Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Rat Problem Grows

Remember when democrats decided the death penalty was a bad thing? They drilled that down into how urban centers stave off disease by granting "rights" to rats:
  • “Don’t feed the rats,” cries the city’s newest attempt to combat rat complaints as numbers have risen and the old method for extermination has been halted.

    Previously, the city of Chicago was using dry ice as a means to exterminate a large number of rats at a single time, but that method has been put on indefinite hiatus, according to DNAinfo. The hiatus is a result of federal rules as the method was not approved by the federal Environmental Protection Agency as a way to safely control the rat population, Streets and Sanitation spokeswoman Sara McGann told DNAinfo.

    As a result of the hiatus, the city is using a new plan to try to get the number of complaints down seeing as they have increased by 30 percent since this time last year. Part of the new approach includes a new poster design depicting a more realistic image of a rat than previous posters had.
We're surprised the Green Party didn't complain that dry-ice was releasing harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

You know what was even more effective that dry-ice though? Poison. Lots of it. Very effective and reasonably cheap, Daley drove the rat population to depths not seen in a century. If you saw a rat and called the Ward office, they baited the alley before the end of the week.
  • Chicago has tried just about everything to control a burgeoning rat population fueled by a construction boom and a mild winter. None of it has worked in a city seemingly overrun by the rodents.

    Now, City Hall is trying something old and something new: A poison designed to make rats infertile, and dry-ice that produced promising results in parks and medians before the city was forced to stop the rat-suffocation experiment after learning the dry ice had not been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

    The poison is called Contrapest. It will be tested for six months at a waste transfer station at 34th and Lawndale, where 25 bait boxes will be installed, each equipped with feeding tubes that encourage rats to take poisonous bait.

    If it works as advertised — by rendering rats infertile unable to breed — the poison could become a “regular method used in other enclosed and contained areas” that serve as breeding grounds for rats.
Next up - fitting rats with tiny condoms and IUD's. It's the only humane way.

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106 Comments:

Blogger RICH said...

Wayfarin it's cheap and it works people use it for blood clot prevention but the have used it for rat control for athe least 50 years.

7/26/2017 12:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Which rats are you talking about. Some of them are extremely big rats.

7/26/2017 12:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have a three flat in the ghetto and I keep telling the tenants " put food scraps in sealed garbage bags". Of course the garbage cans are filled with chicken bones, grease and all types of meat scraps spilling out of the garbage, a feast for flies, maggots, mice and the biggest rats I've ever seen.

7/26/2017 12:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well.....if the ghetto knuckleheads would choose to respect the feral cats in their areas, instead of using them to train their pit bulls/surrogate balls, the cats would be feasting.......but......Noooooooooo.......that would take some big brains on Brad to figure out........

Feral cats.....the only pussies you can rely on to not break your balls.....every damn chance they get........

7/26/2017 12:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about using an exterminator who knows what they're doing? Oh wait...never mind!!

7/26/2017 12:26:00 AM  
Blogger I Fart In Your General Direction said...

"If it works as advertised — by rendering rats infertile unable to breed — the poison could become a “regular method used in other enclosed and contained areas” that serve as breeding grounds for rats."


If it works as advertised, can we try this on the two legged rats that overpopulate almost every neighborhood of this city and rely on the 'Gibs' as their only source of sustenance?

7/26/2017 12:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

King Rat Daley: see black rats, call City Hall,
bait the alley, rats gone, Daley is a hero and
reelected. Not exactly rocket science. Loved
in the neighborhoods because the residents
saw results.
(Rahm, we don't see no results. You listening?)

7/26/2017 12:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The EPA hadn't approved dry ice?
Did the federal dip-shits DISapprove it? Make it illegal?
Seems to me that it is an almost perfect rat killer.
No nasty chemicals, no poison residues, nothing that might kill the scavengers, nothing to poison the water or soil.

7/26/2017 12:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What happened to using flouride to kill the rats?

