Also, again, ------- muscovy ducks. One person brought them in from a friends pond because they look pretty. People started feeding them, the population exploded. They did $80,000 in direct damage to the pool and decking, and the chemical bills skyrocketed alongside that.
So, of course, the ducks have to be culled. It doesn't require a permit, they're an invasive species. The HOA claimed they needed a permit, until one of their family members got his paperwork in to create an animal control company they could no bid the contract out to.
This animal control company shows up, poisons the ducks at 1pm, and at 3pm as the elementary school kids get off the bus it is now an apocalyptic wasteland of dead and dying ducks hundreds of yards from the pond in both directions.
Corruption and Muscovy ducks are an expensive, sometimes traumatic combination.
TO POLYMARKET! Time to wager on their eventual pardons.