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Workers at an Upper Manhattan Chipotle restaurant say they’ve been fighting a losing battle against hordes of hungry rats — and a management team that let the infestation get so bad that four staffers have been bitten by the massive rodents.
The besieged fast-casual Mexican joint on Broadway near West 169th Street in Washington Heights closed to customers indefinitely late last month, but only after rats chewed through the wiring of a computer system that handled orders, two employees told The Post.
In the meantime, those workers are still going into the store to clean, in an effort to keep the vermin at bay.
They say they’ve killed dozens of the rodents by stomping on them, smacking them with broom handles, dropping boxes on them and various other medieval methods of extermination. More
Chipotle is where I go for diarrhea when Taco Bell is closed.
I’ve always considered rats to be filthy little bastards, but if they have an appetite for avocados, then my already low opinion of them just tanked even more.
Poisoned cheese could be put out at night, or hire somebody with a .22 rifle and leave regular cheese out, Pay him minimum wage plus a $10 dollar bounty per rat. Get necessary permission from the PD before opening fire. If the PD says no, find somebody who hunts with a bow and arrows.As an alternative, check with the local cat fanciers club for some big cats, The problem here is that some may get bitten by rats.
You don’t even need a .22. I’ve got a 1,000 fps pellet rifle that makes short work of rats and squirrels. I like the Texas Heart Shot myself. As they run away from you they give you a nice aiming point.
Next week’s special!
MYSTERY meat tacos!!! 🤢
@Extirpates – this is NYC. deBlasio’s NYC. Kill one and ten take its place.
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Hey, those rats are just trying to make a living, which is more than we can say for the Democrats in the rat’s neighborhood.
As a kid, we used to take a oil lamp and a pie plate with cracked corn and sit in the barn, in the dark. And shoot rats with a .22 pellet rifle. Put the plate down next to the lamp and wait in the shadows. They just keep coming out and walking by their dead pals to munch on the corn. The noise spooks them, (is spooks politically correct now days?) but after a minute or two they’re back (low brain mass, but more than many voters). Never tried it with avocados.
If ya can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
Just use the rats as mascots like Chuck E Cheese and the old Quizno’s rats in a Ratvertising campaign!
… like I need a nuther reason to avoid over-priced clique food!
As if we needed another reason to not eat at Chipotle.
BTW: you can’t shoot the rats, because Shitpotle is a “gun-Free zone, remember?
I’m trying to feel bad for them.
Surprised the Ecoli didn’t kill the Rats…
There are THAT many displaced Californians in NYC?
Many hours at the old city dump. The trick was to set up at about 50 yards, across the hood of the truck. CCI CB’s worked great, less noise than the pellet rifle.
Soak the corn in antifreeze works well too.
The first book by a former Aussie artillery officer (and since it was short IMHO THE BEST) was about how to cook and sell rats!
I think I read all of Jim’s books 30 to 40 year’s ago. Good books, but most were long. Why I put Animal Farm ahead of 1984.
Former “Bean Counters” are infamously slow readers!
NYC is a hellhole.
“Pay him minimum wage plus a $10 dollar bounty per rat.”
Ya need a pest license if you’re going to pay them. Probably also have a union to deal with in NY.
Liability. Ya gotta have insurance on every trigger pull. No license, no insurance. I agree with Uncle Al on using a pellet rifle. Lots of fun and no gunpowder involved. Can still do some collateral damage, though. I use a .22 cal hollow point pellet at 800 fps. Much more damaging than the .177, but either will do for rats. I take out raccoons, skunks, and possums with the .22 pellet, if I need to.
My gun toting arrow shooting friends. As a ute I worked in a 3 story house converted to a buffet restaurant. Being a po injun kid I was pretty damn good with a bow.
My cheap ass manager decided to bounty rat kills so I grabbed another injun boy and we crept into the facility at 0 dark thirty using our best hunting stealth.
The main gathering spot was the back of the house dish washing area where often a bus tub was simply thrown over as a lid for another bus tub full of dirty dishes. Rat paradise.
Look as we snapped on the lights and discharged our arrows the dozens of giant beasts simply leapt 5 feet straight up and easily avoided death by bow.
Even then I was a strategic little thinker, I had lined rat traps against the walls before our frontal assault. Those were the only kills recorded for the evening but they were many.
So 2 rules, you will never be able to shoot a rat in motion with anything short of a claymore and never eat a buffet restaurants…
Sounds like it was a fun night, Cisco.