• New York's rat problem is scaring away tourists.
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[quote]NEW YORK (Reuters) - Absolutely no one likes a rat, a city official said on Tuesday, demanding $1.5 million be restored to the budget to be help control what he called Manhattan's horrific rat problem. Seeing vermin running amok on city streets and in subway tunnels is a turn-off for tourists, said Manhattan Borough president Scott Stringer. "They don't want to come here and share their vacation with a New York City rat," Stringer told Reuters. Demanding rat control money be restored to the city Health Department budget, Stringer said the cuts forced the layoff of 57 Pest Control workers. The result has been a 1.5 percent rise in complaints over last year and damage to New York's appeal as a tourist destination, he said. It's also a public safety issue. "I find this to be unacceptable because rodents are very dangerous to children and the quality of life of the city," Stringer said. He said the cut "makes no sense" as the city's pest control program was collecting around $6 million in fines each year from building owners for pest-related health violations. "Why would you make cuts to a program that actually makes money for the city?" Stringer said. Unless the cuts are restored and the pest control force fortified, the rat control problem is only going to get worse, he said. City health spokeswoman Susan Craig said the layoffs have "had no impact on the agency's ability to respond to rat complaints." The city has adapted to the cuts by doing more comprehensive pest control sweeps of neighborhoods as opposed to responding to individual complaints, she said. "Our new approach has allowed us to become better at discovering rat problems, better at notifying landlords about infestations and better at getting properties near each other to treat rat problems simultaneously," she said.[/quote][URL]http://www.wtkr.com/news/offbeat/sns-rt-odd-us-newyork-ratstre73558i-20110406,0,117245.story[/URL]
Rats
Dale Gribble, at your service. [img]http://www.sondrakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Dale_Gribble.jpg[/img]
You can't kill everyone living in new york that's genocide.
Get the teenage mutant ninja turtles
Get cats. lots and lots of cats.
Call the Mafia to deal with the "rat" problem
No way, rats are fucking funny. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1doR9zUtQ8&feature=related[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnr-NRyhXVA[/media] RATS!
Better rats than the Ceph.
I always thought that whole 'rats and big as a cat/car tire/etc" were just gag things. Went to NYC. SO. FUCKING. WRONG.
[QUOTE=evilweazel;29020309]I always thought that whole 'rats and big as a cat/car tire/etc" were just gag things. Went to NYC. SO. FUCKING. WRONG.[/QUOTE] In the General Mills Factory their big as dogs, and take about 5 pellets to kill.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;29020337]In the General Mills Factory their big as dogs, and take about 5 pellets to kill.[/QUOTE] Fuck nature, I'm buying napalm and putting it on everything.
pussies, I've lived in New York for the first 7 years of my life, and I still visit today. I barely see rats, and all of them were underground
[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;29020377]and all of them were underground[/QUOTE] Yeah but only because being on the ground is too mainstream...
Ain't got shit on Baltimore's rats. Them rodents in Cherry Hill will steal your cheese, and your fucking car.
Those rats, they make like in the metro so hard. if this endless winter is not enough to kill us, and the radiation kills too sloly, rats will do it quicker.
I've lived in NYC my entire life and not once have I ever seen a rat on the metro or streets.
[QUOTE=Arachnidus;29027277]I've lived in NYC my entire life and not once have I ever seen a rat on the metro or streets.[/QUOTE] You must not take the metro very often... I've never seen them on the streets, but in the evening/night time rats come out down on the subway tracks regularly. I usually see a couple nice big rats running around a few times a month.
Visited NYC last May. I saw a couple rats, but mostly only in the metro. I don't think I ever saw one above ground. To me, it was pretty funny. Rats aren't very much of a problem where I live, so I've never seen a wild rat before.
Wasn't there a thread on FP which made rats look cute? And if I do recall correctly, I was quite convinced.
[QUOTE=Demache;29027529]Visited NYC last May. I saw a couple rats, but mostly only in the metro. I don't think I ever saw one above ground. To me, it was pretty funny. Rats aren't very much of a problem where I live, so I've never seen a wild rat before.[/QUOTE] Yeah I live in the same town as you obviously we know each other but yeah rats are not a problem here but there if that's in fast food places like I've seen than thats just nasty.
[QUOTE=Angua;29025077]Yeah but only because being on the ground is too mainstream...[/QUOTE] Yeah they're gonna start going above ground because that's ironic.
i will never understand people going to new york for tourism
Nobody calls it the metro... Anyways, I've only seen rats on the subway tracks, rarely ever above ground.
all of the asians probably just take pictures of them.
An invasion of dirty snitches in New York? Say it isn't so!
[QUOTE=MIPS;29028827]An invasion of dirty snitches in New York? Say it isn't so![/QUOTE] Time for "Stop Snitching 3" I suppose.
yeah the danger of having my foreskin nibbled off by rodents is kind of a deterrent when im tihnking of going on holiday
If you think that's bad, try coming to San Francisco sometime. We don't have as many rats, but we have a really bad bum infestation. There are human turds on the sidewalk everywhere downtown, and everything smells like urine. Sometimes when I am walking to work I see packs of pigeons eating vomit. [img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/153/353904470_9615300e96.jpg[/img]
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