Coyotes Up
- Cook County animal control says the coyote population is on the rise and that people may see more than usual in the area.
The reason why coyotes are on the rise is because their food source has also increased, according to Dr. Donna Alexander, an administrator at the Cook County Animal and Rabies Control. Rats and rabbits have increased their population, having managed to get to more food.
We see quite a few coyotes at VRI, seeing as how the hours coincide with hunting hours. We've also noticed an increase in rats all over the districts we frequent and this leads to the question, what's up with Rahm's rat budget? Has the city stopped baiting alleys? Because it isn't just us - we've heard dozens of coppers at court and dozens of citizens in "positive community interactions [now REQUIRED by G-Mac]" and the neighbors have been none to subtle in the conversations over the backyard fences.
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posted by SCC at 12:33 AM
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Come on... Don't give Rahm room for a rat budget tax
too many dogs, too many cats, too many ridiculous animal worshippers. Animal lovers have become as radical as any other type of radical. Civilised society is reverting back to primitive lifestyles. More dogs, cats, raccoons, possums, squirrels, rabbits, skunks, and deer not in forests and rural areas but in the city, and that means more and more animal feces and carcasses, and that explains your rats and mice, coyotes, and fox, which means more fleas, maggots, flies, and every other type of pest, which means more disease and more pigeons, bats, gulls, and filth in the air, water, and all around your home, in your yard and in your alleys and parks and playgrounds.
Can't eradicate, though, because that would be inhumane...
There are no more coyotes around Grant Park and McCormick place. They have been displaced due to Maggie Park and Miegs Field / McCormack Place building (improvements). They are now around all the city neighborhoods!
Saw big cayot last night in 18. Speaking of rats, 18 has huge problem they are all over the place especially in the 20 secotor.
Rat Patrol....Rahm had better not give up on Rat Patrol Abatement. Oh, I suppose he wants us to pay separate for that too. We have enough murders without death by Rat. There are more food sources for Rats and other fury critters cause of lots more restaurants in the city plus more Neighborhood Fests and Lollapalooza Food Fests. Rats find food easily laying around. And there are more dirty people who toss out food wrappers and drink containers from their cars...just take a look at the grassy ramps and knolls of the Dan Ryan south from 22nd Street. Ugly with litter and debris. We need to scream loud and long and stop giving our precious votes to idiots and crooks. We glorified and King'd Daley...look where it got us...can't even finish up life without worrying about our Pension and Health Benefits...Wake Up. Wake the Fridge Up.
I wish the coyotes would eat some of these fucking Skunks in the area!
Throughout history the rats have been with us. Historically it has never been a good sign when the population increased dramatically. Usually great disaster followed and the rats ate the bodies of the many dead. But that was back in the old days. What could happen in these moderan times. Rahm and Obama are watching over us.
Mommy, Mommy, Look at the big brown doggie!
Rats? Bahhh!
Just wait until they start charging for garbage pick-up.
Just wait until some wonderful undocumented dreamer brings some fleas with
P.Pestis from the Southwest.
What is the CompStat report about Coyotes? Are they responsible for RespectStat? Are they responsible for the "Death Investigations" (formerly called murders)???
The rat population in downtown Chiraq is out of control.
I've seen as many as 50 at a time scurrying about.
If we could eliminate even half that population...
Seems like the rat problem has exploded since towns went to these plastic garbage totes; every sanitation textbook written for the last 100 years says to put garbage "in metal containers with tight-fitting lids." No.
Also we have a new crowd that piles the most God-awful messes overflowing the can and all over the place.
Cicero has been especially bad, and it's working its way along. Running in broad daylight Diversey/Narragansett, and Bel/Cragin is crawling. Are they getting heavy north of Belmont now?
"The rat budget?" Probably spent on stupid banners for light poles and "Group Ritual Imagining Tools."
First things first.
Got to look at the neighborhoods in the city. So much garbage thrown about, especially in the ghetto. There's a rise in the number of corn cobs too. (that Hispanic treat) More rats bring more coyotes.
Won't the Coyotes just eat all the rats? Coyote eats rat, human shoots Coyote, end of rat and Coyote. If only it were so simple.
The village of Tolono recently voted NOT to have village shoot over this issue.. seems if you kill one, another will replace it.
