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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Same here. Got sick at least 2 years ago now. This is further confirmation that we shouldn’t go back. They still have a lot of problems going on.
It’s New York...
The rats have been feasting on much more than that for a long time, not just at Chipotle.
Carne Ratonada wrapped in a soft,
warm flour tortilla, topped with
guacamole and sour cream.
We skin ‘em out back.
“He not rat. He Siberian Ham(p)ster.”
Then there is the Resurrection Rat: Don't Believe in Resurrection? Watch This...
That’s big enough to make a rat hat from that one rat.
Regular zoo: Animal name & description.
Cajun zoo: Animal name & recipe
😄😄
86th st its called the DMZ zone.
Guess what?
California Governor Signs Bill Banning Most Rodenticide Uses - PCT - Pest Control Technology (starting Jan 1, 2021)
https://www.pctonline.com/article/california-governor-signs-rodenticide-ban-bill/
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 29 signed into law AB 1788, “The California Ecosystems Protection Act,” which prohibits most uses of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs). AB 1788 was passed by the California Legislature on Aug. 31.
AB 1788 prohibits most uses of rodenticides containing brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difenacoum or difethialone to reduce the poisoning of non-target wildlife until the re-evaluation by the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) is completed; the Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) also will play a consultation role in the re-evaluation.
The bill was in response to studies that showed the detectable levels of SGARs in wildlife had not declined despite a consumer ban of the products in 2014.
The pest control industry, including the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) and Pest Control Operators of California (PCOC), as well as other groups, had been working in opposition to AB 1788.
Chris Reardon, executive vice president of PCOC, said neither he nor PCOC members were surprised Newsom signed the bill into law, but they were disappointed. “Fear and emotion overtook fact and science,” he told PCT.
AB 1788 includes numerous exemptions including wineries, breweries, warehouses, factories, agricultural sites, medical facilities, and drug and medical equipment manufacturing facilities, etc. Reardon and others contend that with these exemptions, AB 1788 really does not protect wildlife from SGARs as the bill’s sponsors touted. “Guess what: Places that are exempt, like wineries, are directly adjacent to wildlife. The sponsors got what they wanted, but the fact of the matter is this bill does nothing to protect wildlife,” Reardon said.
AB 1788 is expected to go into effect Jan. 1, 2021, but Reardon said the California Department of Pesticide Regulation(CDPR) typically institutes a phase-out period for such matters. Reardon said he has been working with California Department of Pesticide Regulation to get clarity on how this implementation will take place. He added that the implementation could be challenging for CDPR because of the numerous exemptions/exceptions.
Reardon said California’s actions could have implications for the rest of the pest management industry. He said he would not be surprised if states such as Washington, Oregon and Massachusetts follow suit with similar bans. “For those states that think it could never be done, look at California,” he said.
NOTE the exemptions, wineries, breweries, warehouses, factories, agricultural sites, medical facilities, and drug and medical equipment manufacturing facilities, etc. all places the mega-rich put their money, many of which are directly located near wildlife which they purport to want to save from eating vermin in that has ingested the rodenticides, which, I might add, hasn’t shown any harm to them, they’ve just discovered minute traces of it in their bodies when picked up at the side of the road after being hit by cars.
I have a dream that we start collecting great big rats and take trucks filled with rats them and dump them in these politicians’ homes.
That is pretty much what I think of NYC.. it is fitting. Goes with all of the pierced, mohawk, spiked multicolored hair, tattooed crap that is raised there.
Well, it does look more like a nutria, than a rat.
Tell me again why Manhattan is so superior to flyover country again?
I was thinking the same thing...
Q: In light of recent events, how do we know that NYC didn't grow a brain...?
Note to residents of NYC: If I were you lot, I’d be taking your city and state to court over this last election.
Bubble gum. Feed them bags of bubble gum. They love the stuff but cant digest it and die of “impacted bowels”.
(Chipmunks and voles and mouses too!)
there’s rate in Portland...worse per a resident there for 25 yrs...my SIL lives in Sherwood and catchs rats in her backyard every single day...of course she fees the birds and other critters every single day with sugar coated cereal....she lives in a neighborhood with many houses butted up to them....
I’ve heard gum down a mole hole works well too....Juciy fruit espectially
I have not seen a chipmunch (sic) in a month! Me and a neighbor laid down a carpetbombing of doublebubble and and we are cleaning wrappers up all over the place. Almost none o them to be seen. Takes a while though!
I have not seen a chipmunch (sic) in a month! Me and a neighbor laid down a carpetbombing of doublebubble and and we are cleaning wrappers up all over the place. Almost none o them to be seen. Takes a while though!
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