Flash: UC Berkeley Bulldozes People's Park to Make It More "Sanitary".

Berkeley Daily Planet ^ | 12/28/11 | Carol Denney and Planet

[SmithL]

[TaMoDee]

Oh, The horror!! /s/

[ElkGroveDan]

In response to park users and neighbor concerns, we are doing maintenance work to address the rat infestation

After all the "Occupy" stories this summer of filth and sickness in their encampments and now this, maybe these hippies will start to learn, "back to nature" means dirt, feces, odors, and disease. Modern capitalist civilization means few rats, clean living and modern conveniences that send poop far away. It's really not difficult to understand.

[Hunton Peck]

decades of community garden

How many square feet in a decade, again? I forget.

[JakeS]

Way to small, I would have been glad to let them rent one of these. With a weight of around 100 tons, and 770 horsepower, and a price tag just a bit over a million, the Cat D11N is clearly one of the big guys and doesn't rent cheap, but it sure will clean up that park in no time at all.

[ken in texas]

That would be 10 dodecamonths.

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[SmithL]

Paging Rachel Corrie!

[zbogwan2]

To bad they didn’t bring in this dozer when all the two legged vermin were infesting the park?

[Hunton Peck]

Thanks. I was gonna write down 20 pentateuchs.

[CrazyIvan]

“Way to small, I would have been glad to let them rent one of these. With a weight of around 100 tons, and 770 horsepower, and a price tag just a bit over a million, the Cat D11N is clearly one of the big guys and doesn't rent cheap, but it sure will clean up that park in no time at all.”

Oh come on! Why go halfway? Get the armored version the military uses. I live near Peoria and there was one of those beasts at the Cat plant when I went by one day. That's about as malevolent looking a machine as I've ever seen.

[HiTech RedNeck]

What irony.

Although as concerns the vermin, why not a few colonies of cats? That’s about as green a solution to rats as you can get. (Green eyed that is.)

[afraidfortherepublic]

Arthur Fonseca commented...

Fonzie?

[SaraJohnson]

So a bunch of water melons in the 70’s, took over land from the University and pronounced it the “people’s park.” At the end of 2011, the University finally reclaims the land from the commies.

Biserkly.

[re_nortex]

And the University of Texas Longhorns bulldozed the Cal Berserkley Teddy Bears tonight in the Holiday Bowl.

21-10

Mack Brown could have RUTS (first and goal) at the end but he took pity on the Tedfords.

[smokingfrog]

They’ll have to bulldoze the entire campus if they really want to get rid of the rat infestation.

... But that wouldn’t really be fair to the rodents.

[shibumi]

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[wolfcreek]

HOOK’EM \m/

[JakeS]

Oh come on! Why go halfway? Get the armored version the military uses. I live near Peoria and there was one of those beasts at the Cat plant when I went by one day. That's about as malevolent looking a machine as I've ever seen.

They won't sell me one. And they really aren't much good in the timber industry. Unless you think about the EPA...

[Salamander]

Cats are not the most efficient eradicators of rodents.

Terriers are.

A small pack of JRTs let loose for a few days would’ve ended it.

The feral cats slinking around here do nothing but drive outdoor mice into the house, seeking safety.

My Portuguese Podengo Medio then dispatches them with extreme prejudice [and horribly disturbing “joy”] and often presents them to me as a gory little “gifts”.