Why aren't the environmentalists weighing in on this? Where is the HEALTH DEPT.? Let's hope AMERICAN TAXPAYERS won't be forced to pick up the tap for a failed social experiment.
Posted on 02/07/2019 3:46:50 PM PST by EinNYC
LOS ANGELES CITY HALL is infested with rats, and officials are asking the city to remove the carpeting amid a typhus outbreak in the area.
City County President Herb Wesson submitted a motion Wednesday requesting the city conduct an investigation into the "scope of vermin and pest control issues" in City Hall and its adjoining buildings. Employees have reported seeing rats in several offices and at least two workers say they have been bitten by fleas, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Wesson is seeking an estimate of costs to remove all the carpeting from the buildings and replace it will alternative flooring.
"Employees shouldn't have to come to work worried about rodents," Wesson told the Times. "I intend to do whatever it is we need."
Workers have reportedly seen evidence of rats in multiple offices, including tiny paw prints on desks and signs that the rodents were nesting in potted plants. During a Halloween party last year, a rat chewed through a pumpkin decoration. Wesson told the Times that he moved his staff out of City Hall to a nearby building because the situation had gotten so bad.
According to the Times, a deputy city attorney contracted typhus last year and had a 102-degree fever. Elizabeth Greenwood works in City Hall East, a building connected to City Hall. Greenwood told the Times she has not returned to work since November because she is "terrified of entering the building again until they do something."
Wesson's motion includes a call for an audit of all the live plants in every city-owned and city-operated building, including the varieties that "are most attractive to vermin." Additionally, Wesson wants the city to implement a policy that requires employees to secure food in their offices and have custodial staff throw out food that is left out.
The motion follows a typhus outbreak in Los Angeles County in October during which health officials warned people to avoid wild animals, including rats. Typhus is a group of diseases spread to humans from lice and fleas, according to the CDC. Murine, or endemic, typhus the strain in Los Angeles, infects people when infected flea feces are rubbed into cuts or scrapes in skin. The CDC says it most often occurs where rats and their fleas live.
Symptoms of Murine typhus include fever, chills, body aches, vomiting, stomach pain and a rash.
Lol!
Why aren't the environmentalists weighing in on this? Where is the HEALTH DEPT.? Let's hope AMERICAN TAXPAYERS won't be forced to pick up the tap for a failed social experiment.
Yeah, the new cool is teflon-coated steel mesh for everything, including beds and sofas. Total wash down, TENV everything.
Also don't forget to get rid of all right-angle corners between walls, floors, and ceilings.
I guess it never occurred to these fools that you can get rid of the rodent problem by getting rid of the source of the problem.
You want to get rid of rats? Get rid of food and garbage! Rats need a constant source of food to survive.
All aboard! Next stop The Black Plague.
All aboard! Next stop The Black Plague.
Which one is shxting on the carpets the 4 legged or 2 legged?
Somehow, biblical plagues come to mind.
Both probably. If I had to name one over the other, I would say the two legged type. Their description begins with demo.
“Most attractive to vermin”
I think lady vermin like a nice begonia corsage while the male vermin prefer a simple, but elegant, carnation.
Ping
Overrun by Rats, LA City Hall Eyes Removing Carpets = rearranging deck chairs on Titanic
It is a third world.
The taxpayers from 49 states are the only thing keeping Cali from being a full fledged third world shitville.
Most city halls in America are overrun by Rats these days unfortunately. Rude insidious leftist Rats.
New York
San Francisco
Chicago
Miami
Los Angeles ← new
They are using this as an excuse to redecorate at our expense.
“The taxpayers from 49 states are the only thing keeping Cali from being a full fledged third world shitville.”
No, California is one of the producer states and pays more revenue to the federal budget than it takes in by far. It is still a gigantic economy.
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