Comments on: I Smell a Rat — Officials To Review Rat-Infested KFC Inspection

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:39:32 +0000

#7, Geeze, did you have to make it so personal. Hey, I washed my hands last week.

By: Steve S

Steve S — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:52:42 +0000

#7
“Ever picked your nose, scratched yourself, wanked, etc. — then handled your PC mouse?”
Well you just described my morning routine. Are you a psychic or do you have a web cam pointed at my computer chair?

By: GrabThis

GrabThis — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:49:58 +0000

REALLY dirty things:

1. Shopping Cart Handle
2. Door Knobs / Light Switches
3. Computer Mice / Keyboards
4. Hand Straps on Buses
5. Bathroom Stall Door Knobs / Toilet Flusher
6. Elevator Buttons
7. Steering Wheels
8. Gas Pump Handles
9. Remote Controls

Touched any of those recently? Ever picked your nose, scratched yourself, wanked, etc. — then handled your PC mouse? So have your friends/family/roomies…

Think about it, and you’re concerned about rats? It’s probably due to the age-old fear of bubonic plague. Get over it. Wash your hands.

By: donald

donald — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:46:59 +0000

Mice will not live in an area where rats live – they do not get along very well.
If there was evidence of mouse droppings in the previous years inspection, then there were surely no rats there then.

And yes, the rats in the video behaved just like domesticated rats . . .. . I used to have them as pets a few years ago. Very clean animals in fact

By: dusan maletic

dusan maletic — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:39:42 +0000

Original poster should have examined the available facts first… Couple of different NYC TV stations have posted official health records of this store for past 4 years. These show increasing levels of various infestations. It started with insects, excalated to mice and in the last two inspections (about year back) they first have had “evidence of rats or dead rats” and than “rats and rat droppings” last November…
I think the inspector is covering his own backside as one of the questions abovementioned TV reporters asked the health department is “why the restoraunt have not been forced to solve reported problems for years…”.

By: GaryInMiami

GaryInMiami — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:20:40 +0000

Those are not rats, those are chihuahuas.

If that’s what they are then maybe it was really a Taco Bell in which case there’s no story here. Move along please. LOL

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:39:24 +0000

Those are not rats, those are chihuahuas.

By: Timbo

Timbo — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:33:00 +0000

The restaurants in Florida are DEAD right now, after potential customers were besieged with videos of rats in a small restaurant in New York. People tend to generalize.

The government may want to step in and prejudge the issue as sabotage just to save the restaurants from bankruptcy. Yes, the economy is that fragile.

But it does actually look like sabotage, since the rats were domesticated enough not to hide in daylight.

By: malren

malren — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:26:28 +0000

You know, this makes sense. I have raised many a domestic rat, and these rats in the video were many things.

1. Fed and full. Some to the point of being obese.
2. Berks. White bellies, ticked agouti backs…that’s not exactly common among NYC sewer rats.
3. Acting like they were entirely comfortable running around during daylight and around people. Wild rats, even city rats, are nocturnal and do not act comfortable around people.

They very well may have been a domestic colony dumped to extort the place.