[Resolute Conservative]

Quit electing them.

[Mr. K]

offer a $5 bounty on each rat

done.

[Starboard]

I just realized this article is about rodents, not New York politicians. :)

[Obadiah]

Fearless Rats Have Commandeered Park In Woodside, Queens

Commandeered the White House and the Senate too.

[The Great RJ]

Allow selling rats as food in NYC. Just think of food vendors selling roasted rat on a stick or curried rat.

[NonValueAdded]

Congress is overrun with RATs and pseudoRATs

[Paine in the Neck]

As kids, we spent Saturday mornings at the town dump popping rats with our .22s. No one batted an eye, we had fun and the rat problem was contained. If kids did this now armored SWAT vehicles and black helicopters would respond.

[blueunicorn6]

Locusts? Frogs?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Until the rats are defeated by a Sharknado...

[MeshugeMikey]

a job.....for a WIENER!

he may not be fit to be MAYOR....but he could scare the rats away!!

[tumblindice]

“Rats are dirty. They’re disgusting.” he said. “The final straw was when they began sending photos of their genitals to one another.”

[Pearls Before Swine]

This sounds like optimal conditions for breeding plague.

[FLAMING DEATH]

Find 5 good ol’ American boys, hand them each a $100 air rifle and 1000 pellets, and turn them loose. Problem solved.

We’d have KILLED to have such a ready-made shooting gallery when we were kids.

Instead, I guess those boys will be going to Camp Twink.

[GoldenPup]

Queens remains overrun with rats.

And most of them vote.

[SES1066]

I would suggest cats but they would just get fat and move to Central Park with the rest of their kind.

[EinNYC]

The reason the rats are there is because people are being slobs and not taking proper care of their garbage. That area is largely Hispanic, with a large dose of Muzzies as well. The park, barely a speck of green in the midst of a concrete jungle, is right next to an overhead subway line, with all the trash discarded by subway riders. Across the street are several restaurants, with overflowing dumpsters in the back. Lots of rat food! Also, the City is very negligent about emptying trash receptacles on City streets. Many are overflowing, making a rat buffet.

Instead of using poisons, to which rats can become less susceptible and from which raptors can die from eating poisoned rats, why not use hawks as a natural rat control? Bring in area falconers with their hawks. The rat problem would be addressed without poisons or bullets in the City. The many pairs of redtailed hawks now residing in the city eat scores of rats. Rats, along with pigeons and squirrels, actually seem to comprise most of their diet.

[dfwgator]

So that’s where Weiner would up?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“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.