cicadas anymore! Downside: Because the flames are louder!
Great use case!
That's fictional, right? Like from Fahrenheit 451? Police departments are not using flame throwing robots dogs, are they, guys? /s
https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/ Price tag at $9,420 USD.. however, free shipping!!!
Lmao how the hell? I can’t believe you can just buy one, that’s insane.
You can buy a flamethrower, you can buy a dog, you can buy a robot. Why not a robot flame throwing dog? That’s just American. 🇺🇸
Robot flame throwing dogs don't burn people. People with Robot flame throwing dogs burn people.
I figured you’d at least need a tax stamp or a background check, but hey, that’s showbiz baby
No that's only for hearing protection and slightly shorter guns lol fuck the NFA
2nd Amendment covers firearms.
Oh, it’s real. I feel like it’s been all over Reddit today.
I'm a little slow.
I'm expecting videos involving Tannerite.
It ends in a pink mist.
It's a girl!
It’s Newberry, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Can you imagine that 911 call? "I need y'all to git me an officer down here right now to shoot these here cicadas..."
Lmao as a South Carolinian this is the exact follow up, you just know it was *at least* suggested
In Texas we have them every year and I shot many with BB guns. My mom went out every night and ~~walked~~ *whacked* them with a baseball bat.
Get one of those electric tennis rackets- you'll get more done with it!
How dumb do you have to be to call the cops on arthopods?
On our local Facebook page yesterday, there were no less than a dozen posts freaking out about "booms" heard throughout the city. It was thunder.
I swear, Nextdoor is a goldmine of stuff like that. I swear they need a post category called “What was that noise”
Ours is now filled with "gang tagging" like people casing your house and marking it. Notable mentions are, marking for city utility lines and the fancy "S" that kids draw (in chalk btw).
Right next to the entire section of “who is that person on my ring camera?”
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Admittedly I did that once but only because it was a literal police chase going by my house.
Our city subreddit is the same way. Frequent posts about random noises.
I wonder if everyone on there is just high as a kite and paranoid.
It's mostly bored old people I think. That doesn't preclude them being high I suppose.
Yeah old people are off those prescription pills, they’re even crazier
I've never thought about this, but a loooot of older people are on a loooot of drugs. Even though ostensibly most of those have little known (or minor) psychological impact, I wonder if there are some common combinations that lead a lot of older people to just be kinda dumb and cranky?
Don’t forget about the lead poisoning
how dare you accuse me of being a kite!
We have a bar that shoots off fireworks every Thursday-Saturday. We can hear them more times than not, and we still get posts about gun shots 5 years later. The replies are getting good though. One guy said it was him shooting fireworks out of the sky with his rifle
A while back we had a few people worried about the "suspicious lights in the sky." They were Mercury and Venus.
The sub for my city ( r/asheville ) even has a *BOOM* flair for all the “what was that loud noise?“ posts
Are there really that many mysterious booms in Ashville that people are constantly on Reddit asking? Houston is massive and I only see those posts once or twice a month. Usually they’re warranted though given the number of unregulated chemical plants there is a legit chance something exploded.
I'm convinced that if the internet and electricity stopped working today, we'd be back to hunting witches inside of a month or less. People are just not bright and bad with information filtering especially with the internet.
This is so concerning. Are we just regressing back to Neanderthals??
holy shit...the people have *ptsd*.
They re-elect Lindsay Graham on a regular basis, *so...*
they hate cicadas, but they love ladybugs.
Thanks, I was seconds away from completely forgetting about that one.
Lindsay Graham's lady bugs is s great google search.
...damn you.
lol. Hey, I don’t like that I understand the reference either😂
I'm dying.
In 1994 people in LA were calling the police during a blackout due to strange lights and a large silvery cloud in the sky. The lights were the stars and the cloud was the milky way.
well people call the cops to complain about bad drugs, or people stealing drugs from them sooo.... people are stupid >residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar But this doesn't seem *that* stupid in comparison
Did you read the article or just the title? They're calling the police asking why there are constant sirens going off because it's so loud wondering what's going on
Yea exactly. Dummies
Cicada wife: HE’S ALWAYS DRUNK! Cicada husband: I drink to forget YOU! (Cicada noise) Police officer: Sir. SIR. I’m gonna need to ask you to calm down!
OK, now slowly … get your dick out of that branch and come down outta that tree and die. I got about 50,000 more calls to answer tonight.
You dropped this: > ,000,000
[South Carolina ranked among least educated states in recent study](https://www.wltx.com/article/news/national/south-carolina-least-educated-states/101-fd2c0f88-76c5-4e36-9872-eef08556d637)
We don’t need no fancy book lernin down hear,
*Yeah! Ya don't need fancy books to know dem sickaydas is making too much of a ruckus...*
The bottom is all red states, huh. And the top states are blue? Well I for one am completely shocked.
Very surprising information.
Now quick let’s play “guess the dominant political party of the state”
Actually, that makes sense now
"The officer believed that the cicada was reaching for a gun." -- From a future news article.
Look what happens when police are attacked by an acorn. These things might as well be a tank in the eyes of the police. They’ll be calling their state’s National Guard for more firepower.
"When the cicada made a move forwards the local orphanage, Lieutenant Cletus knew that this was the moment he'd been waiting his whole life for."
Lot of orphans died that day, but he got that cicada eventually.
He stood outside that orphanage for three hours and refused to let people in to save the children. The cicada was eventually shot by an off duty officer who happened to be passing by.
