CNS:
After President Donald Trump called Batimore, Maryland “rat-infested,” the city announced a 38% decline in the number of “rat abatement” calls to its 311 phone number.
In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Baltimore’s Department of Public Works (DPW) boasted that its “proactive inspections” have not only driven down rat-related 311 calls, but have also decreased the number of “identified rat burrows” by 1,554.
Finally, Baltimore DPW provides two rat-control tips: use green trash cans and report neighbors who don’t dispose of trash properly. more here
Best way to control rats: don’t vote for rats.
Well that explains all the little call boxes with the Blue LEDS on them…
What is a rat burrow?
Is that like a prairy dog mound?
http://armedwithvisions.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/prairie-dogs33.jpg
Baltimore gets its own rat subspecies:
https://baltimorefishbowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/copsbeatrat.jpg
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I’m still pissed they stole the telco’s 811 ANAC. They stole all the X11 numbers for municipal shit.
The old MCI number they replaced it with did work better, though. Funny. Verizon using the MCI ANAC to this day.
There is a simple economic principle that any schtruggling township, city, etc., needs to learn.
You take away the cheese, the rats will leave.
It’s that simple. Yet I see time after time, they keep putting cheese out, then wonder why they live in a shithole.
311? they have a phone # for rat control? LMHairyAO
Why isn’t it 8 2 1?
Or 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
There’s lies, damn lies…and statistics.
They can flush out lots of rats with a Federal audit
of where the SIXTEEN THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS in 2018
Fed grant money to Cummings’ district went exactly.
once upon a time … there was a popular sport in B’more (back in the ’90’s) called, no kidding, Rat Fishing … bunch of men of non-color would put some lawn chairs in the back of a pickup truck, drive to the nearest B’more alley, back the truck in, sit & cast their batch & wait for a nibble … seems local PETA freaks got ahold of the story & w/ the help of the local gubmint, (bad publicity, ya know) shut it down
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/01/us/ratmen-of-baltimore-go-rat-fishing-again.html
Number of rats increased dramatically. Number of calls for help decreased dramatically. MSM zeroes in on fewer calls, claims success. What really happened: Victims gave up calling for help. They already know no one will answer the phone or do anything about the problem. That’s what happens when citizens are paid for doing nothing.
No pride of home ownership and no manly men (like our dads) there to care about the health and welfare of their children enough to take matters into their own hands. I know our dads would have called a meeting, figured out what to do about the problem and then set about taking care of the situation. What’s this business of calling the city?
@Molon — In the documentary Rat Movie, they do show some guys rat fishing. Of course the underpinnings of the whole rat problem is whites’ racism. Naturally.
Cue the Twilight Zone music…
We now have ‘URB’s’- unidentifed rat burrows.
Are their statistics centered around ‘public housing,’ and not necessarily the city at large? Reading of the article allows that, but they don’t specifically say it, nor do they say their stats apply to the entire city. I think that is so.
They should have a Terrier convention, with a prize for the doggo that gets the most rats.
my 22 lb australian terrier toby rips after voles and field mice and stares down cats his size but i think he’d shit his shorts if he encountered a rat.
I’ve had Airedales that have left what looks like a mortar crater after they’ve dug in after a woodchuck or whatever it was.
p.s.- nice choice of name for doggo, Charlie
His other name is an anacronym. Sometimes when people ask his name i tell them Peter. Short for pain in the rear.
i coulda called him Miles.
I shoot rats with my 1917. Then the dogs eat half the thing. Then the chickens eat the rest.
I don’t have to burn anything.
Best way to control rats? Stop electing them to Congress.
Not that I even know what a 1917 is. I hate guns. I piss my trousers every time I even think about guns.
“Call in-fo-mation.”
“Whut duh num-buh?”
“Fo won won.”
“Wut duh fuck? Whut duh num-buh?”
“Fo. Won. Won. Dat fo in-fo-mations.”
“I be knowin dat. WHAT DUH NUM-BAH?”
“Fo. Won. Won.”
“I gots rats.”
“Call tree won won!”
“Whut duh fuck dat?”
Baltimore: where rats aren’t a problem, they’re a feature.
Talk about your gorge rising. “This chicken just ate half a rat that I shot 2 days ago. All full of maggots and stink. Fuck’s sake.”
“You want some eggs?”
“Naw, dawg. I don’t eat eggs no more.”
DemocRATS.
It all makes perfect sense.
Uncle Tom Cummings and his crook wife, serving the democrat plantation, damning his constituents to perpetual ghetto life.