Sounds familiar.
Not many rabbits in the Village tho...............
Welcome to Rahm's Chicago. More graffiti, more rats, impassable streets often lacking cones or horses to denote damage, and wildings. Great idea voting this creep in a second time.
What worries me is do we all think the City is filtering our drinking water properly still? Budgets get cut....
Now Rahm is threatening us with rats. Somehow, that's just his style. Baiting will be limited, and garbage collection will be cut back to twice a month, if he doesn't get his huge tax increases.
Chicago RatMap --
http://tinyurl.com/nqnmlbb
Residents say rats are overrunning Chicago's North Side
It’s Chicago against the rats, and the rats appear to be winning.
Oct 02 2015
"CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) - It’s Chicago against the rats, and the rats appear to be winning.
"Phone calls to 3-1-1 show that affluent neighborhoods on the North Side have the biggest problem, or at least the most complaints.
"Neighborhoods like West Town, Lake View and Lincoln Park have some of the highest number of complaint calls. The city says there have been more than 26,000 calls to 3-1-1 so far this year, and more than 2300 of them have come from people in Lincoln Park.
"But when it comes to rats, it seems it's a no-win situation.
“I mean, I had one out here the other night, it looked like a small dog it was that big, it was awful,” said Lincoln Park resident Kimberly Terzis."
http://tinyurl.com/qeblemt
Maybe we can drown the rats in some of that $14.00/gallon no-bid bleach the city is buying...
2 days after copper murdered in New York they allow another anti-police rally! Done policing the thugs then can call "black lies matter" clowns for help may the officer RIP!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/23/two-days-after-nypd-cop-gunned-down-anti-cop-rally-held-in-times-square/
In federal court here we have a working copper on trial for doing something many coppers would do if they seen a thug with a gun, the coppers should get awarded for not shooting the thug! Praying copper is not guilty but in this anti-police climate hopefully he gets fair not guilty verdict!
Baiting are you kidding? That costs money.... Rats all over the city, see them everywhere. Whole different city on midnights.
Streets and San has started filling some of the severely depleted ranks of extermination teams, but way to slow! Has anybody noticed streets workers in the alley looking and counting garbage cans? Looking like more carts more $$$$ for city! So if your responsible and clean up your property throw garbage in carts unlike thuggish areas your penalized! Wasn't this zalewskis 23 ward alderman idea? Hey alderman can we dump are extra garbage into your carts and by your office? Does the city pickup office garbage? Hmm just wondering!
'Rattiest' city cut spending on rodent control
Monday, November 03, 2014
"Why do there seem to be so many rats running wild right now and what are Chicago officials doing to stop it?
"We're rat-packed according to a leading extermination company that recently named Chicago the "rattiest" city in America.
"If you've had a close encounter with a member of the rattus family, then you know how nauseating it can be. The I-Team has discovered city spending on rodent control has been cut each of the past four years.
"You know, I've had rats crawl up my arm and jump off my shoulder," said refuse hauler Darryl Anderson.
"Anderson sees rats every day on his garbage route. Twelve years on the job and he says it's worse than ever.
"Researchers are finding rats harbor even more disgusting and dangerous diseases than once thought, teeming with salmonella, e coli and even a form of the deadly hantavirus according to a recent New York study.
"In 2010 Chicago was spending more than $6.5 million a year on rat fighting-primarily with bait and poison. This year it is down almost 30 percent."
http://abc7chicago.com/news/i-team-rattiest-city-cut-spending-on-rodent-control/379336/
...and, on top of that, what do you expect when you see this?
http://tinyurl.com/qfjf6k4
From the helpful site --
http://waronfilth.com/
it's a crime to kill rats and the State called an expert in a trial to talk about Rat Psychology. with nonsense like that and prosecuting someone for animal cruelty for putting rats in a washing machine, what do you expect??!?!
Hopefully the coyotes will start eating the two legged rats,
Urban coyotes also like to eat peoples kitty cats, and small to medium sized dogs. So keep your pets close to the house and be prepared to protect them.
Also stray dog, snakes, skunks, opossums and really nasty raccoons.
Not to mention the occasional cougar, the four legged variety not grandma gone wild.
Be sure to remember all those animal lovers who would burn your house down if you kill a marauding beast.
