Posted on 03/04/2016 4:12:49 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
incredible
Who walks around with a pitch fork in New York City? Reminds me of the Gahan Wilson cartoon where the guy shoots an elephant in the city.
They make a nice coat.
You got rats on the west side
Bed bugs uptown
they used to call-em Super Rats... "Does your child know the difference between a cat and a rat?" was a commercial in the 70's-80's
“Dang! Are they sure it’s not a nutria?”
Taste better than raccoon, and definitely better than possum.
LOL!
Pretty damn big, but Washington D of C has them beat. Hands down.
To be technically precise in the agricultural vernacular, the implement pictured is a manure fork, not a pitch fork.
As to the basic question, I'd say it's probably because Bloomie and DeBlasio haven't thought to write a law for the control of pitch forks.
De Blazio is much bigger than that.
In Vn everyone ran into bunkers, made mostly of sandbags, during rocket attacks?mortar attacks. These bunkers were nesting sites for rats and the continual pounding and thumping crazed them so much they attacked the the habituees taking cover. One of the EOD guys brought peanut butter and electric blasting caps with him and when a rat got the peanut butter, he’d set off the blasting cap. He finally decided to wipe them out and put a softball size peanut butter with C4 in the middle out, the rat grabbed it, ran into the hole with wire snaking out. When the wire quit moving he touched it off and destroyed the whole side wall of the bunker. My ears were ringing as we stumbled out, dazed. “Think you used enough C4, Sparky?”
The most fun shooting in my life was at night in the city dump where I went to college - shooting rats with a .22 pistol! We could spend hours in the moonlight picking them off as they would scurry on well-worn paths (a “run”) between piles of trash.
Yes, one had to deal initially with the stench of the dump, but thankfully the olefactory nerves desensitize to a smell after prolonged exposure......
It was so much fun, once we started, we never wanted to leave - there is immense satisfaction hitting your evil target and watching the beast die - all the while knowing that you are doing a good deed by ridding the world of one more evil pest.
But one time I almost shot my foot when I was crossing a run and a whole pack came out of a pile of trash, and seeing my leg thinking it was simply a pile of trash to be climbed! Never put your foot in the middle of a run!
The poison doesn’t work. There was a ny post cover that said super rat. The article talked about the poison and how the rats just laughed at it.
And AL Sharpton in my toilet.
Do they vote in the Democ-RAT-ic primary?
True pitchforks typically have only two or three tines, while manure forks have four or more tines.
Pitchforks and scythes have frequently been used as weapons by those who couldn’t afford or didn’t have access to more expensive weapons such as swords, or, later, guns.[4] As a result, pitchforks and scythes are stereotypically carried by angry mobs or gangs of enraged peasants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchfork
The new “roof rabbit”.
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