Posted on 10/27/2020 12:19:47 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Leonard Shoulders, 33, had been waiting on a bus at 3rd Avenue across from Saint Barnabas Hospital on Saturday when the sidewalk caved in Surveillance footage shows him falling into the dark hole Shoulders was unable to get out of the hole for more than 30 minutes He refused to scream because there were rats in the pit, worried they would crawl into his mouth
Surveillance footage shows the moment that Shoulders falls into the sidewalk, trying to hold on and ultimately plummet 12 to 15ft.
'The Full Vacate Order is still in effect, and a construction fence has been erected around the building in the interest of public safety.'
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I don’t know. I didn’t venture into the actual article to find out. 8>)
Bronx Lives, uh, never mind, DeBlasio doesn't care.
He’s very old, 15 1/2..........................
“You’re in our hood now!” said the rat. “Oh by the way, does you has any peanut butter?”
A friend’s office in Manhattan overlooked a huge crater left by the razing of an adjoining office building. He said that it was filled with thousands of scurrying rats.
Rodents of Unusual Size. Stay out of the fire swamp.
Not a pleasant image does this create for me, and most likely many others.
And if you have read “1984”... no helmet cage needed in the subterranean pits of NYC.
The credits for movies like that always crack me up.
“Rat wrangler “ is a thing.
:D
There’s a great OTR drama called “Three Skeleton Key”. Originally a French short story, it was adapted a few times for radio.
I think Vincent Price did it twice.
Any way, a ship grounds on a lighthouse island, and rats swarm off the ship in search of food, aka, the lighthouse keepers.
It’s the “rat groomer” that gets me.
;>)
He might enjoy one last meal....
Don’t they usually self-groom?
;D
Love Feists!
Not at all surprising.
You do not build “up” everywhere, with nearly every building a multistory building and with little of the landscape not occupied by buildings, streets or sidewalks, without putting all the utilities nearly always underground.
That means, in a place like New York City, you have hundreds of thousands of miles of underground pipelines, conduits and often literal tunnels for the same. Then add all the miles of subway train tunnels, and most often building basements at the level of all I just mentioned, and you have a heaven, not just a haven - a heaven for rats.
Chase them out of one building (or block, or neighborhood) and they just mover to other buildings (blocks or neighborhoods), along the many underground “rat highways” you built for them.
High human population density supplies an environment that is rewarding to many things human’s experience as pests, whether animals or communicable diseases.
Oh boy, is she a beautiful girl. I hate to admit — I had never heard of a mountain feist until I read your post. Googled. So pretty much a small game hunting dog — but not a ratter like a Jack Russell or the like? I am intrigued.
Abby is a beauty.
Of course being born in 1952, I didn't read them when they were published, but probably 20+ years after they were published. My thinking was that if they hadn't come true after all these years, they never would. But then youth always makes you more of an optimist. As you age you become more of a pessimist, at least I did. Besides that I have proven to myself that I wasn't much of a visionary back in my youth. That has changed somewhat, as well, as I aged. 8>)
Black men being attacked by holes. Time to riot.
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