In Logan Square there doesn't seem to be any big increase or decrease in the rat population. But there's a lot more rabbits. Wrightwood and its N/S cross streets from Kimball to Central Park are pretty healthy. And friends and family tell me the Boulevard and its surrounding streets are overrun with the adorable little garden bandits. So what's their food source ? Maybe it's all the community gardens that are popping up on unused lots. They don't look very protected - not much fencing around some of them. Are the Logan Square Farmers Market vendors dumping unsold produce in the neighborhood ?
This coyote was actually in the underground parking lot of the college and got spooked.
Uploaded on Feb 1, 2011
This scared coyote was in front of Truman College near the Wilson El stop in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago Tuesday morning. (Feb 2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQFJtC7c-LY
I've never seen so many rats in my life. Even in daylight hours. Perhaps old Rahm is trying to send a message, a la Jack Nicholson in The Departed. Guy needs to go!
Poisoned rats will kill the coyotes.
Are more pussy cats the answer?
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Good. Maybe they can take care of our rat problem. I'm sick off all these rats.
You are not kidding. Saw one running around last night in Beverly.
Forget the coyotes beware of LAND SHARKS!
There is at least one cross bred Coy Wolf that inhabits the wooded areas on the far north side. It's been seen in the Labagh Woods (016/017) and along the sanitary canal (024).
maybe rahm should pay the coyotes to go into chicago alleys and eat the rats. no doubt one of his buddies could work up a contract for such a deal.
Tracking Coyotes in Urban settings is a waste of tax payers money,They will Kill anything weeker and smaller than them,No Shit..
"The village of Tolono recently voted NOT to have village shoot over this issue.. seems if you kill one, another will replace it."
10/23/2015 07:09:00 AM
So shoot that one too.
D'oh.
So the city cuts spending on rodent control but is going to start a garbage tax? Why don't we have a big piñata of Aldercreature Ervin and charge $1.00 a whack?? Instead of candy it could be filled with loose cigarettes and have barb west scurrying around to pick up the loosies.
The sheep are the real problem...and they vote.
Good rat discussion here, no press releases, just on the ground with the people who live with them.
http://chicago.everyblock.com/announcements/jun18-rats-6920413/
One fellow here observes how construction companies hauling in dirt fill are importing and spreading rats. Every load they dumped, he saw more jump out.
Wrigleyville got it when they were working on the ball park.
http://wgntv.com/2015/01/29/wrigley-field-renovation-brings-rats-to-the-neighborhood
Another article seems to have disappeared from the web, but it was about the huge garbage/rat problem in Belmont-Cragin. Said that the city had gone to two garbage pickups per week in some areas there, to deal with the heaps of used diapers and whole catering trays of spoiled food [that I have seen too] just tossed on the ground. Woman from S&S stated that "it was due to the overcrowding of illegal aliens into single-family homes there," and I believe she got fired for saying that.
Is this overpopulation of rats and other wild animals a sign that the end is near?
In the real world, i.e out on the range and in the plains away from all city and municipal bullshit, coyotes are treated as they always have been: as varmints that can be shot on sight.
I know people who step outside on their porch and just fire away at those critters, at will.
14 district parking lot has its fair share of rabbits and rats
No problem, just sit out on the back porch, bait the yard. Load up some 22 cb long's in the old 10/22 and go at it. Quieter than most airguns. Won't cycle the action though. Don't do it if your neighbors would freak.
The rat budget?" Probably spent on stupid banners for light poles and "Group Ritual Imagining Tools."
First things first.
10/23/2015 06:29:00 AM
Yup, fancy streetlights, stupid expensive pavement inlays, dedicated bike lanes, etc..
I saw a coyote running west on Ogden but I did not have my camera to take his picture or call it in to animal control at the time and forgot once I was home.
The problem with poisoning rats is that they crawl in holes and die. If you want to know what that smells like, go to the pumps at North and Throop and take a deep breath thru your nose. That's what death smells like.
I don't know why everyone is so bent out of shape regarding the rats on the streets. Maybe if we gave them more support and encouragement to stay in school and graduate and work towards getting good paying jobs they wouldn't be running around all night causing problems. Then they would stop having baby rats and letting them run all over the city. Sorry, what were we talking about?
