Forget That It Is Illegal — It’s Summer Fun

by R. Elgin on July 19, 2011

They're back in Gwanak-Gu, cough, cough.

Tagged as: stupid ajoshi tricks

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1 Yu Bum Suk July 19, 2011 at 9:58 am: It’s illegal? My county pays a crew to drive around towns and do that.

There do seem to be less mosquitoes around this year. I’m assuming that’s due to the brutal January deep freeze.
2 SomeguyinKorea July 19, 2011 at 10:02 am: They are dangerous and the police should put an end to them. Just last week, I saw one of these trucks shoot a twelve-foot flame behind it for several seconds. My heart sank when I thought of the consequences if kids had been chasing it.
3 dinkus maximus July 19, 2011 at 10:05 am: No offense to this interesting phenomena, but how come nothing has been posted about the “Seoul Slut Walk” pioneered by Korea University yesterday?
4 cmm July 19, 2011 at 10:14 am: I’m curious Elgin, but please save me the time checking–do you use the same picture every time you post this exact same thing? It’s like the 5th time now, is it?
5 hamel July 19, 2011 at 10:27 am: I’m with dinkus!
Bring on the slut walk!
6 R. Elgin July 19, 2011 at 10:28 am: “Yu” it’s illegal for any guy off the street to do this for public space. Government officials are supposed to regulate this, likewise, I’ll bet your county does not let any tom-dick-or-harry do it too at their own leisure. If they do, you need to yell at those hillbillies. Gwanak-gu has “asked” these guys not to do this but no one cares enough to enforce regulations so . . .

“Dinkus”, Korea University should definitely hire some neighborhood ajoshis to fog pesticide for their slut walk.
7 WangKon936 July 19, 2011 at 10:30 am: Death to all mogis!
8 Yu Bum Suk July 19, 2011 at 10:48 am: So in Gwanuk-gu people are spending their own money to kill the community mosquitoes? Or is driving a mogi-cha around fun?
9 R. Elgin July 19, 2011 at 11:09 am: Yes “yu”, locals are donating their time and money(?) regardless of what the Gu office or law says. Their motto is “if I believe its true, safe or legal, then it has to be true, safe and legal”.
10 holterbarbour July 19, 2011 at 12:08 pm: How to stop mosquitoes: Stop throwing shit into storm drains, blocking them up and creating stagnant water pools where mosquitos breed.
11 R. Elgin July 19, 2011 at 12:43 pm: Yep, I discovered that my older neighbors across the street had set up big tubs to catch water in and they had mosquito larvae in them so they were breeding them while sponsoring this kind of nonsense.

Public education is needed.
12 The Western Confucian July 19, 2011 at 9:20 pm: According to this link, we Americans enjoyed such summer fun up until the ‘-70s — Running Behind the DDT Truck.
13 The Western Confucian July 19, 2011 at 9:22 pm: From the above mentioned link:

“In all of its years of use and in subsequent studies, it has been found to be safe for humans, it doesn’t cause birth defects, and there are no serious side effects. It has no odor. Called the ‘Atomic Bomb of Pesticides,’ nothing comes close to its ability to kill the mosquitoes that carry malaria and typhus. But in our infinite wisdom, we banned it in 1972. Studies show that it can be used heavily to kill off the mosquito population, and then use it very sparingly afterwards to keep the pest population down.

“One child dies every 30 seconds in Africa, India, Brazil, Mexico, and other countries because they are not using DDT, which is very inexpensive to purchase. In the year 2000, 300 million people had malaria, two million of them died from it, and one million of those were children. An infected bite can take up to four years to affect your kidney and liver. Environmentalists say that it MAY harm eagles. There is no proof at all of that. “
14 R. Elgin July 19, 2011 at 9:31 pm: Regarding DDT, from the wiki page:

. . . Developmental and reproductive toxicity
DDT and DDE, like other organochlorines, have been shown to have xenoestrogenic activity, meaning they are chemically similar enough to estrogens to trigger hormonal responses in animals. This endocrine disrupting activity has been observed in mice and rat toxicological studies, and available epidemiological evidence indicates that these effects may be occurring in humans as a result of DDT exposure. The US Environmental Protection Agency states that DDT exposure damages the reproductive system and reduces reproductive success. These effects may cause developmental and reproductive toxicity. . .

So there seems to be some cause for concern though more proof is needed.
I wonder why a Korean biomedical research team can’t figure out a way to take out the mosquito instead of trying to clone dogs.
15 Cheoto カンチョ July 19, 2011 at 10:58 pm: because ensuring an endless supply of bosingtang during summer is more important than reducing cases of mosquito transmitted viruses and parasites (yellow fever, dengue fever, Rift Valley fever, Ross River Fever, West Nile virus (WNV), Japanese encephalitis, etc)
16 Moses - the bulgogi monster July 20, 2011 at 7:04 am: I wonder what the smoke smells like! The comment made by Cheoto cracked me up!