The up-to-$170,000 position will go to a staffer who passionately “hates rats” and wants to wipe out the filthy, sometimes-“traumatizing” garbage munchers as the city’s rodent population soars, Ada…
should not be running across our yards, should not be biting our children,” Adams added. “It’s a sanitary problem, a health problem, it is also traumatizing.”He made the announcement at the city’s “Rat Academy” in the Bronx, which offers a free three-hour training course to anyone who wants to learn how to “manage” the filthy vermin.
“The later you put your garbage out, the closet to that sanitation pickup time, the less opportunity those rats have to infest the bags,” Caroline Bragdon, Department of Health director of Neighborhood Intervention and Pest Control, told the class of roughly 80. Bragdon replied that the Department of Sanitation has quality “rat-resistant cans” and that rinsing sidewalks with bleach helps eliminate rat urine, which attracts more of the rodents.
Hizzoner — who famously loathes rats and never misses a chance to vent about them — has said pandemic-fueled outdoor dining may have worsened the city’s rat infestation problem.
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