Posted on 08/01/2013 7:13:38 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
Neighbors and a local city councilman have called on the city to step up its efforts, as a park in Woodside, Queens remains overrun with rats.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
You can’t have a squad of cats brought there to kill the rats and then whistle for them to come back to their handler. And why would you subject cats to close proximity with these diseased vermin? Your cats would pick up fleas, ticks, and some very nasty diseases from them. If you mean dumping a bunch of feral cats there, that would just be plain cruel. What do they eat after the rats? And then, what about the fleas and diseases? They would not be brought to a vet to be treated. They would have no shelter, no homes. Turn a bunch of idiot kids out with pellet guns? That’s a sure recipe for disaster. The ERs in the area would be overrun with kids shot up with pellets, the area vets would be overrun with pets injured, too.
Geez, you are tightly wound, aren’t you?
The red-tailed hawks would take care of all felines other than red-blooded, Viking Kitty rat-catchers.
Since hawks are pretty much at the top of their food chain, I suppose you bring in even larger hawks to control the eventual hawk problem, or Slow Joe and his shotgun.
So that’s where Weiner would up?
wound up.
For the rats you need both an air and armor assault.
The Falconer and the good ole boys with air rifles and a few cases of Bud will do the trick.
Be enterprising an open up a range and falconer training facility. Charge 5 bucks an hour.
“Who you gonna call?”
“Rent-a-Terrier!”
I believe the world record went to a rat terrier-pit bull mix who killed something like 1000 rats in an hour. A Jack Russell terrier was the fastest, however, at 100 rats in a minute.
I think that “rat bulls” have long been illegal in the UK, as they were a preferred dog of poachers.
the price has to be high enough
at $10 a rate maybe?
The cost SAVINGS from eliminating desease and destruction would be worth it
FREE rat poison provided, free cages... I dunno
Set free enterprise loose and you will sovle the problem
Ok what is that from? .... it is making me crazy
I am thinking it was either a movie about a computer I vaguely remember OR a twilight zone episode about a guy who lived in a glass room because someone bet him he could not stop talking for a year.
As I said before, this is a highly urban area, not like some cornfield out in the middle of Podunk. You can't encourage kids to use BB guns to kill the rats because they don't have BB guns, they have real ones--this neighborhood is a Hispanic gang location. The entire park is a tiny speck of green. A bullet's trajectory would probably exceed the length of this park. You certainly don't want people taking potshots at rats and missing, hitting someone's kid or ricocheting off one of the nearby steel supportive posts for the elevated subway line adjacent to the park.
Eliminate the garbage tossed into the street, the nearby overflowing dumpsters and trash receptacles and the rats go elsewhere.
It’s from an episode of Superman, where he sets up a tape recording and a sillouette of himself so he can foil the crooks before they can despoil Lois Lane, or something.
ahhhhhhhhh!! I remember that!!
And they sit someone down and put a suit jacket over the chair to make it look like superman is sitting down
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.