I saw the movie "Ratatouille" and I really have a hard time hating the little guys.
Anonymous said...
Tracking Coyotes in Urban settings is a waste of tax payers money,They will Kill anything weeker and smaller than them,No Shit..
10/23/2015 10:58:00 AM
Coyotes kill when they are hungry. Then they eat what they kill. You cannot eat an iPhone.
The Rat Hunters Of New York
http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2013/the-rat-hunters-of-new-york/
Great story. Action! Adventure! High drama! Folks meet at an appointed place with their dogs and have at it.
"Reynolds divides the group into two teams; one enters from the north side, the other from the south, slowly approaching the trash pile from two flanks. Once both teams near the alley’s midway point, Reynolds yells for everybody to stop. Dogs bark and strain at their leashes. Tails wag like mad. It’s 9:55 p.m.
“Okay,” he shouts, “let ‘em go!”
Whee!
Here, some tips from even the restrictive UK about rat elimination with air guns. Video links seem to be broken, but good reading.
https://www.ratcontroltricks.com/shooting-rats/
Any way you can eliminate a rat, it's a mitzvah, a good deed.
It's them or us, right?
Norway Rat teeth grow five inches per year. They can't stop gnawing on stuff, or their teeth will pierce their skull, into the brain, and kill them.
You got real motivation here.
Anonymous said...
Tracking Coyotes in Urban settings is a waste of tax payers money,They will Kill anything weeker and smaller than them,No Shit..
10/23/2015 10:58:00 AM
Like house cats, my girlfriend's Pomeranian, an infant in a stroller.
There are a pair of pesky, constantly yelping dogs on the 1700 Block of Neva. Your would be doing the neighbors a favor by sending hem over there. Also the squirrels have been digging the hell out of my lawn. If the coyotes are from south of the border I'll provide Chipotle Sauce, if from Canada I'll provide Tapatioin Sauce.
What I learned from my garbage collectors.
If you see the garbage cart lids eaten out that is squirrels.
If the carts are eaten out at the bottom it's rats.
I have seen and smelled what rats could do to a living human being. We found a sick derelict in the basement of a building on Washington Boulevard in the Old 15th District during the severe snows of 1978-79. The people in the apartment above heard his cries for two weeks but didn't call. They said we thought you would think we were crazy.
The poor, I don't even know what to call him smelled of death because his feet ankles and hand had been eaten away. We took him in the wagon to Loretto Hospital which still had nuns working there and they cried over him. He lost both legs at the knee, one hand and the fingers off the other.
His story got into the tabloids around the world and people from as far away as Australia sent him cards and money via my name, Chicago Police Department. thirty-six years ago and I can still see that basement, hear his voice and feel the rats run over the tops of my shoes.
I suppose Rahm won't do a damn thing for our neighborhoods. It will take a full blown crisis where can make a buck for his pals.
Lots of Coyotes on the west side. Probably because there are so many body parts laying around on the west side. Kids in the Garfield Park lagoon and didn't they just find an adult body cut up around Lake and Kolin? If there is a food supply, there will be predators!
Saw a big-ass rat on Monroe St. this morning in the Loop. Not the usual kind, though. It was Scabby!
Coyotes eat vermin. What's the fucking problem? Unless the 2-legged vermin inhabiting City Hall is gettin' nervous, in which case we ought to train those Coyotes to hang out there :-)
I have had to bait for rats and mice myself because they were literally starting to run through my flower beds in the middle of the day. Part of the problem is that I live next door to Fred Sanford, which doesn't help since he provides them free housing. I have basically eliminated the problem from around my house and garbage cans but the over on the next block, I swear that I see them coming out with a picnic basket and silverware as they prepare for their next meal. It also doesn't help that when your garbage can is broken, has holes or no lid, it takes months to get the request fulfilled through 311 yet I find it interesting that they want us to call 311 for leaf pick up this year. I think the mayor just wants to gauge how much lawn and leaf refuse there is so that he could bill us separately for that service as well.
"Rats. Rats. Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red blood! All these will I give you if you will obey me."
It seems that Rahm is auditioning for the role of Renfield opposite bloodsucker Obama as Dracula.
