Rat tales abound in NYC after Superstorm Sandy

dereksbicycles said:
Cats are going to laugh at people who call mice vole. I can see cat speak----"Voles. Mice. Whatever. Let me bring some gifts to you".
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:lol:

dereksbicycles said:
Cats are going to laugh at people who call mice vole. I can see cat speak----"Voles. Mice. Whatever. Let me bring some gifts to you".
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Thank you, but I'll pass. I have enough spiders in the house as it is. And my cats are totally useless when it comes to those. :)
 
AlleyCat said:
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Thank you, but I'll pass. I have enough spiders in the house as it is. And my cats are totally useless when it comes to those. :)
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LOL! i know the feeling. My cats let spiders free. Their face when they saw spiders walking. :roll:
 
Animals have a pretty keen sense of weather, so maybe all the rats who knew a thing or two ran to higher ground. The others...

I find it to be a little ridiculous and naive that people thought that rats would be washed out in waves by the storm surge.

That's like thinking you can out-swim a tsunami.
Swimming is one thing, but no one considers that the wave is moving faster than most people can run (never mind swim!) and is loaded with plenty of sharp debree that will knock you over before you even have a chance to think about swimming.


Also I don't know if the sewers or the subway are really a place a rat would want to be. There would be water and possibly even temperatures, but not that many dry places to nest, low number of food sources (rats also love to eat insects / dog food), frequent water surges... it doesn't seem all that ideal a place for a rat to live to me.

I think if I was a rat I'd want to live only a few yards away from a ripe dumpster, and only a few feet under the ground.
 
shimo said:
Animals have a pretty keen sense of weather, so maybe all the rats who knew a thing or two ran to higher ground. The others...

I find it to be a little ridiculous and naive that people thought that rats would be washed out in waves by the storm surge.

That's like thinking you can out-swim a tsunami.
Swimming is one thing, but no one considers that the wave is moving faster than most people can run (never mind swim!) and is loaded with plenty of sharp debree that will knock you over before you even have a chance to think about swimming.


Also I don't know if the sewers or the subway are really a place a rat would want to be. There would be water and possibly even temperatures, but not that many dry places to nest, low number of food sources (rats also love to eat insects / dog food), frequent water surges... it doesn't seem all that ideal a place for a rat to live to me.

I think if I was a rat I'd want to live only a few yards away from a ripe dumpster, and only a few feet under the ground.
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ripe dumpster. water. temperature. sounds like NYC subway! :lol:
 
Jiro said:
ripe dumpster. water. temperature. sounds like NYC subway! :lol:
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NYC subways smell awful (it mostly smells like piss to me) but in terms of wasted food, there isn't all that much because people tend not to eat on the subway.

Not to mention the subway is extremely loud.
Rats are supposed to have very sensitive hearing... hmm.

I have never seen a rat in the subway.
But I do only take it about once a week.
 
shimo said:
NYC subways smell awful (it mostly smells like piss to me) but in terms of wasted food, there isn't all that much because people tend not to eat on the subway.

Not to mention the subway is extremely loud.
Rats are supposed to have very sensitive hearing... hmm.

I have never seen a rat in the subway.
But I do only take it about once a week.
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I see rats all the time in subways. and there are tons of foods in subway.
 
Foxrac said:
Is it allowed to eat food and drink in NYC subway?
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yes. I do it all the time.

I don't know where you get the impression that it's not allowed.
 
Jiro said:
yes. I do it all the time.

I don't know where you get the impression that it's not allowed.
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It isn't allowed to eat food and drink at DC subway and LA subway.
 
TXgolfer said:
It's not allowed, but people do it anyway. Same with Atlanta, Chicago and SF.
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Oh wow, I went out with one Gally student and he took milkshake down to subway platform, so waited for subway to come but MTA worker asked him to throw milkshake away and point at rule sign, so he drank whole it so fast before got in subway.

I did drank water bottle in subway because of heatwave, but lucky, I didn't get caught.
 
the NJ PATH system doesn't allow open food or drink either, but you can board with a closed container with food/drink.


Didn't know NYC subways were so loaded with leftover food.
I hardly ever see anyone eating in the subways, and I just assumed it was because the subways are so dirty that it ruined people's appetites. Hahaha
 
shimo said:
the NJ PATH system doesn't allow open food or drink either, but you can board with a closed container with food/drink.


Didn't know NYC subways were so loaded with leftover food.
I hardly ever see anyone eating in the subways, and I just assumed it was because the subways are so dirty that it ruined people's appetites. Hahaha
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just watch me eat then :)
 
Jiro said:
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that would be very messy. mostly $1 pizza.
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You get a big slice of pizza at Sam's Club for $1 that processed with GMO and chemical from greedy food industries. :lol:
 
Foxrac said:
You get a big slice of pizza at Sam's Club for $1 that processed with GMO and chemical from greedy food industries. :lol:
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fortunately - we don't have Sam's Club in here.
 
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