Fumigate the Buggers!

I was at work today, standing in front of the school building at 5:00, waiting for Adrian to get out of judo class, when a vile little car, a little pick up truck, came around the corner. In the trunk stood some kind of generator, or exhaust pipe, that emitted an incredible dense cloud of thick, white smoke. So as this car, with this incredible noisy apparatus in the trunk slowly drove by, it literally fumigated the entire street. There were a group of kids standing in front of the high school building, and they were all chased off the street. Coughing and retching they all ran back into the building. The guards were upset, because after all these attacks, no car are allowed into the streets unless they have some business at the school. But they had to run for the smoke as well. And what was it all about? This is how the Municipality of Beirut gets rid of its bugs during summer. Go figure. The guards said it was to kill the mosquitos, but I do not see what harm mosquitos can do, so maybe it is to get rid of the rodents or the cockroaches or something. Whatever it was, it got rid of us too. Wonder what is in this disinfectant? I can just imagine this happening in Holland. There’d be parliementary questions about it. Here we just spray the streets. Fumigate the buggers!
And I am trying ot get my links right, but haven’t figured out how yet.