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Rats Take Over At NYC Fast-Food Restaurant
myfoxtwincities.com ^ | 02/23/07 | fox

Posted on 02/23/2007 6:53:25 AM PST by Ellesu

Rats have taken over a fast-food restaurant in New York City's Greenwich Village. (WNYW Image) Compiled by MyFox Staff Reports

NEW YORK -- Aww, rats.

That's what people are saying about a fast-food restaurant in New York City's Greenwich Village.

And those are the rodents that have taken over at the KFC/Taco Bell on 6th Avenue and 4th Street.

A viewer called a local television station in New York to give a tip, and a short time later, Fox's local affiliate, WNYW, was shooting live video for its morning show of about a dozen rats prancing around the dining room and underneath the machines back in the kitchen area.

Passersby expressed their dismay to WNYW, which reported that the scene quickly turned into a media frenzy, with cameras everywhere and amazed neighbors watching in disbelief.

A December inspection by the Board of Health gave the restaurant 10 violation points, including three citations, one of which was "Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility's food and/or non-food areas."


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: nyc; rats; tacobell

1 posted on 02/23/2007 6:53:27 AM PST by Ellesu
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2 posted on 02/23/2007 6:55:01 AM PST by Ellesu
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To: Ellesu

Somehow, Hillary and Barak look different on television ... Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk


3 posted on 02/23/2007 6:56:31 AM PST by TexGuy
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LOL, that didn't take long.


4 posted on 02/23/2007 6:57:57 AM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: Ellesu

They also took over the House and Senate


5 posted on 02/23/2007 7:21:40 AM PST by lormand (Michael Wiener - the tough talking populist moron, who claims to be a Conservative)
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To: Ellesu
Tammany Hall is nearby! Case Closed!
6 posted on 02/23/2007 7:43:48 AM PST by Young Werther
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I thought it was Democrats.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

7 posted on 02/23/2007 7:49:24 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Ellesu

Whew!

I'm relieved to know that the hair that was in my burrito wasn't human pubic hair.

Instead, it was rat hair!


8 posted on 02/23/2007 8:01:49 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Ellesu
Tastes like chicken....
9 posted on 02/23/2007 8:49:08 AM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("God made liquor and God made brew, so ugly people could have sex too" - unknown)
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To: Ellesu

No comment from KFC/Taco bell?


10 posted on 02/23/2007 8:52:14 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Ellesu

Used to enjoy watching this on the Discovery Channel.

The best parts were seeing how New Yawkers either could 1) live in such squalid conditions; or 2) take novel approaches to dealing with those conditions.

The show featured this one robotic City code-enforcement employee. What a hack.

Then there was the guy with the "rat bat."

11 posted on 02/23/2007 8:58:50 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Disgusting......


12 posted on 02/23/2007 9:15:45 AM PST by Fawn (LEMME IN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkMIdfwo32Y&eurl=)
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http://www.theindychannel.com/news/11093729/detail.html

Video at this link, I have to say that is pretty disgusting...

13 posted on 02/23/2007 9:37:44 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: Ellesu
Two months earlier, the restaurant had been cited with having "evidence of live mice," but since then, the Health Department Web site shows that the issue was resolved.

I didn't see any mice either. Not even one.

14 posted on 02/23/2007 10:09:55 AM PST by kylaka
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To: Publius6961; windcliff

Hmmmmmmm. Is this the Colonel's secret ingredient?


15 posted on 02/23/2007 3:44:10 PM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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To: Ellesu

KFC/Taco Bell Corporation should close down the restaurant and fine the Manager of unacceptable sanitary conditions.


16 posted on 02/23/2007 3:47:11 PM PST by MinorityRepublican (Everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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To: Ellesu

thanks, bfl


17 posted on 02/23/2007 8:20:57 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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