Speaker 1: He's night side with Dan Ray I WBSY cost In Radio.
Speaker 2: Fifteen to one, a good old fashioned pictures duel at
Speaker 2: George Stein browner Field. That's what really hurts. They're not
Speaker 2: playing at the Trop because the trop lost its roof
Speaker 2: in the big hurricane. Which one I forget. I think
Speaker 2: it was Milton, one of them down there last fall.
Speaker 2: Whoa fifteen to one? Well, the good news is they'll
Speaker 2: save their their run scoring for tomorrow night maybe, or
Speaker 2: tomorrow or Wednesday afternoon. Good welcome back, everybody. That's a
Speaker 2: Monday night. As a friend of mine calls it, moan day,
Speaker 2: the Red Sox fans will be moaning tonight. That is
Speaker 2: for sure, ugly ugly after a pretty good game yesterday.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed watching Garrett Crochet. I was in a gym
Speaker 2: yesterday afternoon watching that and he was dealing. He was dealing.
Speaker 2: I thought he was going to get the no no,
Speaker 2: but it didn't work out that way. Okay, we are
Speaker 2: going to talk about a couple of things tonight coming
Speaker 2: up at ten o'clock. My intention is to talk about
Speaker 2: three theoretically unrelated but I think related events. I'm going
Speaker 2: to talk about the bombing, the fire bombing of the
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania Governor's mansion, that is where Governor Shapiro, the governor
Speaker 2: of Pennsylvania lives. They actually have a governor's mansion, so
Speaker 2: it was the state property of the property of the
Speaker 2: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I might because they, like Us and
Speaker 2: Virginia Kentucky are the only four states of Comma Wealths.
Speaker 2: So some nutjob nutjob decided that he wanted to burn
Speaker 2: down and probably was an anti Semitic action. It happened
Speaker 2: on the first night of Passover. And by the way,
Speaker 2: this is a very holy week, both for Jewish friends
Speaker 2: and Christian friends. This is East Week for the Christian community,
Speaker 2: which will culminate with Easter next Sunday morning. And this
Speaker 2: of course is the This now is the third night
Speaker 2: of Passover. So for my Jewish listeners who may be
Speaker 2: listening and some are not, some are celebrating the meals
Speaker 2: of Passover with family and friends, and we understand that.
Speaker 2: But please, if you have friends who are Jewish during
Speaker 2: this week, wish them a happy season or happy Passover,
Speaker 2: and obviously the same towards Christian friends. As we approach
Speaker 2: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, and then Easter Sunday,
Speaker 2: So do you have that incident. And by the way,
Speaker 2: I saw a picture of this knucklehead and if he
Speaker 2: didn't look like he had about ten screws loose. There
Speaker 2: was some late video tonight that I saw. I saw
Speaker 2: he's already been arraigned in Pennsylvania. So then you have
Speaker 2: this seventeen year old we'll get into it later out
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin who kills his parents. See, his mom was
Speaker 2: only thirty five. Thirty five year old woman is his mother,
Speaker 2: and he kills her and his stepdad fifty one. And
Speaker 2: I guess he hangs in the house for a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks finding as much money or whatever else he
Speaker 2: can find. Unbelievable, what's going on in this world? And
Speaker 2: it was all his idea of a plot to assassinate
Speaker 2: President Trump. And then that against the backdrop of all
Speaker 2: of the violence against Tesla owners, Tesla dealerships. What's wrong
Speaker 2: with us? What's wrong with us as a country that
Speaker 2: we can have disagreements politically and we have to resort
Speaker 2: to this sort of violence. So we'll get to that
Speaker 2: at ten o'clock. I want to talk about a more
Speaker 2: mundane issue, and that is rats. No, I'm not talking
Speaker 2: about people who snitch or anything like that. I'm talking
Speaker 2: about rodents four legged kind. And I want to focus
Speaker 2: on Boston because a year ago Boston came up with
Speaker 2: what they called wrap Boston Rodent Action Plan. I wonder
Speaker 2: how much the city paid to come up to come
Speaker 2: up with that acronym, the Boston Rodent Action Plan, and
Speaker 2: this was You go to the website if you want.
Speaker 2: But with the first day that even came close to
Speaker 2: being a spring day today, it was great. It looked
Speaker 2: as if some of the trees were at least, you know,
Speaker 2: extending the possibility that they might bloom some of the trees.
Speaker 2: You know as well as I do, that once spring arrives,
Speaker 2: the rats are going to be out in force. Now
Speaker 2: they have been out in force all winter. You just
Speaker 2: didn't see them because it was getting dark at five
Speaker 2: o'clock at night for you know, several months during the winter,
Speaker 2: and they do that best work when it's dark. Well,
Speaker 2: I would love to know how is Boston doing with
Speaker 2: controlling our rat population. People have told me, hey, you're
Speaker 2: a city that lives on the harbor. You're a city
Speaker 2: that has wharfs, and therefore you'll never get rid of
Speaker 2: your rat population. But I got to tell you that
Speaker 2: is one animal that does freak me out. If I
Speaker 2: had a choice between seeing a bear or a rat
Speaker 2: in my backyard, I'd prefer to see the bear, particularly
Speaker 2: if it was a small bear. But rats as well
Speaker 2: as snakes, But we don't have to worry about snakes
Speaker 2: up here. If you live in Florida, you can talk
Speaker 2: about snakes. I'd like to hear from you. Do you
Speaker 2: feel that your neighborhood in Boston has been cleaned up?
