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How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com)
Some of the United States' biggest cities have resorted to using dry ice to kill rats. Since dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) turns into a gas, sanitation officials simply need to drop chunks of it into rat infested burrows and let science do the rest. Longtime Slashdot reader mi writes: USA Today reports: "Earlier this week, USA TODAY observed Chicago sanitation department workers at one of the city's oldest parks scoop chunks of smoking dry ice into a burrow before quickly covering the entry and exit holes with dirt and newspaper to stop any rats from escaping as the -109.3-degree Fahrenheit gas dissipated. Sanitation workers say they treat burrows during morning hours, when rats are less active and most likely to be huddled inside the burrows. The asphyxiated dead rats then decompose in place and out-of-sight of city denizens who count the disease-carrying vermin among the vilest of indignities of urban living. 'We are seeing 60% fewer burrows in areas where we are using the dry ice,' said Charles Williams, Chicago's streets and sanitation commissioner. 'It's more environmentally friendly, and it's very humane on the rodents as well.'" Humane or not, what is so especially "undignified" about rats? What makes them worse, than, for example, cats, deer or wild horses?
Well they tried C4 and the neighbors bitched about the noise. you just can't make anyone happy these days.
It's Chicago. How much more damage can some C4 do?
It's like a tornado sweeping through and doing $10 million of improvements.
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They carry disease, eat infrastructure, chew holes in your house, shit and pee on your stuff, chew holes in your stuff, eat and contaminate your food, and many more things I can't fit into the margin of this book.
Yes, children are unpleasant little monsters, aren't they?
"Oh no... he found the
When I was a kid, I used to help my grandfather try to control moles around his cattle. Cattle, horses, etc. would step into the entrance to the mole's burrow and break a leg.
Were you able to help all those moles with their tiny broken legs?
I'm with you, don't give two shits about rats. Good riddance.
Anyone who wants to defend the rats, then surely must feel the same about roaches, so lets just fill their houses with roaches and rats and we'll call it the roach and rat reserve.
What if there's fifty bugs? What if there's a hundred bugs and a dozen mice? Someone is keeping your apartment free of bullshit parasitic creatures that spread disease and filth. It's not you, apparently, but someone is doing the fucking job out of your sight.
And, it's probably a cat. Which directly answers one of the questions posed in the summary.
Obviously, you've never used a MacBook in defense of your home planet.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
"Just drop a python under the house and it's taken care of."
Good fix for a lot of things.
Roommate takes your snacks? Python in the cupboard.
Girl Scouts selling cookies door-to-door? Python on the porch.
Phone solicitors? Python on the ph...no, that did not work.
Too many curlies in your code? Python on the computer.
Yeah the little shits will hit you with a frying pan first chance they get