[mhking]

Just damn.

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[11th Earl of Mar]

I would bet the landlord is also "pro-choice." [As long as you make a liberal choice]

[finnman69]

Her tenants will be able to sue her ass off and win for not dealing with vermin.

[socal_parrot]

So I guess a taxidermy shop is out of the question.

[RonF]

If the owner doesn't want tenants that sell animal products, etc. that's his right, as long as it's in the lease and isn't something he came up with later. But I'll bet that allowing insects to overrun the place is a building or health code violation.

[gc4nra]

... and people make fun of L.A.!

[Snowy]

Anyone have this landlord's address?

[70times7]

Well, at least there is the opportunity to relocate the ants... to the landlords house.

[martin_fierro]

Jeanne Daniels, mall owner and PETA nut (with color-coordinated pet).

[cake_crumb]

"When bridal shop owner Nancy Owen found ants in her store, she had two choices: relocate the critters or relocate her shop"

Where's the Health Department when you need it?

[r9etb]

"If you don't have to cause animals to suffer – even the animals we don't understand so well like ants or mice or chickens – why not choose to be kind rather than to be cruel?” asked PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich.

I'm still waiting for Mr. Friedrich to have his immune system removed -- look at all the poor, misunderstood bacteria and viruses it kills every day....

[mewzilla]

I think the landlord's seen one too many screenings of Joe's Apartment...

[Ima Lurker]

This information was clearly stated in the lease. If they didn't want to abide by the landlords rules they shouldn't have signed the lease. Now, having said that, we're talking about ants here!! For goodness sake just put a few of those ant hotel thingys under the counters and shut up about it.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Are they allowed to wash their hands? Or is killing bacteria verboten as well?

[sauropod]

Good for Owen.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Is it possible to relocate the insects by vacuming them up and moving them to Peta HQ? And give them some food for the trip!

[Robert A Cook PE]

(Hope she doesn't get termites in that old wooden building of hers. Hint. Hint.)

Somehow, I don't think she used any pressure-treated evil-insecticide-full lumber in those foundations, right?

[swarthyguy]

It's her RE and flaky tho' she is, it's a victory for property rights, hers. No one has to rent from her.

Should the state step in and force her to rent to businesses catering to carnivores.

How 'bout smokers?

[meyer]

AUSTIN — When bridal shop owner Nancy Owen found ants in her store, she had two choices: relocate the critters or relocate her shop. Extermination was not an option.

This might be one of those rare instances where the city health department might step in. Ants in the store? Squish them and take the goofy landlord to court.

[dfwgator]

In the immortal words of Tyrone Green, "Kill my landlord, kill my landlord. C-I-L-L my landlord."