Speaker 2: They have this again, this BRAP Boston Rodent Action Plan.
Speaker 2: You get it, b r A P is in Plan
Speaker 2: brap uh. It's a new initiative to combat the rodent
Speaker 2: population of the city of Boston. Well, at least it's
Speaker 2: there's an acknowledgment of that. We tried to reach the
Speaker 2: renowned urban rodentologist, doctor Bobby Corrigan today. He authored the
Speaker 2: report last summer. I don't know that I would want
Speaker 2: to be a renowned urban rodent knowlogist, rodent ologist, but
Speaker 2: again we would have loved to have had him on.
Speaker 2: We had him on before. So in the in the
Speaker 2: plan that they have the city agencies, the following city
Speaker 2: agency will combine resources and coordinate with other levels of government,
Speaker 2: property owners, and the general public. That's you to help
Speaker 2: reduce rodent infestation throughout the city. What are the groups?
Speaker 2: Inspectional Services, the Boston Housing Authority, Boston Water and Sewer,
Speaker 2: Boston Public Schools are Operation's Cabinet, whatever that is, Boston
Speaker 2: Public Health Commission, the Department of Public Works, Boston three
Speaker 2: to one one, Boston Parks and Recreation. Come on over,
Speaker 2: the rat Office of Neighborhood Services, and the Department of
Speaker 2: Innovation and Technology. How about that? Huh? The Boston Rodent Report.
Speaker 2: You can read the entire report at this website, which
Speaker 2: is Boston dot gov slash Department slash Inspectional hyphen Services
Speaker 2: Boston slash Boston hyphen rodent. I just put in Boston
Speaker 2: rat problem and it'll bring it here. The report highlights
Speaker 2: various causes and effects related to road and infestation. I
Speaker 2: don't need a report to know what's causing the road
Speaker 2: and infestation. People in Boston are people who do not
Speaker 2: keep their garbage in containers that are that are imperviable,
Speaker 2: unpermeable by rats. People who leave excuse me, who leave
Speaker 2: pizza boxes on the street who throw, you know, pizza
Speaker 2: crusts as they're walking down Newberry Street. Poor yeah, poor
Speaker 2: trash mitigation. But that means is we're slobs A lot
Speaker 2: of people in Boston or slobs storage and removal Boston
Speaker 2: Ever walked down any of the alleyways between commav and
Speaker 2: Newbury Street. Huh, Try that someday if you want to
Speaker 2: lose your lunch. Boston, being one of the oldest cities
Speaker 2: in the Northeast, has infrastructure that greatly influences the rodent population.
Speaker 2: The densely populated neighborhoods with intertwining alleyways and old sewer systems,
Speaker 2: along with century old cobble or brick streets and sidewalks,
Speaker 2: provide an environment for rodents to thrive. I have no
Speaker 2: idea what brick streets, cobble or brick streets and sidewalks do,
Speaker 2: but that's okay. Doctor Korn' would report emphasizes how human
Speaker 2: behavior significantly contributes to the rodent population, which he calls
Speaker 2: a modern day city conundrum. Oh, I like that word conundrum.
Speaker 2: Storing trash and plastic bags is a norm in some
Speaker 2: areas of the city. The brats just gnaw through those
Speaker 2: babies which is a key factor in the rodent population.
Speaker 2: Changing this behavior is critical to reducing the rodent population,
Speaker 2: and it needs to be done consistently throughout the city.
Speaker 2: That is so accurate, so correct. I'm looking at some
Speaker 2: pictures here of overflowing dumpsters, dumpsters that don't have any
Speaker 2: top on them. All the rat does is climbs up
Speaker 2: into the dumpster and it's lunchtime. It's a buffet. Be informed.
Speaker 2: The City of Boston diligently educates property owners and residents
Speaker 2: regarding the proper method to store trash. The key to
Speaker 2: quality urban rodent control is eliminating and limiting access to food, water,
Speaker 2: and shelter, all of which rodents need to thrive. Okay,
Speaker 2: enough of the experts. I want to hear from you.
