“You dirty rats”
Los Angeles is experiencing an increase in its rat population:
At a press conference at Los Angeles City Hall on Tuesday, DeMaio there were two particular reasons behind the rodent explosion.
“First, the homeless population increase, which provides a source of food which supports population growth,” he said. “Second, many local governments, including Los Angeles, have banned the most effective practices for detecting and eradicating rats.”
Nice going.
These “administrators” beginning with our Mayor and City Council members…eyes-wide-shut. The worst management of a city I can imagine and we have no one to blame but the people that voted these saboteurs into office, election after election.
Homelessness in L.A. is a multi-million dollar business. A couple weeks ago I read the 2018 Annual Report of Union Rescue Mission, more than $26,000,000 income, no public monies received. Add to that many more organizations and the millions of dollars in public funds expended on this “problem” and you get the idea. And I can’t help but notice that with all these increased expeditures and programs for this issue there has been an escalation in the magnitude of the problem. Sickening!
You always get more of what gets subsidized.
So L.A. needs a twenty-thousand member strong infestation of Jack Russell terriers set loose wild in the city. Go get ’em, pups.
Everything the Dems touch turns to sh*t. Detroit, Chicago, etc. A reverse Midas Touch.
Holy Rat Crap Batman ! I just read article referenced above and then did further search on all the bad disease stuff rat urine and crap spreads and the state is passing laws against using effective poison because of the danger to wildlife and the environment and that’s how you get plague and other medieval diseases.
Of course for us old timers going out to the local dumps and shooting rats with .22 rifles was considered part of our social responsibility when we were kids. We did it behind our football stadium where just enough stuff from our locale schools would be dumped and then every once in a while burned (heaven forbid). In later life anytime I saw rodent droppings I would put out multiple rat and mouse baits because I never want to share space with disease spreaders and I would also use a lot of clorox and other disinfectants because that debris is dangerous.
We certainly live in the most unusual and odd times when priorities get so misplaced.
The mayor of my fine city, Austin TX, just traveled to Failifornia to “learn how to deal with the homeless crisis.” What a joke. He and our Marxist city council just made it legal for grifters to camp on city streets… everywhere except in front of City Hall, of course. Some animals are more equal than others.
L.A. needs a legendary method of rat removal, aka the Pied Piper. Here’s the Walt Disney version of the rats of Hamelin dancing to the Piper’s tune:
[the segment of the rats leaving the town to the Piper’s music begins at 2:45]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhg843FdAG0&ab_channel=OldClassicCartoons
The Black Plague is soon to follow.
Works for me.
I always wondered how we could reduce the influence of these major population centers on our body politic.
Looks like they’ll take care of it for us.
I feel like Gen Wilder in Willie Wonka: “Stop! Don’t!”
A friend at UNM took a recent trip with her family to New Orleans. They loved it, especially the food. However, there was one restaurant in which a rat ran across her purse. Not to keen on that.
I lived in New Orleans in the seventies. While I remember plenty of cockroaches, I don’t remember rats.
Then I recalled a Katrina story I heard from a New Orleans friend. After the hurricane the city remained partially evacuated for a long time. Some people worried that pets would return home and starve without their owners. So those people drove around the city throwing bags of pet food into empty houses!
One guess as to which animals ate that food.
I read the 2018 Annual Report of Union Rescue Mission, more than $26,000,000 income,
\When I used to take my medical students to Skid Row, the directors of the shelters told us the “homeless” could eat 10 meals a day if they desired. An awful lot of crap has been written about all this. They also told us that 60% of homeless are psychotic and 60% are addicts. Half of each group is both.
“A reverse Midas Touch.”
It’s the ol’ Merde Touch.
You see the basic phenomenon everywhere in the US- the basic functions of government at all levels not being done. It will only get worse.
I actually have a technical solution to the rat problem..
not that anyone is interested..
same with the high speed chip…
and the software that writes software for you…
i am not human from what i understand…
and like ignoring the kid who always raises their hand, they want the answers from some other class… allowing bronx science rent a brains who have no creds would be like letting the field N come inside and have breakfast..
Now if you took Cagney’s gat and loaded it with rat shot ammo, you’d have the beginnings of a solution. Oh, wait …
I’ve only seen Cagney in “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “One Two Three,” which I both liked.
What have I missed?
huxley,
Neo’s clip is from Taxi, which I’ve not seen. Other classic Noir drama’s are The Public Enemy and White Heat. Other famous ones are Angles with Dirty Faces, and Mr. Roberts. Many, many others. White Heat has the famous finale line, “[I] Made it, Ma! Top of the world!”
I live in Virginia across the Potomac river from Washington DC. Orkin pest control company ranks Washington as the fourth rattiest city, just behind Los Angeles and New York. Chicago has been ranked No. 1 for years.
TommyJay: Come to think, I did see “Mr. Roberts,” but I paid more attention to Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon and William Powell.
A good movie. I miss the old Hollywood style of storytelling.
I used to live in Adams Morgan and spent many a night with a couple of neighbors shooting rats with pump Crossman pellet rifles in .177 in an alley back of the house between Euclid St. and Columbia Rd. We never lacked for targets.
