Ratastic News week “Roman Holiday and The Rat Invasion That Never (May Have) Been” Edition


Ratastic News week, October 14th, 2019 “Roman Holiday and The Rat Invasion That Never (May Have) Been” Edition
Arrived in San Diego, preparing for PestWorld2019
Last week’s quiz question: We know they can be pests but how do squirrels help the environment?
Answer: They have accidently contributed countless trees to our nations forests by forgetting about nuts and acorns they buried.
This week’s quiz question: How many species of rodents are there?
Rat Control Demand Triples in Rome as City Grapples with Waste Management Problems
Ah Rome! The Coliseum! The Vatican! Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel! Visions of Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn tooling through the streets on a Vespa! Cobbled streets and the very air of romance and piles and piles of trash—wait! What?? Rome has been sacked and survived assaults from the Gauls to the Goths but it may be trash, the resulting rats and trash rooting wild boars that defeat it! Rome is struggling under the weight of a lot of trash. Believe it or not, Rome has only one waste processing facility, whose conveyor belts are also struggling under the weight of too much trash. A belt broke down earlier this month, according to The Guardian, from being overloaded. Pest control is good, but we know you’re asking the same question that is on our minds—wouldn’t building another waste facility be a good idea to stop the problem of trash piling up waiting for collection on city streets and relieve the burden on the other facility? It’s gotten so bad that Roman citizens are revolting—by creating a Facebook Page called “Rome is Disgusting” and taking Rome’s mayor to task for the issue. According to the Financial Times, even a visit by Vladimir Putin was welcomed because the city attempted to clean up the trash before the visit. The Financial Times explains that corruption is entering the fray: “The city’s refuse has always been in the hands of a small group of private interests,
The Rat Invasion That May (Not) Have Been
from years ago. He also disputed that the fired employee was a manager as claimed in the social media post.
However, he did acknowledge that the video shows rats in the shop, just that it hasn’t happened for years and that he pays a pest service to keep the place free of rodents.” Here’s where intrigue enters: The owner says he’s the victim of a disgruntled employee and the video was revenge for firing said employee. Washington Post reached out to the original poster (who claimed to be a former manager), but the original poster did not respond. The Washington Post reports that health inspectors did not find any rat droppings, and mostly dinged the place for minor violations. ““There were no indications of rat droppings or anything inside the establishment,” said Alison Reeves, a spokeswoman for the health department. Still, inspectors shut down Dupont Pizza for, according to the report, “no hot water and operating a food establishment with circumstances
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