7/26/2017 12:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And that, in a nut shell, is why our country is falling apart. Want to kill rats.....1.00 a head. Between 10 Year old boys with bb guns and piss bums a couple bucks shy of their half dog we would have a rat deficit in no time.

7/26/2017 12:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry...

We think the sure-fire ghetto rat killer
is that big-assed snap trap that can lop
a finger if you aren't careful.

tear off a piece of cotton ball, wind it
around the toggle and work just a little
bit of peanut butter into the cotton...

...Tug on that and think ya gonna get away
ya nasty little critter.

>POW!<


7/26/2017 12:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dry Ice? Looks like FIFRA might be the problem.
Have the geniuse in Chicago thought of asking the EPA to approve Dry Ice?
It works and is non toxic. No nasty poison to control, or contaminate the soil and water.
No Pesticide Company making millions either. That might be the problem! Insufficient GRAFT.

7/26/2017 12:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Its actually getting scary to read of the stupidity.

7/26/2017 12:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

scc, how do i post images of rats i trapped?

7/26/2017 01:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Six Month trial? Brings it to the heart of January. I bet they see fewer rats in January.

What are they going to do for August? September? October?

7/26/2017 01:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am a Scientist,I am raising Rats and from the time they are born they listen to Cher,Madona,Beth Milder and a little Justin Beber,I am Creating Gay Rats that have no interest in the opposite sex but spend hours decorating their den.

7/26/2017 01:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Learn to live with the Rat. Large populations of humans and large populations of rats can co-exist together. They would actually find it beneficial. Each can learn from the other.

7/26/2017 01:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is a big Rat Problem in City Hall.
We need the feds to send in their specialists.

7/26/2017 01:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Now if only "Contrapest" comes in blue juice and Vitner's HOT Crunchy Kurls flavor we might be able to save some of the tax payers money and see the murder rate go down, in about 10 years.

7/26/2017 01:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A lot of pets were inadvertently poisoned during the Daley reign too. Rather have a rat in the alley than my dog dead from a horrible poisoning death.

7/26/2017 01:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I heard they where gonna catch and nuter/spay the release... thanks democrats

7/26/2017 01:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

IAD?

7/26/2017 02:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ideas:

- Dress them up in opposing gang colors, turn them loose... the Community will handle it.

- Offer a bounty on each dead rat. Watch the homeless go to town...

- Pass a law banning rats.

- Tax the rats.

7/26/2017 02:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If it works as advertised — by rendering rats infertile unable to breed — the poison could become a “regular method used in other enclosed and contained areas” that serve as breeding grounds for rats.

Mmmmmm... if we replace the word rats with urban ghetto shit birds...

7/26/2017 03:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

not a squeak out of PETA?

7/26/2017 03:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Infertile or dead? I prefer dead or like how that bug poison works, asshole bug dies back at the nest and gets eaten-- killing more bugs there after

7/26/2017 04:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If successful here, can it be applied to hot spots or vri boxes?

7/26/2017 04:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They never got to the 9.5 paw rat at city hall yet.... why is he hell bent on making parks and bike lanes... is it for more city red light cameras?

7/26/2017 04:58:00 AM  
Blogger David Salter said...

I have found cats useful in dealing with rats

7/26/2017 05:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rahm has sympathy for the Rats.They are related to each other...🐭🐭🐭

7/26/2017 06:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can we use this at City Hall on the Alderman?

7/26/2017 06:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Next they will start neutering all the rats

7/26/2017 06:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Careful, some of those rats may be pension bound. Several are already on the medical.

7/26/2017 06:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about offering abortions for rats?

7/26/2017 06:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Glue traps always work !!

7/26/2017 06:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is just scary. Those poisons are going to be released with their droppings and waste into the air we breath. How is this going to affect the health of those near those rats? It's like when humans take medications, you pee them out & it goes back into our drinking water, but the water is cleaned before going back into our faucets. The rat droppings are going to dry up and go into the air we breathe. Not good. How about getting a few stray cats instead? Just like nature intended.

