Yesterday, we had images of Brundlefly buzzing through our heads when we heard about the abandoned Popeyes in East New York which has been stinking up the neighborhood while also becoming a popular vacation spot for thousands of flies. Now, you can see just how gross it is for yourself with the video below, taken by NBC. "It smells like there's something dead in there, it doesn't smell like rotten food, it smells like there's something dead," one man told ABC.
According to a Department of Health spokesperson, inspectors still haven't been able to gain entry into the padlocked restaurant/fly graveyard, and are "trying to reach out to the property owner."
City Councilman Charles Barron added that his office is considering suing the building's owner, Pennsylvania Avenue Management LLC, for the unsanitary state: "This is absurd that a property owner can abandon a property in the community and leave it such an unhealthy, environmentally hazardous mess and no one in the city checks it. Those flies are disgusting."
One of the major problems is that it seems nobody wants to take responsibility to clean up the mess. But you know who they should really hire to take care of it? Someone who really appreciates the art of killing flies:
