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Oh, rats. There’s one aspect of Baltimore she can’t get used to [2013]
The Washington Post ^ | June 19, 2013 | Karen Houppert

Posted on 07/28/2019 3:30:12 PM PDT by Vendome

The reported rat rate increased from fewer than 10 rats per 1,000 residents in 2002 to 60 per 1,000 in 2009, according to Baltimore CitiStat. A Baltimore City Health Department report that year noted that “the rodent infestation rate in Baltimore is six times the national average.” More recently, 19,869 residents called the city’s 311 number to complain about rats between Jan. 1, 2010, and April 4, 2013, with a slight bump from 7,579 in 2011 to 8,436 in 2012. (This compares to the District’s 311 calls regarding rodents, which rose from 2,820 in 2011 to 3,010 in 2012.) Personally, I’ve called Baltimore’s 311 number for rodent control once when my chubby, not-the-brightest-bulb dog started catching and killing the brazen creatures in my yard one summer; since then, dozens and dozens of rats have darted by, and I haven’t bothered calling.

Baltimore gives the rats free housing, free food, free rein. “Have at!” we tell them, putting our overflowing garbage cans in the dark back alleys.

Baltimore is a place where the rats — and I’m not being metaphorical here, referring to the ones at City Hall who mismanage local affairs or the ex-mayor, convicted a few years back for taking gift cards donated for the poor and giving them to her own children — truly have their run of the city. Baltimore gives the rats free housing, free food, free rein. “Have at!” we tell them, putting our overflowing garbage cans in the dark back alleys unlike say, in New York City, where trash cans are typically placed for pickup on the sidewalks, subject to the streetlights, pedestrians and regular sanitation inspectors that keep rodents in check.

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1 posted on 07/28/2019 3:30:12 PM PDT by Vendome
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To: Vendome

Issue 10-22s and put a $1 bounty on the dead bodies.


2 posted on 07/28/2019 3:32:19 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Vendome

The Baltimore Chamber of Commerce must be so happy to see this issue go viral as the national press jump all over Trump for his “racist” comments - tourism will skyrocket - to somewhere else.....


3 posted on 07/28/2019 3:35:26 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Paladin2

The city has plenty of guns. Hence, their out of control murder rate.

Why not just keep your home, neighborhood and city clean? /S

Eliminate open trash and kick your cats out of the house to fend for themselves...

Problem Solved

I’m a genius...


4 posted on 07/28/2019 3:37:46 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Vendome

What Baltimore needs are some good rat recipes!


5 posted on 07/28/2019 3:38:19 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Vendome

Baltimore Mayor, “You can smell the rats!”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/watch/baltimore-mayor-catherine-pugh-you-can-smell-the-rats/vp-BBNhbV7


6 posted on 07/28/2019 3:38:54 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Lose the demographic war! You lose your country! Illegals are winning that war across the world!)
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To: Paladin2

How perceptive of you. 40 grains/1200 FPS meet rat brains. Problem solve’d as The famous Inspector might say.


7 posted on 07/28/2019 3:44:36 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: TigersEye

Start sending black Naked and Afraid contestants to Baltimore.

They’ll get the rat population down and
show the ferals what ‘feral, is really like.


8 posted on 07/28/2019 3:45:33 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Equine1952

I don’t think I’d trust all of those Baltimorons with .22s. BB guns, maybe. And that would do it. Hell, set 10 rat traps. I’ll bet you could kill 50 a day. Competition for food has to be pretty intense.


9 posted on 07/28/2019 3:51:11 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Vendome

Baltimore citizens chow down.

10 posted on 07/28/2019 4:22:53 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Vendome

A tactical nuke is more appropriate.


11 posted on 07/28/2019 4:54:06 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Vendome
Go, Vendome, Go!!


12 posted on 07/28/2019 5:09:29 PM PDT by 4Liberty (The taxpayers can always take one more for the team. - The Government)
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To: Vendome

Thank you for sharing.


13 posted on 07/28/2019 7:26:43 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Paladin2

5 gallon bucket with a wire from side to side.
1 coke can covered in peanut butter.
1 four foot 2x4 leading up to edge of bucket.
Fill bucket with 2 gallons of water.
See how many rats you have each morning.


14 posted on 07/28/2019 8:04:01 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Keyhopper

So, are the ‘Rats in Ballmer so stupid that they can’t run thousands of those?


15 posted on 07/28/2019 8:05:35 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

They’ll have to start a program, supply the material, and of course someone to set it up, and don’t forget someone to dispose of the dead rats.


16 posted on 07/28/2019 9:15:51 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Vendome

What it really says is how the sheeple of Baltimore are so well indoctrinated they keep electing the people that never solve Baltimore’s problems. And they are the ones that keep electing Cummings as well.


17 posted on 07/29/2019 8:17:06 AM PDT by Wuli
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