By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com
Portland is officially turning into New York as the Rose City is seeing an infestation of rats with calls jumping 300 percent in two weeks.
The closure of downtown restaurants and proliferation of homeless encampments filled with litter has attracted the creatures. With massive homeless encampments has created a publc trash problem. more
At first glance I thought that headline was about voter registration.
Yeah, democRATS!
PETA will probably demand protection for the rats.
Not enough Chinese restaurants to cook them and sell in General Tso’s Chicken? Sad.
If they found that rats were consuming the marijuana crop, THEN you would see an all-out effort to eradicate them. Rats invading homes and businesses? Meh, can’t be bothered.
I’ve seen this movie.
Don’t end well.
Hey that was me!
“with calls jumping 300 percent in two weeks.”
Karens crying about rats and so utterly helpless that they can’t trap or shoot the rats themselves, doesn’t tell me anything about trends in the rat population. It doesn’t tell me anything about Portland that I didn’t already suspect either.
DNC: “Register them to vote!”
Jethro – What makes you think they haven’t been voting all along?
Seeing 3 when you saw 1 before is a 300% increase.
I dislike “stats/percentages” for this reason. Gimme the numbers. Otherwise you’re just sensationalizing it.
So they are jumping ship?
Death to vermin.
@Dadof4 — Innumeracy irks me, too.
BTW, if you see three rats now when before there was only one, then the rat population is currently 300% of what it used to be, and that represents a 200% increase.
Factor in the increased size and weight and it’s even worse!!
Those are just my pets, Willard.
BLM and anti Facebook count in that number… of rats… yes?
@ Uncle Al ʘ FU46i & Dadof4
I agree with what you guys are saying but the article says nothing about the rat population increasing 300%, only that the number of people reporting rats has increased 300%. Then it goes on to mention how fast the rat population can increase but not that it is increasing. Instead, it says this: “The Oregon Health Authority has reported no increase in rat bites or diseases spread by rats, according to KATU-TV.” which would seem to imply that the rat population is not increasing.
There’s always the possibility the article isn’t even about four-legged rats.
It’s probably just the cold weather. Rats are smart. They want IN where it’s warm. (Plus their housing costs have become ridiculous All the homeless rats are squatting.)
Rat singing….
Portland some rats would turn you away. I don’t listen to a word they say.
Is this bad?
“BTW, if you see three rats now when before there was only one, then the rat population is currently 300% of what it used to be, and that represents a 200% increase.”
True.
Left out able.
Amazing what they are capable of.
I didn’t realize the beaurocracy was browing that quickly.
The bums dig the trash out of the sidewalk and owner trash cans looking for aluminum cans and food then just dump it on the street or sidewalk and walk away, there’s piles of it.
The city needs better trash cans where they can’t get stuff out of it, like their arm.
They be drugged out and don’t care.
Willard and Ben approve!
Soooo next up, The Fauch fearmongering about the bubonic plague?
“Are you from Oregon?”
Rats belong with each other…
That many more Antifa bastards have shown up in town, eh? ;^)
So stop playing that damn flute!
So ANTIFA is procreating?