My cottage neighbor grabs for his .223 when he spots coyotes. Here, we dispatch a helicopter when one is spotted out on the ice. Wrong kind of dispatch in Chicago!
In recent years, I have seen deer, coyotes, opossums, skunks and raccoons in the city limits. In the sky, one may see cranes, falcons and hawks. Rats are everywhere and it is not uncommon for the rodents to be seen in broad daylight. The population of feral cats is exploding too as simpletons keep feeding the strays.
Bad sanitation is also an issue as there are trails of litter all over the streets near every public school. People throw food waste everywhere and ignore trash cans.
For the urban wildlife, the improved conditions of area waterways (US Army Corps of Engineers) has made some of the stagnant stretches of Chicago River capable of supporting animals.
Critter problem? Two words "Golden Malrin" Google it but be extremely extremely careful if you use it.
Does anyone remember when enterprising young men were netting pidgeons in the Loop and selling them in Chinatown?
"The reason why coyotes are on the rise is because their food source has also increased..."
Though it goes contrary to the moral framework we like to impose on the world, the same is true with human coyotes. The more humanitarian concern and tax dollars we've directed their way, the more resentful, brazen, and bestial they seem to become. One of the supreme ironies of nature.
Lots of rats every Wednesday at city hall.
"There's a rise in the number of corn cobs too..."
Yeah, must be all those corn cobs.
Chicago needs to have some rogue wolverines
Take up residence.
Since it's too cold for hyenas...
For rats I suggest the giant T-Rex rat trap and one of the boxes you can put them in. Rats tend to have bad eyesight and often run along walls.
http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/protecta-sidekick-rat-bait-station-p-1287.html
I use big binder clips to make it easier to open the boxes. I probably kill 20 rats a year at some small apartment buildings I own. Put boxes along walls outside. I don't typically use bait they just mosey on in and SNAP. I did buy a bait that looks like ketchup and it did seem to increase my kill rate, but I often forget to bring it when I visit the buildings.
Outside collecting rent and watching the buildings appreciate killing rats is my greatest joy as a landlord. I just toss their dead carcasses into my composter. Ashes to ashes etc etc.
I don't think it has much effect on the local rat population, but I'm doing my bit.
In the summer it's easy to know when I have a dead one.........STINK
And I thought the rats were only in the city council and on the fifth floor.
Rat Lives Matter
Saw a bunch of rats run out from a homeless guys pile of blankets. Thinking someone was prob dead under there I lifted them up and got a half asleep 'hey officer'. I asked if he was ok and got a 'yea I'm fine, why?'. Just askin pal.
Shooting rats could be fun and great target shooting. It could be a sport.
If done right you will need a great back stop because you need to know ware the bullet will stop remember safety all times.
Coyotes, Rats, & Gangstas, oh my!
Seems to me that if you brought in some of those feral ball- and Burmese pythons that are plaguing the state of Florida, it would solve the rat, coyote and gang-banger problems all in one fell swoop. Of course, a 7 foot python that is all muscle and swallows its food whole may also be a little intimidating to a 4' 11" mayor.
10/23/2015 10:03:00 PM
There are many organizations in Chicago that Trap Neuter and Return cats (TNR). They are good for the rat and mice population. They no longer breed or spray. They usually are part of a colony with a caregiver. They have caregivers throughout the city that feed and give them shelter. A TNR cat has the left tip of his ear cut off. They are also usually chipped, registered, and protected by the county. They were referred to as feral. Now they are called "free roaming", I guess not to be confused with a feral that is not fixed.
Europeans brought rats to this continent. Damn Europeans.
"I have seen and smelled what rats could do to a living human being. We found a sick derelict in the basement of a building on Washington Boulevard in the Old 15th District during the severe snows of 1978-79."
10/23/2015 08:49:00 PM
So you're saying that a bunch of chanting, obese, purple-lipsticked "community activists" with ball caps and T-shirts and bullhorns were nowhere in sight when help was needed, huh?
I figured that.
"We serve and protect" and then go home and undress in the garage and trash-bag our clothes sometimes...
...and make a little side-motion for the bottle a sour mash on the way to the shower.
God bless and stay safe.
"The people in the apartment above heard his cries for two weeks but didn't call. They said we thought you would think we were crazy."
