RATS!!!!!
i have lived in prospect heights, on prospect b/w flatbush and carlton, and have never once seen a rat on our block. suddenly, in the last five days i have seen five-- one dead. they are bold; they are everywhere. i have issued a complaint to the health dept's. pest control dept. via 311. i recommend that others do the same and/or warn neighbors who are not keeping lids on trash that they will receive tickets if the city catches them. neighborhood restaurants also need to take careful steps not to throw garbage out or leave it in their back yards.
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what is the nyc rat-to-person ratio, again? eek!
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Subject: Re: RATS!!!!!
prohogrl wrote: i have lived in prospect heights, on prospect b/w flatbush and carlton, and have never once seen a rat on our block. suddenly, in the last five days i have seen five-- one dead. they are bold; they are everywhere. i have issued a complaint to the health dept's. pest control dept. via 311. i recommend that others do the same and/or warn neighbors who are not keeping lids on trash that they will receive tickets if the city catches them. neighborhood restaurants also need to take careful steps not to throw garbage out or leave it in their back yards.
did you ever read the plague by albert camus? its a great story if you haven't...just be aware that if you see the rats dance before dropping dead, its time to get out of dodge. -
Click the entry title for a swell reading selection:
http://highlyrecommended.blogspot.com/2005/08/rats.html
Among other things, the book explains that the rat-to-person ratio is bs, although there's no shortage of rats in the city. Also, it doesn't take a genius to connect the appearance of rats with oblivious people who throw food out of their windows... -
I enjoyed that book, too, if a very detailed book about rats could be said to be "enjoyed."
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I was actually dissapointed by the Rats book. too much on NY, too little on rats (I read it before I had even considered moving here). I was hoping for something a little more like Watson's book on Ants.
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Subject: Re: RATS!!!!!
prohogrl wrote: i have lived in prospect heights, on prospect b/w flatbush and carlton, and have never once seen a rat on our block. suddenly, in the last five days i have seen five-- one dead. they are bold; they are everywhere. i have issued a complaint to the health dept's. pest control dept. via 311. i recommend that others do the same and/or warn neighbors who are not keeping lids on trash that they will receive tickets if the city catches them. neighborhood restaurants also need to take careful steps not to throw garbage out or leave it in their back yards.
I live on the same block and saw a rat a week or two ago. The garbage cans outside my building don't even have lids and it ran from underneath my car in that direction. -
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lirio wrote: [quote=prohogrl]i have lived in prospect heights, on prospect b/w flatbush and carlton, and have never once seen a rat on our block. suddenly, in the last five days i have seen five-- one dead. they are bold; they are everywhere. i have issued a complaint to the health dept's. pest control dept. via 311. i recommend that others do the same and/or warn neighbors who are not keeping lids on trash that they will receive tickets if the city catches them. neighborhood restaurants also need to take careful steps not to throw garbage out or leave it in their back yards.
I live on the same block and saw a rat a week or two ago. The garbage cans outside my building don't even have lids and it ran from underneath my car in that direction.
Isn't it the law that cans need to have lids here? Am I wrong on that? -
Is there any excavation going on nearby? We had a rat problem on my block when a developer decided to dig out the backyard of a building a couple of doors down. They live in the ground and excavation can stir them up. If so, talk to the developer in addition to calling 311 and get an exterminator out to set traps. The developer should pay for it of course.
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daveb wrote: [quote=lirio][quote=prohogrl]i have lived in prospect heights, on prospect b/w flatbush and carlton, and have never once seen a rat on our block. suddenly, in the last five days i have seen five-- one dead. they are bold; they are everywhere. i have issued a complaint to the health dept's. pest control dept. via 311. i recommend that others do the same and/or warn neighbors who are not keeping lids on trash that they will receive tickets if the city catches them. neighborhood restaurants also need to take careful steps not to throw garbage out or leave it in their back yards.
I live on the same block and saw a rat a week or two ago. The garbage cans outside my building don't even have lids and it ran from underneath my car in that direction.
Isn't it the law that cans need to have lids here? Am I wrong on that?One would think. In this thread someone said that the garbage men don't like lids because they stink up the cans. Not sure if that's the reason behind our lidless cans. -
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lirio wrote: [quote=prohogrl]i have lived in prospect heights, on prospect b/w flatbush and carlton, and have never once seen a rat on our block. suddenly, in the last five days i have seen five-- one dead. they are bold; they are everywhere. i have issued a complaint to the health dept's. pest control dept. via 311. i recommend that others do the same and/or warn neighbors who are not keeping lids on trash that they will receive tickets if the city catches them. neighborhood restaurants also need to take careful steps not to throw garbage out or leave it in their back yards.
I live on the same block and saw a rat a week or two ago. The garbage cans outside my building don't even have lids and it ran from underneath my car in that direction.
I saw a rat on Underhill run under my tenants car. The next day his car was not running properly and he took it to the mechanic. They lifted up the hood and lo and behold that rat ate through one of the hoses. -
I just lost my cable service for 4 days because SOMETHING had eaten through the cable in the back yard. We figured rats or squirrels. :x
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What people need to develop is a taste for rats. Amazingly, their body tissue isn't as toxic as you think, since their digestive tract will only absorb the nutrients obtained from what they have eaten; everything else is eliminated. Rat meat is high in protein and low in fat, their skeletal structure can be cooked until brittle and eaten as a source of calcium, and their hides can be washed, tanned, and sewn together for garments. Rat livers are extremely high in iron.
