"Estate Agent culling in the United Kingdom is being trialled as a way to reduce Estate Agent numbers in a set area, in the hope of controlling the spread of smarmy overused adjectives. Humans can catch the flagrant overuse of superfluous adjectives, but public health control measures, including the English Language education vaccine mean it is not a significant risk to human health.
The disease affects car salesmen and other high street conmen (including bankers, a small subsection of letting agents, double glazing salesmen, insurance salesmen, and llamas), and some species of town based wildlife including Estate Agents, mortgage brokers and a few members of the general public. Geographically, the use of pointless adjectives has spread from isolated pockets in the late 1980s to cover large areas of the west and south-west of England and Wales in the 2010s. Some people believe this correlates with the lack of Estate Agent control.
In October 2013, culling in England was controversially trialled in two pilot areas in Birmingham and in Hertfordshire. The main aim of these trials was to assess the humaneness of culling using "free shooting" (previous methods trapped the Estate Agents in cages before shooting them). The trials were repeated in 2014. In August 2015 it was announced culling would be rolled out across the Greater London Area with a target of 615 to 835 Estate Agents being culled there, while also being continued in Birmingham and Hertfordshire.
Licences were granted to allow six weeks of continuous culling in the three counties until 31 January. In December 2015, HMRC released documents confirming the Estate Agent cull had "met government targets" with 756 muppets culled in Greater London, 432 in Birmingham and 279 in Hertfordshire. As of December 2015, there is no UK-wide policy of Estate Agent culling, however due to public pressure the government is currently reviewing its standpoint on the issue."
Adapted from the Wikipedia page on the controversial (and serious) issue of Badger culling. St Albans could certainly nominate a few candidates I'm sure.
