This is a very nice website! I would love some Baye Area graphs.
NYC Rat Sightings (Daily)
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#52All my times visiting NYC I never saw a rat. All my life living on the river around Boston I saw them all the time. And man they were the big ones. I have added nothing to the discussion.
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Ever have rats suddenly show up in your building? I have. That's when you speed dial the city to fix their problem.
Yes, never bothered. Caught them myself.
Envious. That wasn't possible in my case although I also did it myself. I killed hundreds using 30 lbs of dry ice. The city parking lot nearby had dozens of nests I mapped and sealed.
Btw, how did you "catch" them? Were they Norwegian rats?
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There is a difference between a garbage bin and a pile of garbage. NYC has piles of garbage bags just on the street.
NYC has both, because I generally consider compost a type of garbage and that is definitely stored in bins and hauled to the sidewalk, at least for the buildings that have opted into the composting program.
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#55All my times visiting NYC I never saw a rat. All my life living on the river around Boston I saw them all the time. And man they were the big ones. I have added nothing to the discussion.
Who is responsible for picking up a dead rat in NYC? The biggest rat I ever saw was a dead one on William St and as an alien I wasn’t really sure what the protocol was. No one else around paid any attention to it.
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Not being sarcastic. Every other place I've been uses containers (wheeled bins, cans, dumpsters) to prevent rats and to make collection cheaper. What is the purpose of piles?
> What is the purpose of piles We like to keep out-of-towners rattled.
At the cost of rats everywhere? I guess it works. At least I have an alternate explanation for why it's tolerated, even though I don't think this is a serious response.
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#57All my times visiting NYC I never saw a rat. All my life living on the river around Boston I saw them all the time. And man they were the big ones. I have added nothing to the discussion.
I don't think I ever saw a rat on my dozen plus trips to NYC, but since moving here several years ago I have seen more than I can count. Many of those were in 2020 when I would see large groups (5-10) roaming around at night in search of dwindling food sources.
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#58All my times visiting NYC I never saw a rat. All my life living on the river around Boston I saw them all the time. And man they were the big ones. I have added nothing to the discussion.
Who is responsible for picking up a dead rat in NYC? The biggest rat I ever saw was a dead one on William St and as an alien I wasn’t really sure what the protocol was. No one else around paid any attention to it.
Call 311 or use their online form.
Re: NYC Rat Sightings (Daily)
#59All my times visiting NYC I never saw a rat. All my life living on the river around Boston I saw them all the time. And man they were the big ones. I have added nothing to the discussion.
Who is responsible for picking up a dead rat in NYC? The biggest rat I ever saw was a dead one on William St and as an alien I wasn’t really sure what the protocol was. No one else around paid any attention to it.
That would be DHMH[1] or Sanitation, maybe. You may be able to put a report in via 311, but I wouldn't count on a timely response (unless you count "a bigger rat eats the already big rat" as a response).
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_He...
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#60All my times visiting NYC I never saw a rat. All my life living on the river around Boston I saw them all the time. And man they were the big ones. I have added nothing to the discussion.
I was once standing outside a night club in Brooklyn, next to a construction site, when a rat came charging around the corner being chased by a cat. The rat smacked straight into my ankle and bounced off, briefly stunned. The cat also froze, trying to take in the situation. A split second later they charged down the sidewalk into the gloom. The rat was so big my ankle hurt the rest of the night.
POV: you're the foreground art in a Tom & Jerry cartoon