Rats infest Occupy DC, but we knew that
According to the Washington Post in a link sent to us by Old Trooper, there’s been an infestation of rodents – how they can tell, I don’t know;
Akhter said in an interview Monday that city health inspectors have seen rats running openly through both camps and spotted numerous new burrows and nests underneath hay-stuffed pallets occupiers are using for beds. Both campsites had working kitchens for weeks until last week, but protesters at McPherson Square voluntarily closed down theirs after health inspectors pointed out unsanitary conditions during an informal monitoring visit.
I’m sure the rats are part of the 1% and trying to mak the protesters look bad…er…worse.
“I’m very supportive of their rights and ability to demonstrate but I have concerns about their personal safety,” Akhter said.
Isn’t that just like the nanny government to be more concerned about the filthy hippies and their new furry scavenging membership than they are about the Occupy filth’s rights to live in the squalor that they’ve created as an expression of their liberty?
What’s more important here, public health and safety or the hippies right to continue being pests without a point. I mean the whole point of the Occupy movement is to make us feel sorry for them, a rodent infestation just better serves that goal, right?
January 10th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
RACIST!
January 10th, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Is that what passes as a put down on OWS? Three guesses where the rats came from (the first two don’t count). They came from the buildings and sewers of Washington that surround the protest! Some of the rats probably came from offices and apartments where conservatives live and work. Filthy, stinking conservatives….
January 10th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Dang Jonn… Joe has weighed in. Retract your racist tirade.
January 10th, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Yeah, Joe, if you think that there are conservatives living in downtown DC, you’ve never been there.
January 10th, 2012 at 5:43 pm
“Going down to these camps, it’s no different than refugee camps.” Except that they aren’t refugees, well, at least not until their parents figure out that the basement can actually be used for something other than housing their unemployed man child.
January 10th, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Does ratism exist?
January 10th, 2012 at 5:45 pm
Don’t buy this story for a moment. There’s no way any rat would besmirch their reputation by associating with a bunch of government teat sucking anarcho-syndicalist communist parasites. Even rats have standards.
January 10th, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Gosh – rats? I don’t know what to think. Has PETA weighed in on this yet?
January 10th, 2012 at 6:01 pm
I guess my cat has been ‘ratist’ for a while then.
January 10th, 2012 at 6:02 pm
OWB #6: Does ratism exist?
Rats are equal citizens of Planet Earth. They, at least, are equal to other vermin… and deserve equal protections.
Whacking the the little furry critter is a no-no.
January 10th, 2012 at 6:04 pm
By the way, Zero, who in this crowd of the Occupy DCers would I be racist towards?
January 10th, 2012 at 6:21 pm
Jonn doesn’t understand the concept, it seems.
January 10th, 2012 at 6:33 pm
Rats carry fleas. The black death was spread by fleas. This should end quickly.
January 10th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Redacted1775 #13: There it is!
January 10th, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Rats are very similar to cockroaches; they are as clean as their environment allows them to be.
Uh oh…
January 10th, 2012 at 6:44 pm
Even the fleas have standards, they’d prefer to stay with the rats, not with the Occutards.
I wonder what Joey’s response would be if these Occutards lived next to him, with the resultant infestation of vermin? The Health Department would be getting phone calls every 5 minutes until the filthy hippies were gone.
January 10th, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Of course, the hippies could very well be carrying fleas with a much worse disease, thus putting the rats in danger.
January 10th, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Which, Redacted? The new strain of drug-resistant TB the Occutards seem to have hatched, or just the usual kinds of STD’s?
January 10th, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Yeah.
January 10th, 2012 at 7:08 pm
You need to keep in mind that rats share our ecosystem and deserve the all of the protections we enjoy.
They are no better or worse than us. Some here seem to have missed a lesson?
January 10th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Yeah, you ratist racists!
January 10th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Are you sure you’re not a anti-Rodentite.
January 10th, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Funny who, or what, shows up when there’s free food. 2 legged and 4 legged type rats.
January 10th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
See here’s what makes me laugh. Joe comes on here to say “of course there are Rats, the rats come from the city anyway” which is all well and good, except that Rats tend not to like being outside too much in the winter. If they’ve decided to move in there has to be a PRETTY good reason.
January 10th, 2012 at 8:45 pm
Which came first: the filthy hippies or the filthy rats?
I was down the block from the DC OWS site on Christmas Eve, headed to the ballet. Yes, the ballet, you uncultured heathens. I didn’t get close enough to see any rats, although I did see a fine fat rat scampering around Farragut Station the night before.
I walked through the NYC OWS site back in early November and although I didn’t see any rats, the place was a greasy stinking slum. Smelled like jail: body odor, stinky feet, crap and piss.
These OWS sites are filth soaked cesspools, breeding grounds for vermin and disease. They will continue to attract rats, commies, socialists, fascists, truthers, dopers, slackers, and other vile critters until someone breaks out a fire hose and gets to work.
January 10th, 2012 at 8:49 pm
Heh….
I’ll bet that Templeton would feel right at home at any OWS flop site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAUEOlSpVN4
Just change “Fair” to “Occupy site” and you’re there!
January 10th, 2012 at 9:07 pm
I see Joe hasn’t ripped out his electric meter yet.
January 10th, 2012 at 9:42 pm
@ #27 – There isn’t any *instant* gratification in it for Joe….
January 11th, 2012 at 8:45 am
Wherever the two legged rats congregate long enough, the 4-legged rats are sure to follow.
January 11th, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Surprise, surprise. the Washington Post is putting out news stories to make the Occupiers look bad. Stop for a moment and ask yourself “Who owns the Washington Post?”
As far as Occupiers being all deadbeat white kids, watch this documentary. http://www.occupymovie.com
January 11th, 2012 at 8:30 pm
“Watch this documentary” cherry-picked and carefully edited to make Occupy whatever look like something other than a bunch of overprivileged deadbeat white kids.
Which the majority are.
Way to “smash” that stereotype
January 11th, 2012 at 8:35 pm
This is the true face of the occupy movement, and there isn’t anything anyone can do about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSo-MEiMbac
Take you medicine son.
January 11th, 2012 at 8:38 pm
@30: actually very Liberal people. This story is more a bow to reality than a “hit job”