Posted on 04/19/2018 8:06:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is on a campaign to wipe out the large populations of rats that plague the city and, in particular, some of the city’s housing projects. Yesterday, he gave a presentation on his plan while sitting behind a large sign that read "Watch Out Rats!" "We love our city but our city is associated for many generations with the problem of rats," de Blasio said. He then outlined a new approach to the problem which involved the use of dry ice to humanely suffocate entire rat colonies in their burrows.
In order to demonstrate this new technique de Blasio and workers from the city’s housing authority went to Brooklyn and dropped dry ice in a burrow. What happened next wasn’t part of the demonstration. From the NY Post:
Mayor de Blasio and workers from the Housing Authority were outwitted by the rodent during a press event at a Bushwick project when it triumphantly escaped their clutches as they attempted to demonstrate a new high-tech extermination technique.
Like a scene from "Tom and Jerry," workers fruitlessly tried to stomp on the agile rodent when it scurried from a hole in which dry ice had been dropped in an effort to control the furry pests.
One worker even swung a shovel at the plucky rat in a comical whack-a-mole routine.
But no one could lay a hand on the tiny animal, which dodged all the would-be rat-slayers at the Bushwick Houses and scampered to safety at a playground on Humboldt Street.
You can see video of the rat escaping de Blasio’s death squad about 4 minutes into this clip posted by the Mayor himself.
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Thought he wanted to outlaw co2.
Visions of Carter and the rabbit.
“Watch Out Rats!” “We love our city but our city is associated for many generations with the problem of rats,” de Blasio said.
Yeah, DemocRATS. Watch Out !!!
The City, County, and State of New York could use fewer Rats..
The ‘Rats threatening Upstate are two-legged.
I had every confidence that hiring a corrupt rat would provide the best means of exterminating rats. This is sooo disappointing.
Ah, now that he has solved minor issues like crime and corruption, he is getting to the real nitty gritty!
Watch out rats ?
Wow really bad optics who thought this was a good idea ?
Dry Ice?
THAT’S CO2!
THEY ARE KILLING MOTHER GAIA!.......................
Yakkity sax comes to mind.
You can’t get rid of vermin by just killing them off. More vermin will shortly show up to take their place.
You get rid of vermin by cutting off their access to food, then they will remove themselves.
That plucky rat just put paid to any national aspirations Kaiser Wilhelm had...
they’d do better if they dropped that dry ice at de Blasio’s house, and get rid of the head rat.
Maybe he intends to use "Global Warming" to kill the rats???
Is the mayor changing parties?
Its like improving the school systems - after you’ve dumped massive amounts of money into them, had endless public education campaigns, created massive bureaucracies, and tried to move heaven and earth....
At some point you have to realize, its never going to change with your present citizens.
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