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[BobTheFork]

Somewhere, out there. Beneath a New York slice. Someone's thinking of me, and loving cheese tonight.

Damnit! If only we had cats in America!

 

[Lord Virgin]

Release the snakes.

 

[entremet]

Rats are incredibly smart and resilient.

Also being urban helps them. No other animal predators--no raccoons, wolves, coyotes, bobcats, etc.

 

[FriedConsole]

My calls are probably from suburban white women moving there because of Sex in the City. NYC isn't like it is in the rom coms. That is actually Toronto.

 

[Chuckiemagne]

Humans are to blame, not the rats.

 

[Jarrod38]

 

[Grover Cleveland]

Shit's jokes until one of these Master Splinter looking motherfuckers run up on you.

All it takes is one dog sized rat to fuck up your day

 

[adamsappel]

When I was a kid on my first trip to NYC, I asked my dad's friend why so many New Yorkers drank their cans of soda with straws. "Because they've seen the rats crawling all over the cases in the stores."

A cool rat movie is Of Unknown Origin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCNtAfQmFY

 

[criesofthepast]

Most of NYC smells like wet garbage so this isn't really a surprise.

Clean up the streets and the rats will go somewhere else.

 

[Byakuya769]

The result of banning ferrets.

 

[ugh_the_boot]

Oh yeah, by merely dragging a piece of pizza that nobody wanted down a stairwell and having some tool film it with his phone, he has doomed his species to a city wide genocide that will cost billions of rat lives.

Remy is that you?

 

[CrocMother]

I wonder if it's related to climate change. Warmer temperatures.

Climate change doesn't mean that every place gets warmer

 

[PartlyCloudlike]

That's good eatin if you ask me

 

[fallengorn]

Time to release more possums.

 

[Captin Quacker]

Worked for bikini bottom

 

[AlphaSnake]

One of the multitude of reasons why I left NYC for an entirely different state. It's just beyond filthy. When you run rats over with your car, you know shit is fucked.

 

[brinstar]

I lived in NYC for a while and it never hit me how filthy it was til I visited Toronto. It was like night and day

 

[No_Style]

Here's a better one.

Incredible. New York be afraid. They're working their way up the food chain.

 

[Zombine]

Pretty sure there is a much more severe Bed Bug problem.

 

[Lulubop]

Tompkin Square park is fucking crazy at night

 

[beasty]

When I was a child, my family lived in a Brooklyn apartment that was infested with mice. They would crawl onto your bed as you slept to "snuggle". Underneath my bed would sound like a party. Those experiences made me a little weird. I currently live in a home that doesn't have any mice but I always lay down fresh traps and check for holes just to feel comfortable.

 

[Revolutionary]

Pretty sure there is a much more severe Bed Bug problem.

Was going to say exactly the same thing. I know several people that were hit by them this year

 

[Breakage]

When I was a child, my family lived in a Brooklyn apartment that was infested with mice. They would crawl onto your bed as you slept to "snuggle". Underneath my bed would sound like a party. Those experiences made me a little weird. I currently live in a home that doesn't have any mice but I always lay down fresh traps and check for holes just to feel comfortable.

Damn, that's fucked up.

 

[quackamole]

Can't we repurpose some of these military drones, put paintball turrets on them and let em lose in the sewer system to wipe out the rats?

 

[eyeball_kid]

Hell no. Why was I thinking of moving to NYC again?

Having visited my sister in New York I have a potential idea, like, oh, I don't know USING TRASH CONTAINERS instead of HAVING GIANT PILES OF UNCONTAINED TRASH BAGS EVERYWHERE?

My thoughts exactly. Not only are the piles of trash unsanitary, but it is just damn unsightly. Someone mentioned unions... what the heck do unions have to do with this? Also, does no trash receptacles mean no recycling? Or do they have one of those let-other-people-sort-it-out policies?

 

[Stinkles]

My favorite thing about New Yorkers is they can defend how dirty the place is under the guise of keeping it real. Well, that and the exaggeration of how good the average pizza is.

 

[Retsudo]

You know what is up! But this won't change because of union work rules.

As someone not from the US, whats the deal with the union work rules? Can someone explain how public health issues are hindered by them?

 

[Stinkles]

When I was a child, my family lived in a Brooklyn apartment that was infested with mice. They would crawl onto your bed as you slept to "snuggle". Underneath my bed would sound like a party. Those experiences made me a little weird. I currently live in a home that doesn't have any mice but I always lay down fresh traps and check for holes just to feel comfortable.

Wee sleekit cowrin' timrous beasty oh whit a panic's in thy breasty.

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_a_Mouse

 

[dreamer3kx]

Yea its getting crazy out here with rats man, been here my whole life and Ive never seen it like this, walking around like squirrels now, its really bad.

 

[EASTC0AST_GH05T]

Atleast its not tarantula spiders!

