Brickell Corridor Revealed to be Human Ant Farm
Residents of Downtown Miami Are Subjects of Science Experiment Gone Awry####By Lisa W. Hopper
Miami residents have been unwittingly participating in a large-scale science experiment. The water systems along the Biscayne/Brickell Boulevard Corridor have been laced with formic acid and a secret chemical that is slowly converting the residents of that area into ants. This is the belief of many who offer this justificationâhow else could residents continue to move single file in an orderly fashion through the lagging city infrastructure that was never meant to support such numbers of commuters?
Masterson Biyou, a worker at the Pawal Chemical Plant in Homestead, the maker of EFE-45, short for Experimental Formic Carbonycyclinethylpop Version 45, informed, âIâm coming forward because I donât think itâs right. Iâve seen the photos. I canât do that to another human being.â He is referring to the Pawal Chemical Research & Development Top Secret Photo Files. âWhen I saw the photo of that little girl accosting those picnickers at Miami Circle Park because they had a sticky sweet cakeâone of those panatela borracha cakesâit was just awful. She tore them apart with her massive jaws.â Mr. Biyou also described a 20-year old young man with antennae as long as his arm and the same massive, crushing jaws. âWhere is he going to get a job looking like that?! The poor boy! Maybe a bodyguard or a bouncer. MaybeâŠ.â Mr. Biyou trailed off, obviously deeply disturbed by the images.
>###How else could residents continue to move single file in an orderly fashion through the lagging city infrastructure never meant to support this many commuters? The targeted area for the experiment is Downtown Miami, a 2.1 square mile area which includes zip codes 33128, 33130, 33131, and 33132, and which is home to approximately 200,000 men, women, children, andânowâant people.
The Plantain Investigates The Plantain attempted to reach the CEO of Pawal Chemical Company but was redirected to the legal department. Acting as the spokesman for the company, Berand Slotzmeyer, Esq., stated, âPawal has a strong community outreach component. We really care about the local community. A couple of weeks ago, we insisted that our employees volunteer their free time to pick up the trash on our sponsored stretch of road, the block in front of our plant. Keeping the community safe and clean is what Pawal is all about. Last year after Hurricane Irma ravaged Homestead and greater Miami, we offered counseling to employees who had been previously traumatized by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Once they were identified as emotionally broken, we fired them but continued to pay for their next three therapy sessions as an act of goodwill. We have many such community and employee-oriented programs.â
Another Pawal employee who wished to remain anonymous reported that the hub of the area most greatly affected by experimentation lies within the concentric circles and byways leading to Brickell City Centre, referred to among Pawal employees as âThe Ant Farm.â Brickell City Center manager, Fatima Rostas, explained as she scratched her thorax, âNo, I havenât heard of that term and it has nothing to do with the fact that we have revamped the dining venues at The Center to dessert-only establishments. We have many fine apparel stores, too, such as Banana Republic, Hormiga Hombre, Exoskeleâto name a few. And home furnishing purveyorsâColony and Socialite. Thereâs something for anyone.â
Some Are Happy Being A Part of the Experiment Other positive stories abound. One resident and frequenter of The Ant Farm is pleased with his new physique. Melvin Backshell told The Plantain, âIâm stronger than Iâve ever been. I stopped juicing up with âroids. I can lift many times my body weight now, so I got a job with Waste ServicesâI lift twenty-five hundred pound dumpsters and empty them into dump trucks.â
Although Pawal continues to deny any knowledge of âant peopleâ or their part in creating them, a trip through Downtown Miami will quickly remove all doubts in the observer and leaves one with a feeling of having walked onto the set of the black and white classic horror film âThemâ (1954, Warner Bros.) in which giant ants have taken over the city.
Lisa W. Hopper is a freelance journalist and guest staff writer for The Plantain. She lives just outside of Downtown Miami in zip code 33137.