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In 1947, alber cam yao wrote "the plague," the devastation of an algerian city overrun by rats and according to my high school english teacher he was using the rats to symbolize the nazi invasion, and the consequences of letting your guard down. in this way the plague was really a metaphor, well, this story is also full of rats, but our story is not a metaphor. >> what do you smell? here in new york, the rats are literal, and they are frickin everywhere, and they chew through electrical wires an...

Term organization very loosely. whos in charge? >> nobody. >> great. how many of you are there? >> we dont know. >> excellent. rats is like an old western posse a. ragtag team of volunteers on a mission to hunt down rustleres and horse thieves. >> is the goal of the organization to get rid of the rats? >> well never get rid of rats. >> its our civic responsibility to do good for our city, so we knocked down the rat population a little bit. >> these dogs are natural born killers. terriers killed ...

Killed? >> dozens. >> really? >> i dont really keep track. >> he does have notches on his collar? he knows right where the rats are, and he wants them, he wants them all, and he wants every rat in the city, dont you? dont you? lets go get em! night falls and the ryders alley gang is ready to go and get the rats, and we are joined by somebody to collect samples for critical ongoing research. >> we distract dna and compare every rat to every other rat and we can figure out exactly how related they...

The dichotomy, the old, the new. >> i go out every day with my crew and we are trapping around the city and we will catch maybe five rats in a day, and i go out with these guys and in an hour they catch me ten. >> scientists about matt are dead serious about the rat problem because the history of rats is down right deadly. in the middle ages the beau bonnick plague killed 50 million people. the culprit? rats. technically it was flees but the flees were on the rats as they are today, and they are...

Threaten to overrun entire communities. the cure? a small and unlikely ban of mild mannered new yorkers committed to taking back their streets. this is richard reynolds. for over 20 years he and a handful of concerned citizens have confronted new yorks rat epidemic head on. these are their pets, and by day they chase the ball and fetch the paper and sit quietly on the paper and sit quietly on their masters laps. by night they reconnect with something a bit more primal, a deep seeded desire to hu...

As cam yao observed in his final paragraph, the plague never dies for good, and it will rouse up rats again, in other words, its okay to feel sorry for the rats, but not too sorry. >> can you use trick photography and make my rat look bigger? im on my way to meet karl edgar blake. karl fell in love are computers in middle school and after that he found a career building internet port you wills, and why is he holding a pig? because hes a man on a mission, a big mission. >> what is the mission i...

Are going, they will run up everything, including your pant leg. >> bad. very bad. >> the solution? as it so often is, duct tape. >> how many times has a rat gone up your trousers? >> actually, its happened once. >> thats enough. >> with merlin on a leash and nine other hands rolling with us, the hundred the begins. the dogs quickly catch a whiff of vermin. >> get the rat, come on! >> get em, merlin. but the rats escape from under a garbage pile and into a minivan. >> thats frustrating. the dog ...

Overrun entire communities. the cure? a small and unlikely ban of mild mannered new yorkers committed to taking back their streets. this is richard reynolds. for over 20 years he and a handful of concerned citizens confronted new yorks rat epidemic head on, and these are their pets, and by day they chase the ball and fetch the paper and sit quietly on their masters laps and by night they reconnect with something a bit more primal, a deep seeded desire to hunt and kill rats. check out the newcome...

>> but they breed so -- oh! seems this runaway rat went looking for sanctuary up the unsecured pant leg of our cameraman, doug. richard was right about that, too. >> oh, its right here! >> right here. its a very simple tip. this is the one, doug. thats the one that was in your, shall we say your inner most thigh. >> got a look at what was up there and his eye fell out. >> so big, thats what size will do to you. >> i dont see how were going to use any of this. >> while i can tell you that no rats...