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Berlin's Poor Should Catch Rats, Says Politician
Spiegel ^ | 12/17/08 | Spiegel Online

Posted on 12/17/2008 2:02:21 PM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: Jeff Chandler

FUNNY. I’m telling mom you are picking an Wagner again.


21 posted on 12/17/2008 2:29:17 PM PST by Taffini (Mr. Pippin and Mr. Waffles do not approve)
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To: Beelzebubba

GMTA, CU@SHOT.


22 posted on 12/17/2008 2:31:12 PM PST by Travis McGee (--www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com--)
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To: Jeff Chandler

They could make them watch Al Gore talking about Climate Change until they willingly killed themselves.


23 posted on 12/17/2008 2:35:54 PM PST by CholeraJoe ("Hey you, hey you! This won't hurt a bit!")
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To: Beelzebubba

You could avoid “rat farms” by just offering the bounty suddenly for a two-week period.

It is a perfectly legitimate job. It’s what pest control people do all day. If people want some money, let them go for it. My sons would!


24 posted on 12/17/2008 2:46:12 PM PST by Marie2
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To: NormsRevenge
They should eat the feral hogs, Berlin has lots of them...but the greenies are protecting the critters.

http://www.texasboars.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12556

25 posted on 12/17/2008 2:49:07 PM PST by Deaf Smith
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To: WildcatClan

*The world has gone crazy, period. The pests that brought them The Plague are protected. I suppose the rats could be turned in alive so they could be terminated via lethal injection. *

Once at a workplace of mine, one of my coworkers convinced the environmental managers to replace regular snap mousetraps with glue traps. Soon enough, she saw a mouse in a glue trap and realized that instead of being more “humane”, starving to death or chewing off your limbs was actually WORSE than being killed instantly. Go figure.


26 posted on 12/17/2008 3:03:49 PM PST by j-damn
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To: NormsRevenge
The Javanese tried something like this...They offered a bounty on every rat tail presented to the appropriate government official. Immediately a 'fake rat tail' industry grew up on Java-quite literally a cottage industry. Some of the fake tails were almost impossible to distinguish from the real thing. So the government changed the bylaws, and insisted the entire dead rat be presented for payment.

At which point the Javanese began capturing and breeding rats.

If the Javanese ever decide to take over the world, we're doomed.

27 posted on 12/17/2008 3:57:51 PM PST by kaylar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I thought I read somewhere that Europe was a socialist Utopia with no poverty or want?!”

Thats what libs in the US keep telling us.


28 posted on 12/17/2008 4:35:10 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: NormsRevenge
Well, it's not as bad as I feared upon reading the title.

I thought that perhaps the politician was suggesting that they could EAT the rats -- like in the Siege of Paris . . . I think it was Daumier who drew a cartoon of a queue of well dressed Parisians lined up at a sewer grating for their chance to catch a rat . . . .

29 posted on 12/17/2008 5:42:21 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse (TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary -- Recess Appointment))
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