Posted on 10/23/2015 3:11:18 PM PDT by PROCON
When New Yorkers see something scurrying, they say something and that has brought rat complaints to the city's 311 hotline to a recent high of more than 24,000 so far this year, officials said on Thursday.
'The rats are taking over,' New York City comptroller Scott Stringer told Reuters. 'I'm a lifelong New Yorker and I've never seen it this bad... I see them on my way home, they're standing upright, they say, "Good morning, Mr Comptroller."'
With more than two months of grumbling still left in 2015, rodent-related grievances were already at 24,375 as of Wednesday, said Mayor Bill de Blasio spokeswoman Natalie Grybauskas. That's up from 20,545 in 2014 and 19,321 in 2013.
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DeBlasio, for instance.
A little hantavirus and bubonic plague should make for a good news cycle.
LOL, and of course it would be blamed on the Republican Congress and/or global warming.
Why can’t they just round them all up when they go to vote at the ballot box?
Oh man. When’s the last time I saw Rat Fink!
When I was a kid, my parents bought a former dairy farm that they turned into a horse property. I remember when we moved in, the barns were overrun with rats, which then used to attract big ole snakes. We were given a couple of fully grown cats and they were terrified of the rats. They were good with small field mice, but they ran from the rats. When you walked into one of our barns, there was a sort of catwalk where the dairy farmer could throw silage to his cows from above, and I would walk in there and turn on the lights and could look down to see a herd of rats sitting in one of the stalls, munching on a fresh pile of poo. It was disgusting. I got into the habit of banging on the metal feed bins when I went into the feed room to scatter them. They freaked me out. Once, our German Shepherd caught a big one in the manure pile, but it shrieked and she dropped it. She never went after another one after that.
After my dad came face to face with a 6 foot snake in the machine shed, he decided he'd had enough and put out poison. The next day, I walked in to the feed room and there were six huge rats in the last stages of dying right next to the feed bins. Never had any problems with rats after that, but it still gives me nightmares.
It would never happen. The Pied Piper was strictly 'free enetrprise' and de Blasio is not. Of course, if de Blasio DID hire him, he would probably do the same as the Mayor of Hamelin did!
Democrats and Liberals run cities that function at least a little. The fact that a city is infested with rats is more incompetent than your average Democrat cesspool.
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