I had a Crosman model 140 .22 air rifle when I was a pre-teen. I used to shoot the stems off of dandelions at 25 yds. A pest or two may have been dispatched.
I forgot I saw “Love Me or Leave Me” recently, which is a Doris Day vehicle, though Cagney has a strong co-starring role. Based on a true story.
Surprisingly, there are a couple other Day-Cagney collaborations: The West Point Story and Starlift. Cagney was “an accomplished dancer and easily played light comedy.” — IMDB
I was in charge of shooting rats around the corn crib with my 22LR. I was 8 years old when I started. Winchester 62, great little rifle, but not as accurate as my Rossi 62 copy. 22LR was created by white males. Only white toxic males should be allowed to purchase and shoot it.
huxley: “Public Enemy” and “Angels With Dirty Faces” are awesome, Cagney is just dripping with gangster charisma in both that hasn’t been matched since IMHO. The execution finale in “Angels” is stunning, it leaves a mark.
“Cagney was “an accomplished dancer and easily played light comedy.” ”
He was also in “Footlight Parade”, a Busby Berkeley musical a la 42d Street and the Golddiggers series.
“At a press conference at Los Angeles City Hall on Tuesday, [b]DeMaio[\b] there were two particular reasons behind the rodent explosion.”
That is Carl Demaio. He is the evening drive time talk show host on KOGO radio in San Diego and a real firecracker. His organization, ReformCalifornia.org, has been able to accomplish much more than the sorry California Republican party. Why weren’t some elected Republicans having that press conference?
The state is going down the drain due to the Democrats actions and all the Republicans do is give a few speeches in Sacto and get run over by the Democrats mega-majority.
Instead of electing a fire-breathing Trump supporter as the party leader the Republicans elected a meek “diversity” woman candidate who they think can get the minorities to vote for them. They are delusional.
On a related topic, did you notice that the Ebola outbreak in Africa is now listed as a world-wide healt emergency by the bureaucrats at the World Health Organization. If you recall, during the last flareup some Ebola cases got into the US. Wonder what happens if Ebola starts spreading among the CA bums and drug addicts?
Pay a bounty. 5 dollars a rat.
You need to go FULL MEXICAN.
I am deadly serious. US is based in freedom, law and meritocracy. That’s a good combination, but the moment you take law abiding and meritocracy out of the equation, freedom is a very shitty choice.
Mexico works because it has much less freedom than US. Whatever the system, you need it to combine the elements in a logical way. Freedom requires some elements. You don’t have them, then you have problems.
That’s what’s happening here with rats. Check Mexico DF, they don’t have problems with rats like that.
You just can’t go Half Hispanic, because that doesn’t work. If you mix the Hispanic corruption with the American freedom, that’s a recipe for a Third World city. I don’t think going Hispanic was a wise idea, but hey, that’s not my call. If America want to go Hispanic, be my guest, BUT YOU NEED TO DO IT PROPERLY. You just can’t stay half way, keeping old American traditions, that doesn’t work.
I await with anticipation for the announcement that the mayor and entire city council have come down with Typhus or Plague.
Then maybe something will be done to restore law and order to the streets of Los Angeles.
Note that Austin now is demanding that the Texas Governor fix the mess that their city government created.
The end product of extreme environmentalism is the dark ages. The interesting thing about California’s leaders- from their Governor to the legislature to the mayors of the major cities, to the leaders of their universities- they all have a view of themselves and their state that is the complete opposite of what is actually taking place. That disconnect can only go on for so long. Reality, when it comes calling on that state, is going to leave a nasty footprint.
I am certainly not pro-rat (except for Templeton in Charlotte’s Web), and obviously public health is paramount, but I’m wondering whether the LA rat situation is significantly worse than NYC or other massive urban areas. In New York you literally see rats come out on playgrounds as evening approaches. Every corner bodega has a cat on rat patrol. A few decades ago I lived in a basement apartment in a beautiful townhouse in Boston’s Back Bay, and I would often see rats darting across my street at night (I shudder to recall). Is LA truly in worse shape than rat-central NYC? I hope not.
CV, when I first moved to Boston in 1979, I lived in Back Bay. I was told that until they cleaned out the alleys between the streets it was full of rats. Once gentrification began the new owners would have “ally rallies” and bring in dumpsters to drag away the abandoned mattresses and other junk. That solved most of the problem. In a well run city that would have never happened in the first place.
The problem was that for years, the city politicians were a really corrupt bunch that only cared about lining their pockets.
Paul,
I live in Back Bay around 1984-86 and I recall it as fairly clean, generally speaking. I don’t remember trash like abandoned mattresses, but I do remember the rats! Fortunately I only saw them outside, not inside.
Paul in Boston: I moved to Kenmore Square just in time for the Blizzard of 1978!
And a block up from the Rathskeller, the rock club affectionately known as the Rat. Though I never saw any rats around there.
Art, if you were half as smart as you repeatedly claim, you would get another job, or start your own company, instead of constantly whining that nobody listens to your ideas…..once you got your product to a certain point, take it on “Shark Tank”. Just don’t go “ to early” or they will tell you “you have a product, not a company……” though I realize there are different kinds of smart.
Feed the rats to the homeless. Or pay the homeless to catch rats. Win Win.