Areas Around Dick's Sporting Goods Park Temporarily Closed Due to the Plague

[yortsed snacilbuper]

The Colorado Rapids game against the Montreal Impact will still be played on Saturday, Aug. 3 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park but scheduled post-game fireworks have been canceled due to the "confirmed presence of plague-infested fleas affecting prairie dog colonies" in Commerce City and surrounding areas, the team


https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/soccer/areas-around-dicks-sporting-goods-park-temporarily-closed-due-to-plague/ar-AAFfhHc?ocid=spartandhp

[underpants]

1. Damn. Their Dicks has the fleas AND the plague

[lagomorph777]

2. I hate it when that happens.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. When do we get the locusts, frogs, lice, and boils?

[underpants]

4. Check Amazon

Next day delivery too

[Lochloosa]

5. Same day if you order in the next 3 hours and 10 minutes.

[Leith]

6. Well, Vegas had grasshoppers

There were swarms big enough to show up on weather radar.

Locusts are grasshoppers that overbreed and go crazy en masse. I'm not looking forward to the frogs, lice, and boils.

[Retrograde]

7. Chapulinas!

A Mexican restaurant in San Jose marinates them in chiles and lime juice then fries them - delicious! Probably a pain to clean, though

[Crunchy Frog]

8. Actually, it's well known that plague is endemic among Colorado's prairie dogs

So there is nothing abnormal about the situation, even though it sounds alarming

I did once have to explain to a coworker from Poland why her son couldn't catch a prairie dog and keep it for a pet.