New York City Rats Won’t Stop Jumping Into Baby Strollers
Source - Parents are complaining that rats searching for bits of food are jumping into their children’s strollers in Upper West Side parks, and state Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal wants New York City to do something about it.
“The rat problem here is severe,” said Ms. Rosenthal, a Democrat whose district includes the neighborhood. The city, she said in an interview, should invest part of its $32 million Neighborhood Rat Reduction plan in her district to help battle the rodents plaguing her constituents.
JoAnn Kranis, a resident for more than 40 years, recalled that there were no rats when she would take her older grandchildren to neighborhood parks about three years ago.“
Tuesday at the Diana Ross Playground in Central Park. As she spoke, several rats roamed around the edges of the playground. Disgusted parents pulled their children away from the rodents who scurried into the bushes.
The mayor’s office said the city runs two Upper West Side rat-reservoir programs, which target rat colonies and conditions that attract vermin at a citywide cost of $2.9 million a year.
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Come on, moms! Rats are trying to steal your babies and all you’re doing is complaining to the city board? Take up arms. Kill these little pricks. If you’re not a killer, just hurt them, break their legs so they tell their friends it’s not worth it. Make an example out of one and the rest will fall in line. That’s what the Mafia does. It’s either that or risk a meltdown because your kiddo doesn’t have any Cheerios to munch on.
Listen, I’m not an advocate of street justice but our options are running out. Rats are peacocking around in broad daylight. The city should take some of the thirty-two million dollars allocated for rat extermination and arm the people with brooms and rolling pins (which, according to cartoons, are the best way to fight vermin.) The problem would take care of itself. Besides, there can’t be that many of them jumping in strollers. I’m sure its just a few bad eggs that are making the rest of the population look bad. Sad.
