5 Miles

A MSNBC article tells about a brood of cicadas that are expected to emerge this month in part of the Midwest. I found this quote really funny:

An Illinois company that provides ice sculptures has turned down several outdoor parties over the next month. That’s because of what happened when Nadeau Ice Sculptures owner Jim Nadeau delivered a swan statue to a wedding in 1990, during the area’s last emergence of the periodical cicadas.

“We put our tray down and immediately the cicadas came off the ground and attacked the ice. Literally, it was a moving sculpture, this big black ugly mass of cicadas constantly moving,” said Nadeau.

“I don’t want to talk myself out of work, but that was just too gross,” he said.