Posted on 10/23/2015 3:11:18 PM PDT by PROCON
When New Yorkers see something scurrying, they say something and that has brought rat complaints to the city's 311 hotline to a recent high of more than 24,000 so far this year, officials said on Thursday.
'The rats are taking over,' New York City comptroller Scott Stringer told Reuters. 'I'm a lifelong New Yorker and I've never seen it this bad... I see them on my way home, they're standing upright, they say, "Good morning, Mr Comptroller."'
With more than two months of grumbling still left in 2015, rodent-related grievances were already at 24,375 as of Wednesday, said Mayor Bill de Blasio spokeswoman Natalie Grybauskas. That's up from 20,545 in 2014 and 19,321 in 2013.
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I read an article back in the 1980s on "The Royal Order of Rat Catchers". Esquire, GQ, or the like.
There was such a thing in England, and in the 1960s, the British equivalent of "frat boys" at a uni managed to revive the organization, more as an excuse to party than to actually reduce the animal vermin population.
I have the solution.
Import the homeless from San Francisco to NYC.
They’ll urinate and defecate everywhere, and the rats will move to find a cleaner place to live.
The rat and the pizza ended up as some illegal’s dinner. As Sylvester Stallone said in ‘Demolition Man’, “rattaburgers, pretty good”.
Looking at the videos and reading the stories I find in amazing that New York, for all its’ regulations and legion of government rules and regulations would allow businesses, apartment buildings and even private residences leave garbage on the street for removal in plastic garbage bags.
Most decent major cities have actual departments that fight infestation.
They have ‘rat patrols’ that are a group of workers who eliminate the potential rat and vermin problem through proactive measures like requiring garbage to be kept in containers with lids that close. Responding to complaints abut rats within several hours or a day and finding and eliminating the nests and potential hiding areas, constant baiting and removal of dead rats and the constant cleaning of public areas by street departments.
I can not believe they do not require covered dumpsters and trash containers. That alone eliminates a huge source fo the food that rats live on.
He can have it. No pepperoni.
New York has some rodents of unusual size.
Note to self - if ever in India, don't buy anything from the food carts!
GO RATS!!
Hamburger Stand Scrap: Este carne es de rata.
John Spartan: Rat? This is a rat burger?
Seems to me that with all the hungry people in the world, there oughta be a simple solution....no? Beats the hell out of Soylent Green.
Plague of rats?
Did you forget that liberals run and live in that city? Therefore facts and reality have no meaning. So they will probably never figure it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g5LDQVC1E0
Japan has an island overran with cats, seems like two problems that could cancel each other out.
And soon, our nation might be ruled by New York interests.
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