7/26/2017 06:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think the city should set up "peace councils" with the community and the rats so they can discuss their differences. Why can't we live in peace together?
Two legged rats, four legged rats. We are all God's creatures

7/26/2017 06:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rofl, here in rednekistan (you know, the hinterlands and wilds sour of I80 we've been yelling that same phrase for years

7/26/2017 06:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And here everyone thought the rats were voted into, and appointed to, public office.
It is a fine example of what happens when you don't consistently stay on top of a problem. Damnocrats have eyes but they do not see and ears but they do not hear. When the idiots are overwhelmed by the shit they give sanctuary to, they might learn, but it will be too late.

J.J.

7/26/2017 06:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is there a contrapest for politicians, illegals, and the able bodied that recieve welfare?

7/26/2017 07:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can we give contrapest to gang members? Maybe it could be in the prison meal plan?

7/26/2017 07:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

watch PETA complain because (they'll call it) it is genocide of an entire species solely because of what they see

7/26/2017 07:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kind of ironic the rat problem in Chicago is growing

Mayor, aldermen

7/26/2017 07:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

funny you mention this SCC. I hear city hall and hq have some of the largest rats in the world. Some even speak of the well fed one that roams the 5th fl at 35th st.

7/26/2017 07:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"fitting rats with tiny condoms", "fitting rats with tiny condoms" .... are you kidding me :) ???

Duh, you can't reduce the self-esteem of Chicongoan Hood Ratz bye fitting them with teensie tiny wittle bitty condoms, they gotta be Huge XXL Stallion size condoms...

Am sure some Rahmista in a position to do something about this Insult will take care of this grave injustice & blow to the self esteem of our millions of Chicongo Ratz

"tiny condoms", my ass !!!

7/26/2017 07:50:00 AM  
Blogger Mr. SouthSide said...

I like dry ice. It's smokin' but it's cool.

7/26/2017 07:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Garbage pickers cut open the garbage bags and dump everything out

7/26/2017 08:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I blame willard

7/26/2017 08:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about all the 2 legged rats at city hall,county building (short trip across 5th floor) and at the statehouse? Then reading this story and seeing this headline where we will lose starting 01sep17 hundreds of millions in federal aid, the story says for police bulletproof vets and bodycams simply because rahm refuses to follow federal orders on removing the illegal invaders who are sucking the taxpayers dry!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-crackdown-sanctuary-cities-20170725-story.html

Most important part of the story:
The conditions apply to one of the Justice Department's most popular grant programs, which provides police money to buy everything from bulletproof vests to body cameras. And the requirements will apply to cities seeking grants starting in September.

So no more money for policing, hey rahm the billions your hiding, the billions your giving to buy the votes of the u illegal criminals, the carnage citywide all the blood all the mayhem,all the chaos yes right on your doorstep. Of course you have willful actors the 50 the city clerk, the city treasurer and the durbins duckworths madigans and more, but your the CEO of this city and an absolute failure please resign!

How's that waste of space appointment of ginger Evans at the airports doing? Over $300,000 salary and an extra $100,000 "bonus" guess 300K is not enough for her right rahm? Even the aldergoofs see her inability to manage like hat she did with DOA police they the aldergoofs don;t wnat them demoted, then ginger hires in an obvious friend and pays this guy no qualifications for that spot over $55,000 extra over the last guy $175,000 plus car and driver! But he is only there to let the "friends and family" of corrurtioninc in to the security aspect to make hundreds of millions off of the taxpaying and flying public!

7/26/2017 09:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They sure could use a lot of dry ice at city hall.

7/26/2017 09:36:00 AM  
Blogger rosco said...

We need rat condoms...

7/26/2017 09:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What about the rats in the City Council? Have they found away to illuminate them? JAIL?

7/26/2017 09:43:00 AM  
Blogger stash the polski guy said...

waiting for the first jackass city worker to sue the city for infertility. it will happen.

