There are a lot of RATs around me too. Very disturbing. There are always lots of RATs around when you live or work near a University.
“Ben, you’re always running here and there.
You feel you’re not wanted anywhere.
Except in New York City.”
Note the Dunkin Donuts store next door…..
NYC rats can tunnel through anything except the hardest bedrock and steel.
You might see a street that looks brand new on top but actually completely empty below from rats tunneling.
Lots of mean nasty big rats in New York, especially on the subway tracks. They even climb into the subway trains every now and again.
I would think that many rats served as a cushion.
I think we need our cities to encourage their rat populations to make sudden sinkholes safer.
ABC’s district?
He should make a pretty penny in his lawsuit against the city.
I hate when the ground swallows me up and rats swarm me.
You got rats on the West Side, bedbugs Uptown.
Not a pleasant image does this create for me, and most likely many others.
typical behavior from rats
destroying everything in sight...and out of sight
“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 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.
Black men being attacked by holes. Time to riot.
