Posted on 12/08/2020 4:22:50 PM PST by conservative98
Workers at an Upper Manhattan Chipotle restaurant say they’ve been fighting a losing battle against hordes of hungry rats — and a management team that let the infestation get so bad that four staffers have been bitten by the massive rodents.
The besieged fast-casual Mexican joint on Broadway near West 169th Street in Washington Heights closed to customers indefinitely late last month, but only after rats chewed through the wiring of a computer system that handled orders, two employees told The Post.
In the meantime, those workers are still going into the store to clean, in an effort to keep the vermin at bay.
They say they’ve killed dozens of the rodents by stomping on them, smacking them with broom handles, dropping boxes on them and various other medieval methods of extermination.
“It really started to take a toll on us,” said Melvin Paulino, a three-year veteran at the store who was bitten by a rat last Friday while cleaning. “We’re all scared, it’s pretty common that some of my co-workers will just start screaming out of the blue
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And in the death,
As the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy
Thoroughfare,
The shutters lifted in inches in Temperance Building,
High on Poacher’s Hill.
And red, mutant, eyes gaze down on Hunger City.
No more big wheels.
Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats,
And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes,
Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers,
Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue.
Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now leg-warmers.
Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald.
Any day now,
The year of the Diamond Dogs.
“This ain’t Rock’n’Roll,
This is Genocide.”
David Bowie-Diamond Dogs
I thought it was 96th street — above that was sketchy, to say the least.
My conservative Filipino bud told me once that if there’s a Chinese resto right beside a pet shop, don’t eat there.
You sure that ain’t a coon?
Technically you could make a case for 110th Street - that’s where Central Park ends and Harlem begins.
May the black plague spread rapidly!😎
Chipotle has had a number of “poor management scandals” and tainted food over the years that I’m surprised they can still remain a viable business. I never eat there. Now they have rats? Wonder if they use them in the salad?
Shades of David Bowie’s introduction to “Diamond Dogs” (Future Legend):
“Fleas the size of rats
sucked on rats the size of cats
And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes
Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers
Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue”
You got rats on the West Side
Bedbugs Uptown
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITzqf-nVZyE
Dead cat, dead rat
Can’t you see what they were at?
Fat cat in a top hat
Thinks he’s an aristocrat...
The Doors.
Maybe if the restaurant didn't serve 'Rat patrons, these 'Rats would not be feasting on avocados and biting employees.
Oh wait, what kind of NYC 'Rats are we talking about here anyway?
DaCommieo’s fault.
R-I-C
See you in the sewer, suckers
K-E-Y
Why? Because we're vermin
R-A-T!
Try about 2 jack russell Terriers.
Ha good one!
Try about 2 jack russell Terriers.
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What sauce and sides go best with that?
The only way you get lots and lots of big rats is if they are eating well.
DeBlasio has his own mobsters
laissez les bon temps rouler...
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