NYC Giant Rats Overtaking Central Park

NY Post - Rat school is in session as fed-up New Yorkers try to learn how to deal with a surging rodent population.

Rats as big as bunnies are roaming the streets in broad daylight, nesting in trees and chewing through car engine wires that can cost thousands to fix. And there are so many that residents are kvetching about them every chance they get: Complaints about rats to the 311 hotline have totaled 12,632 so far this year, a third more than the 9,042 for all of 2019.

With the Upper West Side teeming with the hungry critters, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal and the city Health Department sponsored the latest incarnation of “Rat Academy,” two hours of rat prevention training livestreamed Tuesday to nearly four dozen supers, tenants and homeowners. The city began such training sessions about 10 years ago.

“Central Park is overrun with huge fat rats,” Sloan wrote. “I saw a man on a bench in the rambles swatting them unsuccessfully with a rake.”

As far as Levine is concerned, the only one to blame is Mayor Bill de Blasio. Not in the 20 years she has lived on the block have rats been so thick.

She is convinced that Hizzoner wants to do away with the Sanitation Department: “He’s a f–king waste. He’s turned this city into a s—hole.”

Saw this headline and was about to breeze past it, "ho hum, another New York City "our rats are bigger and badder than yours" article", but then I saw this picture and holy shit.

Either that's Master Splinter being caught slipping, exposed during the daylight hours, 

or that's the ugliest stray dog the world's ever seen. 

Unless Mutagen legit made its way into the NYC public water system, 

and the rats are going Brady Anderson on us,

Otherwise, how do you explain this? I know New York encourages rat infestations by just leaving trash out on the streets on a nightly basis. But even if those rats are getting six square meals a day, why aren't they just extremely obese? How are they the size of small dogs? 

And chewing through car engine wires? What the fuck?

That's straight out of a Gremlins movie.

p.s. - love this lady.

Dalia Schwalb was traumatized by a gang of 10 to 15 rats outside the 96th Street subway stop last Sunday night.

“You used to see the rats … on the tracks,” she said. “Now they are literally part of the neighborhood. They should pay rent.”

She compared her encounter to the invasion scene from the movie “Ratatouille.”

“We need the Guardian Angels for the rats. I need them to be gone.”