7/26/2017 09:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

if it makes them infertile then I could think of a few people (or folks) in this city that should be given this product

7/26/2017 09:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rahm has sympathy for the Rats.They are related to each other...🐭🐭🐭

7/26/2017 06:05:00 AM


It can now be revealed. Rahm is THE MOTHER OF RATS.

7/26/2017 09:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jason Brown has really become a problem I see?

7/26/2017 10:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Prickwrinkle needs to levy a tax on those rats. If history is any prelude to a predictable outcome, those rats will leave in droves just like the everyone else.

7/26/2017 10:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

do the new posters have rahms picture on it?

7/26/2017 10:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

East of Cicero between Kostner and Kolmar, and from 59 to 63rd street there's been a rat problem. A lot of the problem is the train tracks that run north and south and the new and people living in the area, not securing and putting their garbage away properly. When the ward was baiting it would lower the rat population some. What started in the early spring this year was amazing, two nesting Cooper Hawks, and one of the nests had four babies. I watched these Hawks all spring and up to the middle of July. What a treat, but the real benefit from these Raptors, they were killing rats. One day sitting in my yard, I observed the two mama Hawks flying over head carrying on four different occasions rats. The retired Homicide Det across the street from where I live said, he walked out to get the mail and one of the Hawks dove past him and grabbed a mouse. The babies are juvenile Hawks now with most of they're coloring and feathers. They play chase each other up and down Kolmar, it a sight to be seen. I shit you not, I have not seen a rat in a long time......

7/26/2017 10:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
scc, how do i post images of rats i trapped?

7/26/2017 01:08:00 AM

Aren't booking photos available online?

7/26/2017 11:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Trying to solve the rat problem is like trying to end corruption in Chicago, never happen.

7/26/2017 11:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

City of Chicago did a sewer project up in Edgebrook recently, took approximately six months start to finish. Each night or weekend they would cover the street with a metal sheet. You could see in the hole. Running sewer water from one broken old pipe to the new pipe, wide open. Now many people are complaining of rats in the neighborhood a few months later. I may not be a rocket scientist but I find this quite a coincidence. Again we were happy to have sewer improvements but six months to do three blocks? Now a rat infestation in the area? The city that works.

7/26/2017 11:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

City should call the program "Planned Parenthood for rats" and get the libs to finance it

7/26/2017 11:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do we have anything effective for the two legged?
Let's start with alder-scums Proco Joe Moron-no and Maldo-nada.
Those are the biggest rats feeding out of contactor$ and kick-back$
Can't wait to see both in Club Fed 🏝🏝🏝🏝

7/26/2017 12:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


With the "Plastic Bag Ban" or "Tax" there's less plastic bags for people or folks to pick up the dog crap which the rats feast on. It now costs 5 cents to pick up your dog shit in Shitcago. Less dog shit picked up = more food for rats. Add in cyclonic effects of feel good liberal dogma and, well, You get what We have here. Which is. The way they want it. I don't like it any more than You men...

7/26/2017 12:21:00 PM  
Blogger nous said...

Oop's..saw the headline and thought it was a story about the Chicago city council.

7/26/2017 12:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let those rats feast on Chipotle

7/26/2017 01:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sophisticated rats prefer Chipotle where they can dine on
queso, sip frozen margaritas, munch on salad with avocado
citrus dressing, and a crispy cinnamon dessert called a buñuelo.
The closest state is Colorado for this trial menu.

7/26/2017 01:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Poison them! Quit this pussified approach before it's too late. Not fond of Daley but he did have this issue under control .

7/26/2017 01:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The ghetto idiots kill the feral cats. A feral cat is a rat killing machine better than a great white shark in the ocean.

And, Charles Williams knows all about rats! He was a IAD rat for years.

7/26/2017 01:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rat Lives Matter

7/26/2017 02:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We have 50 rats that have infested city hall

7/26/2017 02:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Orkin Exterminators said...

We want a 99-year contract for our operations at City Hall and the County. We'll call it "Rodent Central". with entrances on both the LaSalle and CRook Co. sides of the building..

