New York City appoints first-ever 'rat czar'

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Kathy has the knowledge, drive, experience, and energy to send rats packing

Two Men Rats and a Truck

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“and what is it you do, dear?”
“oh, i am the Rat Czar™.”
“quite…” [walks away]

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With no disrespect meant to Ms. Corradi (congrats on the new gig!), I just assumed that “rat czar” was an honorary title given to Rudy Giuliani in perpetuity.

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Well, damn! They didn’t even have the courtesy to send me a rejection email!

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“Rat Czar” would make a good alternate title of nobility for the antagonist in The Nutcracker.

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Does this job post also include controlling the GOP in NYC?

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no, that’s Staten Island.

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Tax the rat farms.

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I’d have to dig up the book to get the details right, but in the 60s my dad was hired to shoot rats with a pellet air rifle at a dump near Staton Island. Lucky he didn’t get the plague or something!

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Tangential but I find these videos educational and wonderfully entertaining.

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The province of Alberta has “The Rat Patrol”, and they keep Alberta pretty much rat free. An entire huge province. Which admittedly has a climate that is not friendly to rats, but they keep them out of the citiess and town. People aren’t even allowed to keep pet rats, or bring them into the provinc.

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Interview question: Can you pipe?

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Hmm, Mouse Czar sounds better. If it were dogs, would it be Bow Wow Czar, or just Bow Czar? :thinking:

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I prefer “rats tsar”.

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Invaluable.

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They’re not a real rat?

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Hopefully NYC remembers to pay their Rat Czar. You’d hate to have a Pied Piper situation on your hands.

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Years ago I lived in Auckland NZ, a city with both east and west-coast ports. A group in the city was agitating for cat registration, similar to dog registration. A biologist friend just laughed when she heard this. “Ever since the Black Plague, no port city in the world is going to try to regulate its cat population.”

I assume NYC and the Burroughs don’t register cats?

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I’m lucky enough to own an autographed copy of Rat Catching by Crispin Hellion Glover (yes, that guy).

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