Comments on: “You dirty rats”

By: batemjo

batemjo — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 11:57:04 +0000

Feed the rats to the homeless. Or pay the homeless to catch rats. Win Win.

By: Jon baker

Jon baker — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 19:10:36 +0000

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.

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 23:45:09 +0000

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.

By: CV

CV — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 23:42:02 +0000

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.

By: Paul in Boston

Paul in Boston — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:37:48 +0000

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.

By: CV

CV — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 16:41:08 +0000

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.

By: I'll take the next cab.

I'll take the next cab. — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:35:01 +0000

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.

By: Edward

Edward — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 08:49:57 +0000

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.

By: Yann

Yann — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 07:24:43 +0000

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.

By: Backofanenvelope

Backofanenvelope — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 07:24:29 +0000

Pay a bounty. 5 dollars a rat.