7/26/2017 02:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not to worry - the City is RICH! Rahm just found another $600K to open a new park! More free money!

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170726/west-town/new-public-park-next-kennedy-expressway-west-town-okd-by-city

7/26/2017 02:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170726/west-town/new-public-park-next-kennedy-expressway-west-town-okd-by-city

Of course, this means we have another park with CHILDREN TO SAVE and need speed cameras to keep the crazy drivers from running over children as they go to the park to play all day long (the tiny little park next to the freeway)

7/26/2017 02:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Trash collection fee is $8.50 and going up.
Yet the ghetto alley is still strew with rag pickers and rubbish.
The only way to combat any problem is to keep up the attack.
That applies to housekeeping and crooked politicians.
Rahm likes to sprinkle a little pixie dust on problems, the media reports it and everyone who reads it is satisfied.
Feral community thug rats are Rahm's problem - Not Ours.

7/26/2017 03:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just as the four legged rat problem is worse under Rahm so is the two legged rat problem under Rahm.
Rahm and his band of thieves are the two legged rats that inhabit City Hall.

7/26/2017 03:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lived here all my life and never saw as many rats on the street day or night, as I do now. Another example of misuse of tax dollars where it should be spent, but instead they waste money on stupid pet projects and bloated personnel in city offices. Soon you're gonna see the plague making a comeback.

7/26/2017 03:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Seen rats the size of small dogs in the alleys at 3am. Nice job cutting the rat control crews there ya little fuckin 9 didget midget.

7/26/2017 03:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

cool,get rid of the rats,and kill the rodents also

7/26/2017 05:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

is IAD hiring again???

7/26/2017 05:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Now hold on a minute, rats are people too, only problem is they all vote democratic.

7/26/2017 05:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

That is just scary. Those poisons are going to be released with their droppings and waste into the air we breath. How is this going to affect the health of those near those rats? It's like when humans take medications, you pee them out & it goes back into our drinking water, but the water is cleaned before going back into our faucets. The rat droppings are going to dry up and go into the air we breathe. Not good. How about getting a few stray cats instead? Just like nature intended.

7/26/2017 06:33:00 AM

WTF?

You have a critical mass of rat shit in/around
your living space?

7/26/2017 06:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Start with the DemocRATS in Office Now.

7/26/2017 06:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why not just put the sticker! "No Rats Allowed", just like the ones for "No Guns Allowed" this will solve everything.

7/26/2017 06:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I heard about the hawks in 8 from a friend, but I didn't think they were killing the rats. He told me he hasn't seen or heard a Robin most of the spring and summer. These type of hawks eat Robins and other small manuals. With the explosion of rats, nature brings in a hawk to take care of business. I only wish nature would take care of the mutts on the east end of 8.

7/26/2017 07:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My Ruger 10/22 never misses its Rat target.

7/26/2017 07:57:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

111th and Kenzie night and early morning hours rats openly running across the street.

7/26/2017 08:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Liberalism is a disease.

7/26/2017 09:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Ritz Carlton hotel had a hoard of rats that made it up to the 15 th. floor. Williams was called in and basically told them to get fucked and bait their own alley. Williams makes Little Tommy Byrne look like giant and Mother Theresa ! Williams has been the stooge of all stooges and always getting his share. The ghetto alder thieves love him cause he speak the ghetto slang. He, like the states attorney know all the rats are dark and should be free to spread their germs and parasites all over Crook county.
Off topic - Hey Toni-y, sell the forest preserves to developers, no one uses it but men strolling together in the back woods to bird watch !!

7/26/2017 10:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When you poison the rats, you both starve and poison the cats.

As some rats survive, the absence of cats results in the re-proliferation of the rats.

Also, the absence of cats attracts the rats from other territories.

Every farmer knows this.

Thus, a few simple actions can be taken, to ensure a healthy, rat killing feline presence.

