“Rodents” sounds like “road dents.” “Exterminators call pot holes ‘road dents!!!’” was posted on Twitter on February 2, 2010. “Guys, be careful when you drive. Rats are chewing up city streets and causing really bad… road dents” was posted on Twitter on June 2, 2016.
A riddle was posted on Reddit—3amjokes on December 10, 2017:
Q: Which animals make potholes?
A: Rodents.
Twitter
Yung denzL
@MI_Abaga
Ok.. Too many people got this one.. Exterminators call pot holes “road dents!!!’
4:21 AM - 2 Feb 2010
Twitter
PoliticsUK
@PoliticsUK1
Q Why did the rat struggle to cross the busy Birmingham road?
A Because of all the road-dents
10:03 AM - 18 Aug 2010
Twitter
Cakemittens
@cakemittens
really bad potholes are road dents of unusual size
2:23 PM - 5 Dec 2012
Twitter
Masae Anela
@MasaeAnela
Guys, be careful when you drive. Rats are chewing up city streets and causing really bad… road dents.
4:32 PM - 2 Jun 2016
Reddit—3amjokes
Which animals make potholes? self.3amjokes
Submitted December 10, 2017 by ButtFuckYourFacelife’s not flair.
Rodents
Twitter
3AM
@3AM_Jokes
Which animals make potholes?... Rodents
10:06 PM - 9 Dec 2017 (Posted after the above.—ed.)
Twitter
LOL Tweets™
@lolmgco
Which animals make potholes?
Rodents
11:42 PM - 9 Dec 2017
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