 

[Stinkles]

As someone not from the US, whats the deal with the union work rules? Can someone explain how public health issues are hindered by them?

Not health. Bins can be picked up by trucks with claws. Bags need extra people. Protectionist. I'd almost support that were it not for, you know, bubonic plague...

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Something is driving them from their homes.

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

bubonic plague...

Pretty much what I was thinking when reading the article. The apocalypse starts in NYC.

 

[eyeball_kid]

Not health. Bins can be picked up by trucks with claws. Bags need extra people. Protectionist.

That is one of the more absurd things I've read. And what happens when the bag rips? Trash all over the place? No wonder there's such a rat problem. I'm all for unions, but not for protectionism at the expense of the public good/health.

p.s. someone mentioned no hawks because they can't deal with pollution – there's plenty of hawks in the much-more polluted Los Angeles.

 

[Aylinato]

They should start putting out glue traps around the city and the city should give everyone a stick. The rat problem will be solved.

Rats eat their dead

 

[Mobius 1]

The subterranean people of San Angeles had the right idea.

My favorite scene, came expecting to see this. Thank you.

 

[Retsudo]

Not health. Bins can be picked up by trucks with claws. Bags need extra people. Protectionist. I'd almost support that were it not for, you know, bubonic plague...

Ah ok, thanks for the info! Still, someone better throw money at the problem, otherwise you are all gonna be eaten by mutant rats in the near future.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

Bears will freeze to death in winter.

uh...no?

Rats are incredibly smart and resilient.

Also being urban helps them. No other animal predators--no raccoons, wolves, coyotes, bobcats, etc.

there are Raccoons in the city but I guess not enough. There are hawks too but NIMBY's and idiots threaten them.

That is one of the more absurd things I've read. And what happens when the bag rips? Trash all over the place? No wonder there's such a rat problem. I'm all for unions, but not for protectionism at the expense of the public good/health.

p.s. someone mentioned no hawks because they can't deal with pollution – there's plenty of hawks in the much-more polluted Los Angeles.

picture this : the bag rips and rotten, smelly food, sludge? (best guess) mixed with sewage and god knows what else mix with grease and rain and snow and dirt and pollution to form this gel or liquid that gets smeared (and looks like orange coleslaw) all over the sidewalk day after day after day until it becomes part of the sidewalk and you just get used to it after a while and the rent keeps going up and rich assholes take your job and you're expected to take it.

 

[Blizzard]

Whacking Day?

*edit* I'm removing the link because it's actually pretty violent.

Weird Al had a song called Weasel Stomping Day that this reminded me of.

 

[Lulubop]

Yea its getting crazy out here with rats man, been here my whole life and Ive never seen it like this, walking around like squirrels now, its really bad.

Yea, same.

My block was pretty bad earlier in the year, but I think the ferals around help weed em away.

 

[weemadarthur]

Last time NYC hired me, they didn't pay the bill. Now I'll take that with interest, tyvm. I'll be on my harrier.

 

[Slayer-33]

Unleash the cats

 

[EASTC0AST_GH05T]

I thought rats was looked down upon in NY, now the rats are ratting on the rats.

 

[Stinkles]

That is one of the more absurd things I've read. And what happens when the bag rips? Trash all over the place? No wonder there's such a rat problem. I'm all for unions, but not for protectionism at the expense of the public good/health.

p.s. someone mentioned no hawks because they can't deal with pollution – there's plenty of hawks in the much-more polluted Los Angeles.

Don't forget the unions can call a garbage strike, cripple the city and almost instantly destroy a mayor. Rock and a hard place.

 

[Zabka]

That is one of the more absurd things I've read. And what happens when the bag rips? Trash all over the place? No wonder there's such a rat problem. I'm all for unions, but not for protectionism at the expense of the public good/health.

p.s. someone mentioned no hawks because they can't deal with pollution – there's plenty of hawks in the much-more polluted Los Angeles.

http://urbanhawks.blogs.com/

We got some hawks. Some real ass hawks. Spoilered due to Pale Male wrecking a rat.

Spoiler

 

[0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55]

Damn, that Hawk is getting it's eat on like a boss.
I want some pizza.

 

[Premium Quality]

Another reason why the West Coast is the Best Coast.

 

[CadetMahoney]

welease the secwet wepon!

 

[Splash Wave]

My girlfriend and I lived in New York for a year, and the rats were a big part of what made us want to live. That shit is out of control. I remember being at a certain station in the Flatiron and seeing 20+ running around on the platform while waiting for a train. Fuck that.

 

[AlphaSnake]

My favorite thing about New Yorkers is they can defend how dirty the place is under the guise of keeping it real. Well, that and the exaggeration of how good the average pizza is.

It's pretty fucking sad. I have friends and family that do this. And I'm just like "stop...you live in a shit hole."