Rats In Brooklyn? Get Over It

When WPIX headed out to cover a reported rat convergence around Grand Army Plaza, they found their fair amount of freaked out locals. But in between the shrieks and fear of disease and worry that the cold weather will send even more rats out of the woods, Cynthia Chatman said it's high time everyone just deal. "Well that's the way New York is," she said. "What are you going to do? There are a lot of rats here!" And eventually they're all going to get killed by the opossums anyway, so it's really no biggie.

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By Jaya Saxena in News on September 21, 2010 12:01 PM

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Think2wice

Fuck the rats.

Growing up in this city, I've come to resent this defeatist, resigned, apathetic attitude. I'd still be finding crack vials on the lawn and taking care not to wear gang colors if the Cynthia Chatmans of world were running things.

dept54321

Huh. I kind of agree with you. Want to run for city council?

robingee

Bring in the opossums, then the lions, then the gorillas.

"That's the beauty part. In winter the gorillas simply freeze to death."

JacqueMehoff

I saw this story last night, it was pretty funny seeing the rats roaming around the park in public until a couple of them ate the poison and started shaking and then falling down dying. these weren't the big suckers but medium sized guys with a body length of bout 3-4 inches or so. the factoid mentioned there are 8 rats to every human in nyc.