Problem solved...............
Posted on 10/16/2018 1:44:50 PM PDT by Red Badger
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Furious tenants of a public housing project in the Bronx were pleading for help Monday, saying their buildings are overrun with rats — and they’re not kidding. They have the video to prove it.
But we should warn you, the pictures are not for the squeamish.
“I’m traumatized,” tenant Veronica Martinez told CBS2’s Marcia Kramer.
You’d be traumatized, too, if you had the same kitchen as Martinez.
Rats. An entire family of rats, some as big as cats, have taken over, hopping in the sink, into pots and pans. It’s absolutely gut wrenching.
“I should never have to experience not one but seven rats in my kitchen,” Martinez said. “It’s disgusting. All over the stove, the washing machine, they just invaded my apartment.”
And she’s not the only tenant at the New York City Housing Authority’s Claremont Consolidated Houses in the Bronx who are “ratting out” the problem.
“My wife can hardly sleep because you hear them in the walls,” one tenant said.
Asia Clemente’s 1-year-old son was bitten by a rat. She wants Mayor Bill de Blasio to fix the problem.
“If we’re paying you rent we deserve to live like human beings, not live like we’re savages, because we’re not,” Clemente said.
What makes the situation worse is that garbage is left out in the courtyard and the residents say it breeds more rats.
Tenant Marilyn Veguilla took a picture of the garbage there on Monday morning. Of course, it was magically cleaned up before reporters arrived, but some of the opened trash cans remained.
“I got small kids upstairs. There’s about four of us with asthma. We cant be dealing with this kind of condition,” Veguilla said.
“It was as if that family was living in a sewer, infested with rodents. I think we’re sick and tired of seeing the Housing Authority and the city at large treat NYCHA residents as second-class citizens,” Bronx City Councilman Richie Torres said.
Bronx Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson said Mayor de Blasio should see the conditions first hand.
“Come to Claremont Consolidated,” Gibson said, “and see how your residents, how our constituents, are living day to day. It’s not acceptable. You wouldn’t live like this.”
NYCHA agreed, saying it’s now taking steps to deal with the problem.
“Our residents should not have to live in these conditions. We apologize to our residents and will continue to vigilantly monitor this situation,” a spokesperson said in a statement.
The agency said it intends to come up with a comprehensive plan that will include inspections and fixing unsafe conditions.
Problem solved...............
Mmmmm......no
This is full on gov’t. housing, not sct.8
Its a shame that this happens but the reality is that if you live in the city in an old building, you will have rats. There is no way around it. Sometimes the rats will become an infestation and will have to be dealt with. But you will never get rid of them. This family needs to keep all dishes clean and not have any food that isn’t in a sealed container. That is the best thing they can do.
Was this one of the Recipes that Fauxahontas submitted to the Pow Wow Cookbook?
Tough to tell if they are squirrels or rats, either way they are nicely browned
“What makes the situation worse is that garbage is left out in the courtyard and the residents say it breeds more rats“
Cause and effect is a very important concept.
My Mom tells the story about living in an old farmhouse and one night was woken up by Dad laughing. She asked what he was laughing about. He was listening to a mouse (or rat) climb up the inside of the wall. The mouse almost got to the top but lost his grip and Dad heard him trying to grab hold as he fell all the way down the wall. Struck Dad as funny.
There were a lot of rats in that kitchen, but none of those were really that big. Certainly not the size of a cat.
It’s a shame rats have mingle with the likes of NYC....
Peanut butter works great, I agree! And it lasts longer than cheese.
I had mice in the house once. I trapped three with peanut butter. Then I tried those acoustic things you plug into an outlet - they double as night lights. Supposedly they drive the mice away with high pitched sounds that people can’t hear.
Boom! Gone from the house! I also closed up their egress in the basement. But I think the acoustic things worked. I still have them plugged in. Has anyone else tried these?
Either way.... it's taxpayer funded free housing, correct?
For some reason, can’t leave a comment at the site..
Must be some garbage around to attract them.
But then what will we do about the snakes?
We then bring in a certain type of gorilla that loves snake meat.
And then how do we deal with the gorillas?
Thats the beauty of it, we dont have to do anything. When winter comes, they just freeze to death!
How many people in these projects live like animals and leave trash and food everywhere? Don’t like living in the projects? Get a job, get ahead in life, and move. I’m so tired of people expecting others to take care of them when they won’t lift a finger to help themselves.
Dear tenants of government housing,
Get off your collective behinds and carry the trash out to the dump yourselves.
Instead of buying booze and drugs with the bit of cash you earn on your back or on the street, Buy some rat traps..take care of yourself for a change.
My Feist would lose her mind with all that prey.
A section 8 could be in a building with people who pay rent-—often high rent,
They would be well kept,at least by most of the occupants.
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“Can’t these numbnuts go down to the local hardware store and buy a few traps?”
If the young generation doesn’t even know how to mail a letter how the heck are they gonna know where to buy a rat trap?
Broiled or fried?
Rats like $hitholes...what can you say.
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