Police in UK dye blue lagoon black to ward off pesky influencers who should be staying home

If you dye it, they will not come.

Police in Buxton, England found a clever way to prevent would-be influencers from flocking to the town's Instagrammable Caribbean-blue quarry lake — they dumped buckets of black dye in the water and called it a day.

According to a Facebook post by the local police department, they'd received calls complaining of people gathering at the picturesque "Blue Lagoon." The UK government instituted a stay-at-home order last week to combat the on-going coronavirus pandemic, and gatherings that break the new rules can result in fines issued by police. 

So rather than continually going out to the water spot to hand out fines, police decided to make it look less appealing. Read more...

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