10/23/2015 08:49:00 PM
No snitchin', huh? Gawd. "Man calling for help in the basement," 911, no big thing.
Call taker might "Did you look?"
"Naw. We scared."
Can't blame them there. "OK, we'll send the police."
*
Yeah, must be all those corn cobs.
Lol
Population is up due to high welfare. If gimme dats had to work for their own food, they wouldn't be so wasteful. That, and the third world sanctuary............
Anonymous Anonymous said...
"The people in the apartment above heard his cries for two weeks but didn't call. They said we thought you would think we were crazy."
10/23/2015 08:49:00 PM
No snitchin', huh? Gawd. "Man calling for help in the basement," 911, no big thing.
Call taker might "Did you look?"
"Naw. We scared."
Can't blame them there. "OK, we'll send the police."
10/24/2015 04:13:00 PM
They didn't look, they didn't call anyone, not the landlord, not the building janitor. We dragged a couple of those mopes down there to look at that guy and chewed them out. I heard later that they were dealing drugs out of that apartment.
The janitor during the next summer gathered a big bunch of garden snakes to dump into that basement to deal with the rats. The rats were eating the snakes and the neighbor called about the snakes.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
"I have seen and smelled what rats could do to a living human being. We found a sick derelict in the basement of a building on Washington Boulevard in the Old 15th District during the severe snows of 1978-79."
10/23/2015 08:49:00 PM
So you're saying that a bunch of chanting, obese, purple-lipsticked "community activists" with ball caps and T-shirts and bullhorns were nowhere in sight when help was needed, huh?
I figured that.
"We serve and protect" and then go home and undress in the garage and trash-bag our clothes sometimes...
...and make a little side-motion for the bottle a sour mash on the way to the shower.
God bless and stay safe.
10/24/2015 03:26:00 PM
Maaannnn...
Whooo! Those memories!
The neighbors looking at us cross-eyed when we lived in
a condo... The ex handing us a garbage bag and the Lysol
as we stripped to our skivvies in the hallway at 8-something
in the morning...
>Buffy and Jody making titty-eyes at you as they floated
by to their safe and clean jobs of driving a desk for eight hours<
Yeah...
Being The Police looks easy.
Come sign up motherfuckers before you shit-talk.
Pay no mind to them dead peoples and folks y'all might be
seeing in y'all sleep after 25 or 30 years of "easy."
"Policing is safer than it's ever been so shut up you Cops!"
Based on whose metrics and whose definition of "safer?"
People wonder why The Police (especially you old obsolete ghetto cops) are "twitchy," varying
degrees of anti-social and are alway longing to retire to a nice quiet, gun-friendly place
with no to few neighbors...
The shit you see.
The things you gotta do.
Nothing is more important than going home
to your family and loved ones at the end of your tour.
Be safe.
Be mindful that there are joyful haters
who don't want you to be safe because
"That kind of thinking is selfish and hostile."
If they don't want you to be safe?
Be dangerous...
Policemen for the most part aren't stupid or naive.
They know what they're up against on these streets.
"They didn't look, they didn't call anyone, not the landlord, not the building janitor. We dragged a couple of those mopes down there to look at that guy and chewed them out. I heard later that they were dealing drugs out of that apartment.
"The janitor during the next summer gathered a big bunch of garden snakes to dump into that basement to deal with the rats. The rats were eating the snakes and the neighbor called about the snakes."
10/24/2015 11:55:00 PM
Rats part of household, screaming and awful smells part of everyday life. Snakes? Now those are worrisome.
Tell people stuff like this, they brain-lock, display their teeth at you, and just stare.
...including the story I just read from China, where a woman plucked the eyeballs out of a live six-year-old kid to sell them to organ-transplant bootleggers who wanted corneas.
They know in their gut that things like this are true, but the universe must, must necessarily be a well-ordered place where everything -- anything -- they see must be happening for a good reason -- "registered" and "authorized" by some Higher Authority.
This is a form of denial called "system justification beliefs." Search the web on that phrase. Fascinating.
This past weekend I was in Missouri. In Dent County there was a sign that read Coyote pelts wanted $80. So if you need some extra money, get a few coyote pelts and head for Missouri. Problem solved and profit reached. LOL
I like Mr. Rahm.
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