Posted on 08/23/2018 4:03:22 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rat complaints are soaring, and D.C. is doubling down on its efforts to kill them
Rats are overrunning D.C., and the city has tried everything from dry ice to solar trash cans to control the population.
By Rachel Chason, John D. Harden and Chris Alcantara Aug. 23, 2018
They scurry across alleyways. They chew through trash cans. They make a sound that’s something between a hiss and a chatter.
And despite the District’s efforts, the number of rats in Washington seems to be growing.
Complaints to 311 about rodents in the nation’s capital reached an all-time high in 2017 — totaling 5,310, a 50 percent increase from 2016 — and are on track to increase in 2018.
[‘Never seen it like this’: Meet D.C.’s rat rat, the person who has filed the most rodent complaints with the city]
“It’s an eternal war,” said Mark Eckenwiler, an Advisory Neighborhood Commission member who lives on Capitol Hill. “You can kill them in one location and they pop up in another.”
The Washington Post examined more than 15,000 rat complaints reported to the District government over more than five years. In some of the city’s most densely populated areas, where trendy bars and restaurants have proliferated, complaints have increased at staggering rates: Shaw saw a 436 percent increase in complaints from 2014 to 2017, Columbia Heights a 449 percent increase and Capitol Hill a 430 percent increase.
D.C. Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), whose ward includes Capitol Hill, said he began hearing more complaints about a year and a half ago, when “people started seeing this explosion of the rat population.”
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DC is quite overrun with rats, isn’t it?
Reminds me of a song-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ijc7A5oAc
The Demo-Crats in Congress are a great place to start the clean up. There are a lot of Rats there.
Irony is probably completely lost on the Compost.
“They scurry across alleyways. They chew through trash cans. They make a sound that’s something between a hiss and a chatter.”
and this is just when they manufacture “extra” ballots from a printing press fully signed by dead people..
Man, that is my all-time favorite picture. I could lick the tears from their eyes.
Liberals want to trap and release - story goes back a few years. https://www.pest-control-products.net/720/rats/does-the-law-allow-you-to-kill-rats/
Liberals want to trap and release - story goes back a few years
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I lived there in the mid 60s. Nothing has changed.
Never mind. Carry on.
Rats vs ‘Rats.
The photo brings so much joy.
The white woman in front looks like an alien.
IRONY drips from this article.
Where I live the Rats vote stupidly, talk too much and have way too many bumper stickers on their cars.
It’s way past time to rid DC of Demonic’Rats!!!
I read half the article before I realized the article was not about democrats.
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey’s on the moon)...
I hope it gets worse. Much worse.
How funny, that they mention neighborhoods with trendy bars and restaurants, have seen a proliferation of rats.
Liberal yuppie types who go to such establishments, are drawing criwds of rats? What a bizarre relationship...
Is it a causal relationship, that is the question.
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