Breitbart: New York City residents are complaining about huge rats scurrying around Central Park and neighborhoods, with some claiming rats have been seen nesting in trees and chewing through car engine wires in broad daylight.
“Rats are devious and they’re smart,” Gail Dubov, president of the West 83rd Street Block Association, said in an article in the UK Sun’s U.S. edition:
Melanie Sloan, whose daughter is Scarlett Johansson, said she saw one man on a bench in The Ramble area of Central Park swatting at rats with a rake.
“Central Park is overrun with huge fat rats. I saw a man on a bench in the rambles swatting them unsuccessfully with a rake,” Sloan posted on Facebook.
Locals told the New York Post that they think slacking street cleaning and trash pickup, as well as an increase of outdoor dining during the coronavirus pandemic, have led to the rodent problem.
The Post reported that so far this year, callers have filed 12,632 rat complaints to the city’s 311 hotline. Residents submitted 9,042 in all of 2019.
The Post also reported sightings of “rats as big as bunnies” and on efforts to combat the rodents: more here
I thought this was going to be a story about leftists….
Evidently they have ROUS’s (rodents of unusual size) in NYC. Where’s Wesley from the Princess Bride when you need him the most to kill all the ROUS’s?
Leave them alone. They may be needed for a food source before it’s all said and done.
It’s not a problem when living in New York city, its a feature!
Chuck Schumer is a LOT bigger than a bunny.
New Yorks alright……..if you like saxaphones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVZ3mKpWF68
It’s what New Yorkers voted for
Who am I to interfere?
I know of at least one big rat in Albany too.
Alice Pooper sings Welcome to my Shithole!
Was it the movie Demolition Man where they were in the sewers BBQing rats?
If DeBozo would buy about 50,000 live traps, NYC could keep the rat population under control, feed the Homeless population with “Campfire Rotisserie Rodent” & sell the hides for leather processing to offset the traps cost & help to keep the Homeless warm in the winter.
Open season, no limit, tastes like chicken.
What do they serve at the homeless shelters?
If the Dems get their way, we all may need to know this.
Rat & Mice Recipes For Hard Times?
https://rense.com/general27/ram.htm
TIP: when cooking rodents, pre-soaking up to 5 hours helps take away that pesky rodent flavor. AND the longer you cook it, with the other ingredients, the better the meat tastes.
^^^ I thot New York rats were already pre-soaked…
Should send a troop of Boy Scouts with pellet guns out to deal with them.
Of course it would probably be much easier to find street and drug gangs with 9mm’s than Boy Scout troops with pellet guns in NYC.
But then the gangbangers would shoot each other and we’re not quite ready for Soylent green yet.
Here’s a solution. This is my Sig 1911-22 with a Gemtech Outback II suppressor. Stupid, silly quiet. Like hollywood makes a silenced pistol sound. Except this one is really that quiet.
https://i.imgur.com/xMa1b70.jpg?1
Solution: offer a bounty and allow suppressed .22 bolt action rifles loaded with CB caps.
I enjoy the hell out of ratting and pesting videos on youtube.
Just another Commie run rathole.
I’m glad that the rats are getting some peaceful air and sunshine and don’t have to hide out in the sewers any more.
gin blossom; I used to work at the NYS Capitol in Albany, and the place is loaded with giant, nasty, political rats that wander the halls.
Why aren’t those rats wearing masks?
“If DeBozo would buy about 50,000 live traps,”
Naw. (Or, maybe Gnaw?) Too small. Meaning, too much time and labor for the leather. You’ll spend way more money and time trying that than just killing them.
Just put out the regular anti-coagulant rat bait and be done with it. They aren’t deadly to whatever wants to eat them afterwards. The blood thinner bait isn’t active once eaten by them. You could use them for feeding other animals at that point, if you want to.
Personally, I would enjoy the opportunity to sit out at night with a pellet rifle and a 12 pack and pop them like prairie dogs as they appeared.
Could be a community bonding thing for people to be out doing this together.
Uncle Al, A .22 cal pellet rifle can knock a squirrel out beyond 35 yards. No need for gun powder for rats.
I keep A Gamo .22 cal Silent Cat in the truck during the winter months. Squirrels are the main targets. They’re much tougher than rats. You can hit a quarter at 35-40 yards easily with the 4x scope that comes with them.
Very safe and very deadly.
I average $82.50 per trigger pull. Even if the police are called by a Karen seeing “A man with a gun” – nothing comes of it.
Junk the idea of a firearm in the city and get a $200 or less .22 cal pellet rifle and get the hollow point hunting pellets.
You won’t regret it, but you may regret using a firearm for the same result.
Due to the limited range (about 20′) of 22 snake shot it’s a much more effective and safer way to go that anything else. Ask me how I know.
It’s can be fun for the gangs too.
And than can clean up after themselves when you tag one because they will bring the dead ones home for dinner. All it takes is one small hole from the very small shot. They can’t bleed and live.
” … suppressed .22 bolt action rifles loaded with CB caps”
A suppressor is not needed with CB’s in a rifle.
But a pellet gun, rifle or pistol, is plenty sufficient for a rat so a firearm is not even needed to dispatch them.
My Petey B flew back from NYC last week after guest speaking at HomoCon and he said the rats there were as big as my unbleached elastic starfish!
I have and have used .22 snake shot on rats in a pantry before, It’s not that effective at even 1/2 inch range on a rat. But we’re talking outdoors use with some distance now, aren’t we? Even Snake shot uses gunpowder and will garner the attention and scrutiny of nearby Karens.
.22 cal Pellets in a scoped rifle are a much better choice for this exterior job.
Just a professional speaking that’s put these things into practice. Do what you will.
They can trap them & eat them when Cuomo Quarantines the state.