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NYC: Worst Rat Infestation In The World
Breitbart Big Government ^ | 24 Jan 2014 | by ROBERT WILDE

Posted on 06/04/2014 3:21:47 PM PDT by kingattax

The popular and informational television station Animal Planet has named New York City the worst city for rats in the world. In this case, they are not referring to politicians.

We are talking about “Rattus norvegicus,” otherwise known as the "brown rat." Brown rats are a scourge to rural and urban areas and are one of the most serious pests on the planet, carrying diseases and multiplying at exponential speed. One pair of rats can multiply up to 200 times in just one year.

They are adept at climbing, swimming, and yes, working their way thru a serpentine of sewer pipes and exiting your toilet bowl. It is estimated that NYC has twice as many rats as they do humans. If you run the math, that would total about 16 million rats.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: newyork; rat; rattusnorvegicus
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To: kingattax

i don’t think we should ask where you found that valuable bit of intel.


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21 posted on 06/04/2014 3:56:17 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Where is your thinking cap? The one you were issued in elementray school.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

i know. your post made it sound classified and that was a bad attempt at humor on my part. :)


22 posted on 06/04/2014 3:57:57 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: kingattax
One pair of rats can multiply up to 200 times in just one year.

How can that be if the gestation period is 3 weeks?

23 posted on 06/04/2014 3:58:37 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: kingattax

I am glad Ilive in the Atlanta suburbs. I have not seen a rat in 20 years.


24 posted on 06/04/2014 4:11:03 PM PDT by amnestynone (Lindsey Graham is a feckless, duplicitous, treacherous, double dealing backstabbing corksucker.)
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To: kingattax

And that’s just the banks...


25 posted on 06/04/2014 4:17:33 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: amnestynone

you smell all that BBQ every night ? thats why.


26 posted on 06/04/2014 4:17:42 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: Lizavetta

200 is the number of offspring.


27 posted on 06/04/2014 4:18:55 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: kingattax

Wow, I don’t know what is worse, the 4 legged rats or the 2 legged rats. NYC deserves both. No offense to people who are decent suffering through this scourge.


28 posted on 06/04/2014 4:23:41 PM PDT by dforest
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To: amnestynone

I hear Herpetology scares away rats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7iqVfrGY7w

More seriously: http://www.marshall.edu/herp/snakes/black_ratsnake.htm


29 posted on 06/04/2014 4:24:37 PM PDT by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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To: Lizavetta

The gestation time means nothing, the male NYC rat moves from one broad rat to the next. He doesn’t hang around for the birth. LOL

Many humans do the same thing, except we have to pay for their little spawns. I guess rats are better.


30 posted on 06/04/2014 4:26:57 PM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest
The gestation time means nothing, the male NYC rat moves from one broad rat to the next. He doesn’t hang around for the birth. LOL

I know that.

It said "one pair of rats can multiply up to 200 times" in a year. I took that to mean A PAIR, i.e. the SAME male and female. Lousy writing.

31 posted on 06/04/2014 5:53:15 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: kingattax
200 is the number of offspring.

Then they should have said a pair can create 200 offspring a year. What they said was one pair of rats can multiply up to 200 times a year. To me that means mate, not create.

32 posted on 06/04/2014 5:56:25 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: blackdog

Yeh we have a Gamo air rifle and it does the job on squirrels and rats.


33 posted on 06/04/2014 6:09:43 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: kingattax

That’s interesting. I lived in NYC for a while decades ago and that’s easy to imagine.

Now I live near woods, the worst pests are the roaming hungry herds of wild deer carrying Lyme disease ticks, and maybe a few poison snakes, but they stay in the woods unlike the deer.

But rats are not a problem even if garbage is left outside, I can see the wild foxes roaming around looking for live food like them.


34 posted on 06/04/2014 7:46:16 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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