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Town Fights Cricket Plague With Led Zeppelin

Posted by samzenpus on from the certain-mariah-carey-notes-make-dolphins-abduct-and-eat-small-children dept.

The residents of Tuscarora, Nevada are getting ready to fight the annual invasion of mormon crickets with the power of Rock-N-Roll. Trial and error has shown that the crickets don't think much of Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones. The residents circle the town with boomboxes at regular intervals to drive off the millions of crickets. "It is part of our arsenal. You'll wake up and there'll be one sitting on your forehead, looking at you." says Laura Moore, an unemployed college professor and one of the town's 13 residents. The crickets devastate crops, cause slicks on the highway and evidently love rap.

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  1. copyright violation by castironpigeon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Playing copyrighted music out in the open like that?! Better hope the RIAA doesn't get wind of this.

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    mmmm...forbidden donut
  2. Re:Well... by jo42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "rap" 75% of the word "crap".

  3. Re:PC police by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because no white (or any other ethnicity) person has ever created a rap song/album.

    It's because of comments like yours, that parent is +5 Funny.

    (In case you haven't noticed, the parent comment doesn't contain words such as "white" or "black". It's funny how he could make all your stereotypes fill in the blanks at once with just two words.)