Rats can also be rendered into valuable oils, raw proteins and minerals. It only takes 550 medium-sized rats to fill the tank of a compact car, such as the Toyota Corolla, and the byproduct of those 550 rats can be used to fertilize .3 hectacres of farmland.
So, don't reel back in fear from one of our furry friends - they may be powering your car tomorrow. -
yum.
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Last year one of the local papers did a piece on a guy in harlem called "Batman" or something liek that, anyway he was so fed up with the city not doing anything about the rats he would go out there and smash the rats with his bat and he would get like 20 in day or something rediculous like that.
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Anonymous wrote: What people need to develop is a taste for rats. Amazingly, their body tissue isn't as toxic as you think, since their digestive tract will only absorb the nutrients obtained from what they have eaten; everything else is eliminated. Rat meat is high in protein and low in fat, their skeletal structure can be cooked until brittle and eaten as a source of calcium, and their hides can be washed, tanned, and sewn together for garments. Rat livers are extremely high in iron.
Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy... -
JamesonVandy wrote: [quote=Anonymous]What people need to develop is a taste for rats. Amazingly, their body tissue isn't as toxic as you think, since their digestive tract will only absorb the nutrients obtained from what they have eaten; everything else is eliminated. Rat meat is high in protein and low in fat, their skeletal structure can be cooked until brittle and eaten as a source of calcium, and their hides can be washed, tanned, and sewn together for garments. Rat livers are extremely high in iron.
Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy...
You would if you were stuck in a prison camp in Turkey. Don't knock rat meat - it may save your life
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Anonymous wrote: What people need to develop is a taste for rats. Amazingly, their body tissue isn't as toxic as you think, since their digestive tract will only absorb the nutrients obtained from what they have eaten; everything else is eliminated. Rat meat is high in protein and low in fat, their skeletal structure can be cooked until brittle and eaten as a source of calcium, and their hides can be washed, tanned, and sewn together for garments. Rat livers are extremely high in iron.
Daveb makes hemp and rat-skin Jesus pants.
Rats can also be rendered into valuable oils, raw proteins and minerals. It only takes 550 medium-sized rats to fill the tank of a compact car, such as the Toyota Corolla, and the byproduct of those 550 rats can be used to fertilize .3 hectacres of farmland.
So, don't reel back in fear from one of our furry friends - they may be powering your car tomorrow. -
pensodyssey wrote: [quote=Anonymous]What people need to develop is a taste for rats. Amazingly, their body tissue isn't as toxic as you think, since their digestive tract will only absorb the nutrients obtained from what they have eaten; everything else is eliminated. Rat meat is high in protein and low in fat, their skeletal structure can be cooked until brittle and eaten as a source of calcium, and their hides can be washed, tanned, and sewn together for garments. Rat livers are extremely high in iron.
Rats can also be rendered into valuable oils, raw proteins and minerals. It only takes 550 medium-sized rats to fill the tank of a compact car, such as the Toyota Corolla, and the byproduct of those 550 rats can be used to fertilize .3 hectacres of farmland.
So, don't reel back in fear from one of our furry friends - they may be powering your car tomorrow.
Daveb makes hemp and rat-skin Jesus pants.
You're damn right I do!!! -
I found a fabulous recipe for grilled butterflied rat with tomato-chutney on Martha Stewart's website. She also has a gourgeous rat & pitbull hide friendship quilt pattern that I'm dying to try out.
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Didn't they used to make condoms out of ratskin?
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you people is so wierd! -
Subject: Re: RATS!!!!!
prohogrl wrote: i have lived in prospect heights, on prospect b/w flatbush and carlton, and have never once seen a rat on our block. suddenly, in the last five days i have seen five-- one dead. they are bold; they are everywhere. i have issued a complaint to the health dept's. pest control dept. via 311. i recommend that others do the same and/or warn neighbors who are not keeping lids on trash that they will receive tickets if the city catches them. neighborhood restaurants also need to take careful steps not to throw garbage out or leave it in their back yards.
I just walked from Flatbush to Vanderbilt on St. Marks Place and saw three rats (all three on the South side of SMP right by the back of the eBay store)!! Gross. -
Subject: Re: RATS!!!!!
prohogrl wrote: i have lived in prospect heights, on prospect b/w flatbush and carlton, and have never once seen a rat on our block. suddenly, in the last five days i have seen five-- one dead. they are bold; they are everywhere. i have issued a complaint to the health dept's. pest control dept. via 311. i recommend that others do the same and/or warn neighbors who are not keeping lids on trash that they will receive tickets if the city catches them. neighborhood restaurants also need to take careful steps not to throw garbage out or leave it in their back yards.
I just walked from Flatbush to Vanderbilt on St. Marks Place and saw three rats (all three on the South side of SMP right by the back of the eBay store)!! Gross. -
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Guest wrote:
Awsome!
I just walked from Flatbush to Vanderbilt on St. Marks Place and saw three rats (all three on the South side of SMP right by the back of the eBay store)!! Gross.
Thanks for the info. I need five more rat hides to finish my quilt! -
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Guest wrote:
Awsome!
I just walked from Flatbush to Vanderbilt on St. Marks Place and saw three rats (all three on the South side of SMP right by the back of the eBay store)!! Gross.
Thanks for the info. I need five more rat hides to finish my quilt! -
Rat road kill on Prospect Pl near Flatbush this morning. Yuuuuck.
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sje wrote: How about barbecued? :shock:
I'd totally eat rat. NYC street rat...no. Those things live off of trash and undoubtedly taste as such, but a rat raised for food, fed on grain or whatever , give it up!
http://www.digitalfog.com/index.php/2005/10/whats-for-dinner/ -
You can have mine.
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