1. During non-freezing weather, let the outdoor sillcock drip a bit into a bowl.

2. Regularly place meaty table scraps in a location both concealed from sight and somewhat distant from normal audible activities, to attract the cats AND the rodents, which will provide both subsistence food to the cats AND fresh meat, the rodents, as well.

3. Resist any impulse to try to turn a free roaming, rat killing, natural born predator into a couch cushion companion, no matter how "cute and cuddly" he/she appears.

4. Unlike the puppy dog, "leave him alone and he'll come home, wagging his tail behind him", the cat don't give a crap. "Leave me alone or I'll scratch you raw" is the cat motto. Ask any rat.....if you can find one still breathing.....

7/26/2017 11:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

AND - it looks like the dry ice will be back - Daily Caller reports that EPA has approved this use - Rahm0rat is quoted in it.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/26/epa-finally-allows-chicago-to-kill-rat-population-after-animal-rights-complaints/
John in Indy

7/26/2017 11:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the ward superintendents would do their job and write up all of the garbage cans without lids on them in my neighborhood and get them replaced, as well as picking up the blue cans more than once every 2 weeks, so they wouldn't overflow, the city could do their part. How about letting people put stuff in the blue cans BAGGED, so the shit doesn't fall all over the place as well??

Called for a new garbage can a few months ago-seemed to take forever- called 311. Pleasant enough lady told me the hang up was.......wait for it....The city ran out of garbage cans and they had them back-ordered. They ended up with at least a 90 day backlog. No one to blame but themselves...

7/27/2017 12:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Two coppers rolling through a west side alley
in the summer when a good sized rat mistimed
and jumped into the squad through an open front
window...

Driver?
Screaming/floored the accelerator.

Passenger?
Screaming/had his gun out and was
trying to kill the rat.

Rat?
Bulge-eyed with panic and running
all around inside the car looking
for a way out?

Fate intervened and there was (Thankfully?)
a crash before a bunch of holes were shot
all through Lord-Knows-Where in the car.

Damn right somebody's radio was keyed
and the whole Zone heard it...

...Not funny at all.
>Snicker!<

Aww... Who are we kiddin'?
It was hysterical.

"AAAIIIEEE! DON'T SHOOT!"
Was the more intelligible radio transmission.

Allegedly, one round was let go in the car.

Prima Facie evidence that shit CAN happen.

Zero to needing a uniform adjustment in
no time flat.

The poor driver took a lick on a preventable too.
Everybody was like "WTF?" on that finding.

Upside is that no Policemen were hurt.

All this happened way back in "Once Upon a Time In
Being The Police."

Moral?

Don't roll through narrow ghetto alleys at night
with your windows down.



7/27/2017 02:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bring in the cats

7/27/2017 07:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I read the post about those hawks in 8, I looked up the Cooper Hawk on Google and learned this may be short lived, for the hawks killing the rats on 813's beat. Come fall, these hawks migrate and the first to go are the juveniles and mama. Thus, no hawks, no city batting and we will have the rat problem back in spades.

A retired copper told me the regular rat traps will not work on an older rat. Those rats know how to take the bait off without even setting it off. He also said some even avoid them altogether. He's found success in using small animal traps used in trapping. For some reason city rats haven't figured those type of traps out. He puts the regular rat trap down with bat, and the path the rat would take to get at the batted one with the tapper trap. He said they usually set them off with their hind leg. Most of the time you find them alive in the trap, so he gets a plastic bucket full of water and drowns them. Told me he's killed at least 18 rats since the first of the year.

7/27/2017 10:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

7/26/2017 10:43:00 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
East of Cicero between Kostner and Kolmar, and from 59 to 63rd street there's been a rat problem. A lot of the problem is the train tracks that run north and south and the new and people living in the area, not securing and putting their garbage away properly. When the ward was baiting it would lower the rat population some. What started in the early spring this year was amazing, two nesting Cooper Hawks, and one of the nests had four babies. I watched these Hawks all spring and up to the middle of July. What a treat, but the real benefit from these Raptors, they were killing rats. One day sitting in my yard, I observed the two mama Hawks flying over head carrying on four different occasions rats. The retired Homicide Det across the street from where I live said, he walked out to get the mail and one of the Hawks dove past him and grabbed a mouse. The babies are juvenile Hawks now with most of they're coloring and feathers. They play chase each other up and down Kolmar, it a sight to be seen. I shit you not, I have not seen a rat in a long time......

