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Top 10 Worst Rat Cities In The World
Animal Planet ^ | Staff

Posted on 07/29/2019 11:52:55 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...

Baltimore's rat problem is bad enough that at one point, rats tunneled so intensely beneath a particular area of pavement that when garbage collectors drove over it, their truck sunk up to its axles. Rats in the vicinity took full advantage of the mishap and swarmed the truck, gorging on the garbage inside.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; cummings; democrats; trump
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Looking at the URL as one scroll through, Baltimore is #3. Sad.
1 posted on 07/29/2019 11:52:55 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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This unending evidence will swamp Democrats and expose them.


2 posted on 07/29/2019 11:53:42 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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Rat poison might be outlawed in California. I kid you not. A dead mountain lion was found in the mountains north of Los Angeles. He had rat poison in his system because he ate some rats.


3 posted on 07/29/2019 11:57:28 AM PDT by forgotten man
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re: “Rats in the vicinity took full advantage of the mishap and swarmed the truck”

Video?


4 posted on 07/29/2019 11:58:55 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: forgotten man

In DC the liberals want you to capture them and release them out in the wild; in Ohio it’s against the law to shoot them in your own cellar/basement.


5 posted on 07/29/2019 11:59:41 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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6 posted on 07/29/2019 11:59:56 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: forgotten man

i read that in Baltimore what did not kill the rats made them stronger, more reproductive


7 posted on 07/29/2019 11:59:59 AM PDT by SMGFan
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To: DoodleBob

Shadoobie!


8 posted on 07/29/2019 12:00:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I lived in Boston’s Back Bay for years. I’d ride my bike through the alleys as it was much faster to get from point A to point B.

There are so many restaurants along Boylston street and Newbury street you cant keep track of them all. These two street ran parallel to each other with an alley in the middle. All of these restaurants had dumpsters wide open with garbage spilling out 24/7. I was there for years and this was perfectly normal. No one ever did anything about it.

There was one section with dumpsters lined along the entire alley of the block. It got so bad I would not ride my bike down that alley.

A friend of mine in the extermination business told me a lot of effective poisons and others methods of killing these things off have now been banned. He claimed if the over the top rules continued he’d be fighting rats as they did in the 19th century.

Once when OI was flying down an alley a rat was running along side the curb of the alley keeping pace with me. I looked down and saw the thing - it was huge. Then he damned thing ran under my bike and my back tire went over him. I just kept on going. A bit later I returned using the same route. There was no indication of that rat being killed by my running him over. I weigh a bit over 250 pounds, the bike would be about 30 pounds - yet it had not died when I ran it over.

Boston has become a frantic, tension filled, expensive zoo in recent years. Pretty sad as it is my home but UI have been gone from there awhile now.


9 posted on 07/29/2019 12:03:24 PM PDT by warsaw44
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Thought the same thing.

Will not believe that bit of city folk lore unless I see footage.


10 posted on 07/29/2019 12:04:29 PM PDT by warsaw44
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I still can’t see the perhaps greatest lovers of animals - Animal Planet - lying about animals.


11 posted on 07/29/2019 12:06:31 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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To: _Jim

Animal Planet:

Lying racists?


12 posted on 07/29/2019 12:07:07 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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To: SkyDancer

Bring in all the terriers you find.There are plenty of videos that show how effective they are at killing rats.They’d have the time of their life doing it too.


13 posted on 07/29/2019 12:07:12 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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Like the alien “bug” in Men in Black didn’t want them killing roaches, the DemocRATS don’t want you killing the little furry variety. . . .


14 posted on 07/29/2019 12:07:42 PM PDT by RatRipper
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I'll see you, and raise you:

The Kinks - Rats

15 posted on 07/29/2019 12:15:09 PM PDT by Boogieman
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16 posted on 07/29/2019 12:15:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Farmer Dean

What type of terriers are best for killing rats? Do they mostly bite them on the neck and move on? Or some other method?


17 posted on 07/29/2019 12:18:49 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: SkyDancer

Shoot, shovel, shut-up.


18 posted on 07/29/2019 12:21:06 PM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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I have two. Rat terriers. I don’t think either of them has killed anything rodent but then one is a 9 yo that I just got from a shelter.


19 posted on 07/29/2019 12:22:41 PM PDT by MarMema (breeding tauntauns in northern Michigan - soon to be for sale!)
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To: warsaw44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voiqyfaqulQ
local news vid on the rat problem


20 posted on 07/29/2019 12:23:00 PM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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