According to health department records and apparently unsatisfied customers, up until very recently the Trump Taj Mahal casino and hotel in Atlantic City was crawling with mice, roaches, and bed bugs.
Earlier this month, Condé Nast commenced its long-anticipated move to 1 World Trade Center, whose landlord is counting on the magazine publisher to anchor the building and attract other hip companies to the fortified Financial District. The ongoing rodent problem at Vogue, however, might give some prospective…
It's not even Wednesday and the surprises keep coming: New York City rats, when tested by pathogen hunters at Columbia University, were discovered to be replete with dozens of disgusting pathogens, some of which were new to science entirely.
Nature: stirring, majestic, full of shit that can kill you.
Here is a fact about New York City: it is filled with jerks. Here's another fact about New York City: it is filled with rats. Here's a third fact, recently discovered by scientists: rats are actually super nice, possibly (probably) even nicer than New Yorkers.
Death to porcupines! Those cactus-rodent hybrids have tyrannized man since the dawn of time. But one state has finally mustered the courage to stand up to them: Pennsylvania, we salute thee.
In a glorious culmination of 15 years research, federal scientists bombed the island of Guam with drugged mice sporting cardboard wings and radios. The target: deadly, terrifying snakes, which arrived, in part, via airplane.
A city program to introduce possums to Brooklyn as rat killers has apparently backfired and now, according to the Post, "some Brooklynites have become terrified to go into their yards at night." Tornadoes, Madonna, and now rabies? Brooklyn is cursed.
Do you have a penchant for high-alcohol-content (55%, y'all) beer and taxidermy, and also have $760 to blow? If so, then this new beer product packaged inside dead rodents by Scottish company BrewDog is for you. Video and more, inside.
That "rat" that scurried in front of Obama was actually a vole.
A rat ran across the stage as Obama spoke about the financial reform bill that was just passed by congress. The rat has signed a two-book, five-figure deal with Farrar, Straus and Giroux to write about its time with Obama.
Household pests- they can ruin your appetite any time you think of them, let alone see one. We don't know how this Ohio woman will ever eat again.
If you've been wondering which Manhattan neighborhood has the most/least roaches, mice, and rats—and who hasn't, really?—you're in luck. Thanks to the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, all that data can now be viewed online. [Brick Underground]
While America was celebrating hope and inclusion and being awesome, British media and academia were conspiring to blame our black squirrels for stealing the lovers and food of delicate native reds. RACIST.
"Raccoons go for $3 to $7 — each, not per pound — and will feed about five adults. Four, if they’re really hungry." Oh, great, now it's a trend.
The Brits suddenly love squirrel! And so will we, probably: the critters run $3 each, and the Times concedes they seem perfect for a recession.
"What if it goes into your stuffed toy and you bring it home?" [Daily News]
In solidarity with striking T.V. writers, huge 20-pound rats have been spotted in creeks and marshes in New Jersey. Sort of. They're actually nutria, not rats, but they're giant, furry rodents who are apparently very damaging to fragile natural ecosystems like those of the Garden State.