The balance of nature is indeed a spectacle. Those Hawks soar at 500' and can see the slightest movement on the ground. One day I opened my front door and it looked like someone got shot on my front steps. Blood everywhere. Then I saw the fur and feathers. A hawk got a rabbit and as violent as it can be, it's just Nature's way.

7/27/2017 11:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You knew you were a hellified emergency vehicle operator
if you could pancake a rat as it ran across the
Harrison/Flournoy alley behind 011.

>Whoomp-WHAAAAAA!<
(Them secondaries on that 350 tho')

Bre'r Rat said...
"EEK!"

Bonus points of you could do it with a wagon...

5 pancakes and you were an "ace."

Written in the dirt on the back of the wagon:
"The Willy Lump-Lump Traveling Circus
& Freak-Show"

"Who Willy Lump-Lump an' shit?"

Good Times...
Ain't we lucky we had 'em?

7/27/2017 01:07:00 PM  
Blogger 30 pending and what said...

I thought you were talking about alderman.

7/27/2017 05:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hell,that aint nothing new,democrats been covering up little rat pricks in Chicago for years

7/27/2017 08:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Could we develop something similar to dispense at cocktail parties attended by city councilmen and legislators? Just think, in a couple of years we could pare their numbers down to something reasonable and curtail at least some of the corruption.

7/28/2017 02:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chicago also has a racoon problem. Raccoons are a major carrier of rabbis. Chicago at one time would trap them but doesn't have the money now.

7/28/2017 07:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

"Chicago also has a racoon problem. Raccoons are a major carrier of rabbis. Chicago at one time would trap them but doesn't have the money now."

7/28/2017 07:14:00 AM


File this under "too good to resist..."

Our whimsical self just don't see the friend of many and brother
in arms in G-d's Earthly Army, Rabbi Moshe Wolf, holding still for
any masked 4-legged critter carrying him away.

Just sayin'!
;^)

>Grin!<

7/28/2017 05:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Could we develop something similar to dispense at cocktail parties attended by city councilmen and legislators? Just think, in a couple of years we could pare their numbers down to something reasonable and curtail at least some of the corruption.

7/28/2017 02:47:00 AM

An aerosol that contains Skatol, Putrescene and Capsicum
that induces laughing and involuntary bowel movement?

Bright, multi-colored luminescent indelible dye too.

We'll know them as they stumble their brightly colored,
laughing, crying, stinking, shitting, puking selves
down the street.

"HA-HA-HA-WAAAHHH! I STINK!"
-COUGH!-BLAAARRRGH!-PFFFFT!-
"PLEASE HELP ME! OOHHH! MY UNDIES"

Some modicum of payback for the
myriad ways they've managed to
trouble and be an affliction to
upright and law abiding citizens.

7/28/2017 05:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Raccoons are carriers of rabbis? Even if the rabbis were smaller than Peter Dinklage, those must be some pretty sturdy raccoons.

All kidding aside, the rat population really needs to be suppressed. Rats are carriers of bubonic plague, which has been making a bit of a comeback in the last few years, with cases showing up in Colorado and New Mexico. Even with early treatment, the mortality rate is around 10% - IF people get treated instead of just trying to "tough it out." The early symptoms of bubonic plague are remarkably similar to the flu, until the first pustules appear.

The OTHER, bigger problem that isn't talked about much is that decades of passing out anti-biotics like candy has produced strains of disease that are resistant to treatment with anti-biotics.

7/28/2017 05:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was going to suggest a birth control hormone implant, nexplanon.

7/30/2017 02:17:00 AM  

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