Thanks C19fan. Wow, pigeons in a city? World travel isn't for everyone, for those who don't like it, there's Disneyworld.
Posted on 07/19/2019 8:53:30 AM PDT by C19fan
On a blistering July morning in Rome, a man in a white hazmat suit is collecting samples from a pile of festering and oddly shimmering liquid that has seeped from a dumpster into the cobblestone lanes near the Roman Colosseum.
Around the corner, traffic is backed up on a major street as a massively overfed seagull and a diseased-looking raven tussle over the carcass of a bloated rat. Garbage bags ripped open by rodents spill the contents—rotting food and curdled milk—onto picturesque squares. Citizens have taken matters into their own hands, liberally scattering rat poisoning in the overflowing dumpsters, but that means the smell of decomposing dead rodents and rotting waste permeates the air. And let’s not even talk about the size of the cockroaches that scatter when the city’s church bells toll.
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Luther made the same observations when he visited Rome.
Hasn’t Rome been a festering sore fr nearly 2500 years?.............
Birds are better than people.
I’ve always felt that rodent, animal and fish problems are simply an opportunity for recreation, hunters, fishing...
Turn that frown upside down and have some fun??!!!
Loved the Amalfi Coast.
But outside of the Coliseum and that area, Rome is a dump.
They’ve been making those observations at least since Caesar Augustus.
CC
No one goes there any more, too many tourists.
And lots and lots of little, and not so little gypsy, and not gypsy thieves and pickpockets.
Thanks C19fan. Wow, pigeons in a city? World travel isn't for everyone, for those who don't like it, there's Disneyworld.
“The carcass of a bloated rat”
Joy Behar died?
Why wasn’t I informed of this?
Sounds awesome for one’s microbiome!
I know of a friend’s son who’s chosen Rome for a semester abroad. Oh well.
“Liberally scattering Rat poison”
Liberals.....poisoning everything.
You know the old saying,
“When in Rome, be sure to fling rat poison around.”
I went in 1985 and was mugged by one of the pickpocket gangs. I will never return.
Is it true that gypsies are just European Indians?
Gypsies were originally from northwest India and moved out of the region 15 centuries ago. Gypsies are classified as Indo-Aryan. They are descendants of the Aryan people who moved into India from Central Asia and took over the place.
“Luther made the same observations when he visited Rome.”
Luther Campbell?
better than san fran which is awash in human poop and garbage.
Luther Vandross?
Yeah... I was going to say this is nothing new... but it is a little worse than when I was there about 10 years ago.
I’ll add another little tidbit to the mix that the article did not: It is not uncommon for the Mafia to get involved in garbage collection—they let garbage pile up until there is a health crisis, then work to get hired at a higher rate than normal to clean it up. It’s been going on in Naples this way for years.
Not sure if it’s now happening in Rome or not.
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