If Your Mascot Is A Piece Of Poop, You Should Get A New Mascot

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Here’s a quick rule of thumb: If you’re a company and you have a mascot and that mascot is a piece of poop, you should get a new mascot. This is a lesson that California’s Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority would be good to learn. Meet their mascot, Mr. Dingle.

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(Coincidentally this is the single best photo to describe the Lakers 2014-2015 season.)

The VVWRA’s choice of a poop as their mascot is particularly strange considering their job is to treat and clean wastewater. So their mascot is something that they eradicate. It would be like if a sports team were called the Hunters but the mascot was a terrified deer. I will give them one thing though, yesterday, I didn’t know what the Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority was. Today I do. And it is all because of Mr. Dingle. That said, now that people know what you are, maybe find a new mascot. Or even better, you’re a water treatment authority. You don’t need a mascot. It’s ridiculous that you even have one!

Sorry, Mr. Dingle.

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You can see more pictures of Dingle and learn more about the VVWRA (if you’re into water reclamation, I guess) at their Facebook page.

H/T Tom Ley at Deadspin.