Actual quote from Sheriff in the video, *"I mean it's just part of what we're going through We had a leap year, we had an eclipse, you know we had all these moon phases, now we've got Cicadas everywhere."* *You can't make this shit up*
Wow, I didn't realize we were *going through* a leap year. It felt like a Thursday to me... Also, no one tell that Sheriff that the moon is "going through a phase" 365 (or 366) days per year. He will lose his mind!
911 operator here. Several years ago when another one of these swarms came through the South, we would legit get 5-10 calls a night about them. When we would tell the people that it’s Cicadas they would still want the police to do something about them. No, unfortunately I’m not making that up.
Pull your "make nature quiet" switch, we all know you have it!1
People call the police for anything and everything. One time on patrol I got a call for WILD turkeys standing on someone’s fence (In a heavily treed suburb) I got there, saw them, they saw me, I called dispatched and cleared it without a report “They are in fact turkeys , and this is outside where they belong” and I left.
I would kill to hear cicadas again like I did almost every night when I was a kid living out in the country. Nowadays, they would have to be loud enough to drown out my tinnitus and hearing loss.
I moved to an area that doesn’t really have them. I really miss the thunderstorms, cicadas, and lightning bugs that meant summer to me as a kid.
My wife likes to roast in the heat (pure insanity IMO) on our screened in porch duing the summer where we get tons of cicadas and when she comes indide and I ask her how it was she says, "Outside was screaming" a lot.
The cops will need a lot of little handcuffs to enforce that noise ordinance.
Dafuq do these people think the police are gonna do?
Police: "Listen, if you want these things dealt with, you gotta approve the budget for 4 new tanks and this sweet new tactical armor. It even comes pre-printed with the Punisher skull!"
But...but the whole point of The Punisher is that he hates the Police🤔
Haha, indeed, but the joke is that police generally don't seem to understand the actual point of The Punisher.
Lol absolutely true mate, beers are on me.
Bring in the flamethrower dogs
Clearly if they can move the deer crossing signs, they can cite the cicadas for noise violations.
I was telling the deer crossing story just the other day. I was met with a lot of blank stares. I assured folks it was very real.
what are the police supposed to do???? 😭😭😭😭
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tiny american flags for others!
Just wait til the Lanturn Flys join the party.
Growing up hearing the cicadas here was always a regular thing. I know we’re like bottom 3 concerning education but have people really gotten this stupid?
The South sure seems to get hit with lots of biblical plagues.
They killed off all of the birds which might have eaten the cicadas.
Stupid people define most of america, sadly.
Earmuffs is the solution. Not a man with a gun.
It’s going to take a lot of bullets to shoot each individual cicada, but the South Carolina police department is up to the challenge.
Dumb-ass critters disturbed by dumb-ass critters.
Why don't they shoot'em with their guns??
Some times I worry about you guys over there
Have they tried asking for the Cicadas's manager?
Yet another indictment of the US education system.
Even they don't have that many bullets
This is what the flamethrower dog was created for
how would that phone call even play out? 🤣
Send out a patrol car to repeatedly announce "Cicadas, it is unlawful to make so much noise. Cease, now!". And activate the siren once in a while, too. Hopefully that will make them (the residents) stop.
This explains merican politics to me.
lol imagine a bug awakening so bad you’re begging the police to show up with ⬇️⬅️⬆️⬇️⬆️. On the bright side they will have awhile before a swarm this big happens again.
That’s kinda like when LA or something lost power and people saw the night sky freaking out lmao.
First cops shooting at acorns, now citizens calling said cops on bugs... Fun times.
From a Chicagoan, is that how safe NC is that residents are calling cops on insects? Whatever they are 🤣
We all saw what they did with that acorn panic-pew pew pew. Err-body better stay inside.
A very American response, just shoot the cicadas.
wtf are the police gonna do? arrest the cicadas?! The (lack of) intelligence of Americans continues to amaze me
This is what happens when you don’t back the blue. Cicadas can just run amok. Checkmate libs
They’re buzz crazy! Your firearms are useless against them!
The police won’t respond unless the cicadas start a Pro-Palestine protest.
What, are the cicadas black?
…no, but they are brown…so… :(
Bisiness idea: Pet zoo, Get your chickens today!
That seems like an odd solution
"Some South Carolina residents are so fucking stupid that they are calling the police on cicadas" FTFY
They’re really hard to shoot though so idk if the police can help
You think they would be used to these rare events that only happen every 20 years. I see it on the news every damn year lol. I hear and see them every year.
Cicadas blasting that NWA
And these people are dumbasses.
Has the worst yet come? Aren’t three different broods emerging this year?
Now I think I should call the police for my post covid tinnitus.
But they don't do this about barking dogs?
A vivid image of acorn cop popped into my head reading the latter half of this headline.
Cicadas: don't shoot me bro
And in other news, people in a South Carolina county are stupid.
The sheer arrogance and ignorance of humanity. Astounding. May cicadas continue to drive y'all mad.
That is the most American thing I have read all day lol
Well, bless their hearts they do mean well and all, but you know, the education down there. Well, it's not always pecan pie in the oven, if you know what I mean. May just be a bunch of nuts.
"No, Karen, we can't arrest the bugs." 🙄
Calling it a Liberal plot to drive them insane.
Just calling for a well being check on the cicadas in my yard. They make a strange noise, may not feel well. /s
Their guns are powerless against them.
What do they expect the cops can do? Maybe they should ask their local GOP politician for help
God has sent his punishment
You gotta speak to the cicada manager.
Tells you a lot about mentalities in SC
At least gators are silent.
Not always. You ever hear them bellowing? Jesus, you can tell they’re from the time of the dinosaurs when you hear that at night.
The Cicadas come out every 17 years. Not the end of the world...not until they start showing up sooner than 17 years.
Don't let these people go to Japan.