Lawmaker Says Rats Are Jumping Into Strollers In Upper West Side Parks [video at link]

WCBS New York ^ | 9 Aug 2017 | John Montone

[seanmerc]

Hungry rodents are apparently menacing parents, nannies and babies on the Upper West Side.

There are about 2 million rats in New York City, and some have settled in Central Park and Riverside Park.

[mewzilla]

This little gem is from 2007....

NYC Health Commissioner: Rats Are Not A Health Risk

[subterfuge]

Nice...

[blueunicorn6]

In Spain, they have the running of the Bulls.

In NYC, it’s the running of the rats.

Brings the tourists in like crazy.

[ex91B10]

Probably lowers the food cost for most Chinese restaurants.

[blueunicorn6]

“Welcome to the 107th Westminster Cage Club’s Rat Show.

This year, we have several new breeds. There is the Stroller-Jumping Rat and my favorite, the Bill DiBlassio Bluetail. You won’t find it in the Working Rat class.”

[subterfuge]

Then you have to bring in mongooses, we mongeese(?) to take out the cobras. What eats mongoose?

[Savage Beast]

Another Democrat success story!

[353FMG]

What can you expect? NYC is saturated with democRATS.

[blueunicorn6]

I don’t know.

Maybe a Dashhound.

[Bodleian_Girl]

You need some kind of award for always interjecting the perfect song lyrics on so many threads.

I caught one yesterday I meant to applaud you for, I just can’t remember which thread it was on.

[AZLiberty]

Florida has a surplus of pythons. Trouble is, if they were taken to New York, they’d want to go back to Florida for the winter.

[Mr. K]

Offer a bounty - $25 per rat

ONLY for adult rats above a certain size (otherwise morons would start breeding them)

And only for one month (or the moron would start breeding them)

[blueunicorn6]

That’s why we give them gloves.

Then they’ll stay in NYC over the winter ice skating and having snowball fights.

See, it’s this kind of out-of-the-box thinking that would make me a great Mayor of NYC.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Oh....real rats. I was picturing strollers full of dems.

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[FatherofFive]

When I first glanced at the headline, I thought democrats were attacking children....

Funny. My first thought as well.

[LeonardFMason]

WILLARD(Bill) DeBlasio!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Don’t the rats know they are supposed to stay in bad neighborhoods, such as Bedford-Stuyvesant??

This is making news because the rats are going into a better neighborhood.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Some of those rats are as big as a cat. Bring in the coyotes. :-)

[Zarro]

I was picturing deBlasio.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

"It seemed impossible that he’d chosen to live here [New York City],
at a latitude where spring was a semantic variation on winter, in a
grid whose rigid geometry only a Greek or a builder of prisons could love,

in a city that made its own gravy when it rained.”

―― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire