So like.. lawsuit? I'd definitely be calling up a lawyer (in addition to the city/police)... that's _seriously_ effed up. What if you had a home business selling honey/beeswax? That's just the most obvious example... not to mention the human-hazardous aspect of spraying this stuff!

It's not really happening, he's describing the plot of a video game.

Super weak, I wondered if that was the case. Lame troll then.

my hometown in Texas has done this regularly since i was a child, when mosquito-borne viruses hit there. they aired notices about spraying nights on local TV news, on the radio, and published schedules in the papers.

i remember my parents discussing it with me and reading editorial debates in the paper.

not providing notice seems like a serious failure and i'd encourage you to give them legal/financial incentives to do so in the future.

edit: some other commenters are dismissing this as fake, so here, the CDC has an informational page on truck spraying https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/mosquito-control/community/tr...

this is horrendous. where are you located?

99% sure reddit is leaking in, and this is just some pop culture reference https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Bugstars

It's fictional, but similar things have happened, like the aerial malathion bombardments of the 80s in California to combat the Mediterranean fruit fly. I lived through that perfectly fine, but do remember it being pretty controversial (but I was a kid, so not sure how reliable my memories are).

Doesn't it concern you that you're poisoning the public discourse with this false claim that looks plausible?

The only thing that gives away that you're talking about some side quest in the video game grand theft auto is googling "BugStars".