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Not sure if your "feed the rats" comment was intended to be cruel, or just careless...

• cvs268 7y ago
  possibly a "no pun intended" moment.
• dantillberg 7y ago
  They likely are referring to feeding actual literal rats. Rats get into trash left out by the street for pickup.
  • justinc8687 7y ago
    That was my reading as well
  • bobthepanda 7y ago
    In fact, NYC stopped expansion of a composting program because rats were getting into the compost bins in buildings. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/07/ick-rats-roaches-rank-smells-dampen-nyc-composting-program https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/07/ick-rats-roa...
• fennecfoxen 7y ago
  New York City has the worst rat problem in the world. People referring to rats in NYC are generally referring to actual bona fide rats. Consider this coverage of rats from the same source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/nyregion/rat-infestation-nyc.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/nyregion/rat-infestation-... Or this lovely article by the Brooklyn borough president which opens with a story of a rat gnawing on an infant's face, in the slums of Brownsville. The child then grew up with a scar on his lip. (There's probably another policy failure there, too, with regards to public housing, as NYCHA is not good about extermination.) https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-our-war-on-rats-is-only-beginning-20190918-5cw72y4ka5gvdgxyqct4c6tmjq-story.html https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-our-war-on-rats-... Homeless people (a prime bottle-collecting group) are if anything more vulnerable to rats, as they are likely to be sleeping where they are exposed to said rats. And New York trash policy in much of Manhattan is your building leaves your trash (recyclables and otherwise) out on the sidewalk for pickup, where it is rodent-bait. This needs to change.