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    NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
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    Image of x23 x23
    11/02/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    um....


    [www.somethingawful.com]

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    Image of bahalana bahalana
    11/02/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    I'll take rats any day over the giant flying cockroaches we have down here. At least the rats are smart enough not to crawl in bed with you...
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    Image of AubreyStheno AubreyStheno
    11/01/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    Was in china town a while back on a late night drunken binge. A buddy kicked a dumpster and a SEA of rats poured onto the street. My girlfriend and I were perched on a mailbox watching them flow by---it was like something from Revelations in the bible, or a CGI scene in a film.
    Now I'm in baltimore and waging my own private war against the liitle buggers (and when I say little, I actually mean possum-sized).
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    Image of Metron4 Metron4
    10/31/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    "I had declared a war against rats."
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    Image of CraziestGadgets.com CraziestGadgets.com
    10/31/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    hotspot map...lol. as if you would be able to see any part of Manhattan past the 10,000 rat icons on the map. there's a great book on NYC rats, more interesting than you'd think:

    Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    10/31/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    Fuck the rats, they stay outdoors for the most part... lets repeal the ban on DDT and take care of the mice.
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    10/31/08

    @Hiphopopotamus: And bedbugs.
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    10/31/08

    @Hiphopopotamus: And roaches.
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    Image of Giz Has Lost It Giz Has Lost It
    10/31/08

    @Hiphopopotamus: And hippos.


    (Just kidding - love hippos!)

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/31/08

    @Hiphopopotamus: Problem with bedbugs is that they're more resilient to poisons. It'll work for a little while, then they develop a resistance to it and come back. The only way to deal with them is to make sure your environment is not suitable for them.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/31/08

    @Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning an...: The same is true for roaches. If you have poor conditions in your kitchen, like lots of dark moist places, they generally never go away, no matter how much poison you put down. Chalk and bug bombs are only bandaid solutions. Keeping things dry, and using slipping bay leaves in hidden crevices usually works to keep them away.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/31/08

    @EricAlder: Hippos account for more than twice the attacks accounted for crocodiles. We must declare war on this obese water horse.
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    Image of propertius propertius
    10/31/08

    @Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning an...: Also they don't like breezy conditions, so ventilation helps (at least when it's not winter). Reminds me of a Columbia U. building (one of the "roach motels") I stayed in once at 113th + B-way. Never saw so many roaches - all sizes and at all hours day and night.


    Who knows? - maybe they can train rats to go after b-bugs and roaches.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/31/08

    @propertius: Get a swarm of house centipedes. They'll eat the roaches. Too bad you'd then be stuck with a swarm of horribly terrifying, fast-moving 30-legged monsters.
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    Image of alowishus wants to run a Saab Sonett III at LeMons alowishus wants to run a Saab Sonett III at LeMons
    10/31/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    OMG that's a CUTE rat.
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    Image of Giz Has Lost It Giz Has Lost It
    10/31/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    Willard rides again!
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    Image of anonymousmonk anonymousmonk
    10/31/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    I love my pet rats. They beat out all the other small pets by a longshot.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    10/31/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    I thought it was going to be a story about making each rat a wi-fi repeater blanketing the city in wi-fi.


    That would be awesome.

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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    10/31/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    You mean they can't cook like Remy in Ratatouille???
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/31/08

    @Noobs-R-Us: No, they can't cook but they can be cooked..
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    10/31/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    We've got eleventy-trillion sources of news in this city.

    I'm really disappointed this got picked up by SF Gate.


    Hmmmm...must be a competing-liberal-enclave-smear-campaign.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/31/08

    @92BuickLeSabre: They're just jealous that they don't have enough rats of their own..
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    Image of jcrockerman jcrockerman
    10/31/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    I went to visit NYC earlier this year.....and there were RATS everywhere!!! It was effin amazing!!! :D
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/31/08

    @jcrockerman:Well I'm not sure where you were but I was just in mid-town this past Sunday and there was nary a rat in sight..
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/31/08

    @jcrockerman: You went all the way to NYC just to eat at Taco Bell? Might I direct you to the visitors' center?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/31/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: ?? No actually I went to see a show. I didn't eat in the city, although I did the weekend before that at Ted's Montana Grill, where I enjoyed a nice medium rare ribeye. No Taco Bell for me thanks. I'm making a run from the border
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    Image of skrunchy skrunchy
    10/31/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    31st and broadway corner parking lot. dont mess!!!!! haha they all come out at night!
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/31/08

    In reply to NYC Launches "Rat Information Portal" With Hotspot Maps
    The rats and cockroaches are going to get all medieval on each other in a Predator vs Aliens throw down with NYC as their battlegrounds.


    I'm not sure which side will win but we'll all be losers in the end...

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