Rats scurried in broad daylight outside Insomnia Cookies in downtown Evanston. At night, the long-tailed rodents leapt out of trash cans. And around the clock, they forced nearby businesses to wage a “losing battle” to keep them away, store operations manager Laura Dundas said in early March. She estimated that hundreds had overrun the 1700.
of course, a few billion were just taken out downtown by the bankers which is funny. anyway, it may revive new york s reputation as the nation s favorite home for the so-called rattist nor the norway rat. officially it s difficult to get a precise head count on the rat population in the big apple but urban legends says there s a rat for every single person that would get you about 8 million rats. the city serious about the problem, they say. it spends or it sends all of its inspectors to a rodent control academy and also has a rat map on its city website allowing people to track complaints and extermination efforts in their neighborhoods. budget problems possibly limiting the city s pest control efforts score one for the rats, and of course look for more budget problems that hurt the basic lifestyle of most people while the special interest continue to extract phenomenal sums of money led of course by the bankers. just ahead here on the d.r.