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Woman with 300+ rats being evicted
upi ^ | Feb. 7, 2013

Posted on 02/08/2013 9:55:43 AM PST by JoeProBono

PLOVER, Wis., - Authorities in Wisconsin said a woman found to be living with more than 300 rats running loose in her trailer home is being evicted.

The Portage County Sheriff's Department said Darlene Flatoff will be evicted from her Birch Tree Estates home in Plover within the next 10 days after health officials discovered the woman has been keeping more than 300 rats loose in her home since March of last year and possibly longer, the Wausau Daily Herald reported Thursday.

Officials said the rodents and their droppings are posing a health risk. They said Flatoff bought her first rats from pet stores and they eventually reproduced with wild rats.

"The health department is looking for me to meet with them in person along with the exterminator," Birch Tree Estates owner Luke Hilgers said. "Just to make sure that the exterminator's plan to address the issue will satisfy their expectations."

Officials said the eviction was planned after Flatoff failed to abide by an order to rid her home of rats by Jan. 17.


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: rats


1 posted on 02/08/2013 9:55:55 AM PST by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

Snicker...

2 posted on 02/08/2013 9:58:43 AM PST by GraceG
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To: JoeProBono

“How many Democrats fit into a trailer home?” has now been answered.


3 posted on 02/08/2013 9:58:43 AM PST by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: Moltke

That’s right. I hear she was the local Democrat ward captain. She could always reliably produce 301 votes for the Dem candidate, although some of the voter names — Mickey, Minnie — were a little suspect.


4 posted on 02/08/2013 10:05:08 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: JoeProBono

She’s not trying - that guy on Animal Hoarders had well over a thousand rats in his home and he cried upon finding a dead one.


5 posted on 02/08/2013 10:05:42 AM PST by dainbramaged (Joe McCarthy was right.)
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To: JoeProBono

Just sick. A clear case of hoarding. Who needs more than 200?


6 posted on 02/08/2013 10:10:14 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: JoeProBono

I think she should appeal. They failed to specify how many rats running loose and defecating was the permissible level.


7 posted on 02/08/2013 10:10:14 AM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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To: JoeProBono
300? Three hundred rats? That's nothing.

Google "Palisades rat house." A hundred times more rats.

Twin sisters, elderly. Wheeling home 50lb bags of dried dog food a couple times a week in a shopping cart. Went on for years. Local officials couldn't be bothered to do more than "monitor the situation."

8 posted on 02/08/2013 10:16:10 AM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Steely Tom


9 posted on 02/08/2013 10:18:56 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: JoeProBono
So she has to leave, but the rats get to stay? Will the rats continue to pay the mortgage and the property taxes? If not, kick them out, too!! No pay, no stay!!

=:-)

10 posted on 02/08/2013 10:25:44 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: jeffc


11 posted on 02/08/2013 10:34:10 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: JoeProBono

When I make a mistake, I say, “Rats!”. I wonder what rats say? “Liberals!”?


12 posted on 02/08/2013 10:52:29 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: JoeProBono

“Ben, you’re always running here and there.
You feel you’re not wanted anywhere.
Except here in Birch Tree Estates.”

The missing verse.


13 posted on 02/08/2013 10:59:24 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: JoeProBono

does she live in congress?


14 posted on 02/08/2013 11:33:23 AM PST by bravo whiskey (“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”)
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To: Steely Tom

They probably had to provide the dog food to protect themselves, like Pi and the tiger. Or else move to another state.


15 posted on 02/08/2013 11:39:13 AM PST by firebrand
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To: JoeProBono

They’re killing the rats? They’re probably all potential mass murderers! [Little irony, sarcasm and dark humor for animal worshipers, who talk about torturing human beings.]


16 posted on 02/08/2013 12:16:54 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: JoeProBono
This lady just needs one good cat ...


17 posted on 02/08/2013 1:35:50 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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