Speaker 2: How do you think Boston that he's doing. Give the
Speaker 2: city well, again, this is non intended as a criticism
Speaker 2: of the mayor. Give the city rating number one, but
Speaker 2: also give your fellow residents a rating because my suspicion
Speaker 2: is my suspicion is that most people in Boston think
Speaker 2: other people are kind of swaps. I get around Boston
Speaker 2: enough to know that rats are going to be a
Speaker 2: problem this summer. This spring, and you're going to start
Speaker 2: to see him soon, depending upon where you where you're
Speaker 2: going to walk. Will you see them in the middle
Speaker 2: of the Boston common I don't know. My question is
Speaker 2: where have you seen them? Six one seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Give us a call. I think if we talk about it,
Speaker 2: maybe it will wake some people up and they will
Speaker 2: put their trash inside of plastic or or steel containers dumpsters,
Speaker 2: and they will make sure that they are not overflowing
Speaker 2: and that the dumpster will be walked so the rats
Speaker 2: can't get in. Talking about rats in Boston, and we're
Speaker 2: talking about the four legged fuck God. We're not talking
Speaker 2: about politicians, no no, no, no jokes about politicians indicted
Speaker 2: or otherwise. We're talking about rodents. And can Boston ever ever?
Speaker 2: They can't get rid of them, but can we control
Speaker 2: the rodent population in Boston? I'll tell you if you
Speaker 2: see one, you never forget them. They are not cute
Speaker 2: little critters. They are not whatsoever. Six one seven, two thirty,
Speaker 2: six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty. And those
Speaker 2: of you in suburbia who don't see rats, you're lucky
Speaker 2: coming to Boston if you want to see some rats
Speaker 2: back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: So here's my question. I want to broaden this question
Speaker 2: a little bit. Obviously, no one seems to be particularly
Speaker 2: interested about the rat population in Boston. I don't live
Speaker 2: in Boston, but I committed Boston occasionally, and it's a
Speaker 2: concern that I have because rats do carry disease, so
Speaker 2: it's more than just an ugly appearance in an alleyway.
Speaker 2: The deaths recently of Gene Hackman and his wife I
Speaker 2: think have been attributed to the fact that somehow rats,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't think get too descriptive here, but
Speaker 2: somehow rats have gotten into their house and they carry diseases.
Speaker 2: They carry diseases, and we got to get rid of them.
Speaker 2: And it just seems to me that I'm not here
Speaker 2: again to blame may Or Wu in this one. I
Speaker 2: can blame her for a lot of things, but not
Speaker 2: on this because this problem predated her, and I suspect
Speaker 2: it's probably unless some real action is taken, will postate her.
Speaker 2: You got to have dumpsters which close completely. You can't
Speaker 2: have dumpsters which get thrown around and tossed around. Rats
Speaker 2: can kind of sneak in, climb up, sneak in, not
Speaker 2: a problem. And as long as the food stuff is
Speaker 2: exposed and in those dumpsters with some form of either
Speaker 2: a paper bag or a plastic bag, the rats are
Speaker 2: going to get through them. So I'd love to hear
Speaker 2: from some of you feel free. You don't have to
Speaker 2: be a Boston resident, although I'd love to hear Boston residents.
Speaker 2: Is this is it on a concern that you have
Speaker 2: or is it something that you don't talk about because
Speaker 2: you don't want people to realize that that Boston has
Speaker 2: a huge rat population. And again, if you're in the
Speaker 2: restaurant areas in Boston and you know you won't see them,
Speaker 2: they are pretty cagy, but they will. They will come
Speaker 2: out and they can scurry across the street in front
Speaker 2: of you very easily. And it makes look, it makes
Speaker 2: a visit to Boston uncomfortable. So here are the number
Speaker 2: six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six one seven, nine,
Speaker 2: three one ten thirty. And if you live in Boston
Speaker 2: and you have never seen a rat, you know, I
Speaker 2: would suggest you go see an optometrist as soon as
Speaker 2: possible and get fitted for glasses. No, I'm I'm joking
Speaker 2: when I say that. I would love to know if
Speaker 2: this is a concern to you, because it should be,
Speaker 2: because it is. They will always try to get somewhere.
Speaker 2: They want what you have. What what do you have?
Speaker 2: You have water, you have access to water, you have food,
Speaker 2: and you also have shelter. So if a rat can
Speaker 2: decide to find a way into your cellar and during
Speaker 2: the winter can be a heck of a lot warmer
Speaker 2: in your cellar than somewhere else out being outside, they
Speaker 2: will do that. They have. Rats are survivors. I mean,
Speaker 2: rats are like cockroaches. They they're everywhere. They survive and
Speaker 2: you've got to be aware of them. And if you're
Speaker 2: not aware of them, uh, they will take over where
Speaker 2: you live. And it's tougher in a city like Boston.
Speaker 2: Six seven thirty. We take a quick break for the
Speaker 2: news six one, seven ninety. Got a couple of callers
Speaker 2: coming in. I'd love to hear from you. If you
Speaker 2: think it's a problem. What should the city do about
Speaker 2: it that they're not doing. I mean, it's all well
Speaker 2: and good to put up a nice uh page here,
Speaker 2: City of Boston page and talk about the Boston Road
Speaker 2: and Action Plan. But is there ever a listing or
Speaker 2: information from the city that says, hey, we uh, you
Speaker 2: know rat poison. I mean, you know, what do you
Speaker 2: do if you put rat poison out? Some people are
Speaker 2: going to be upset about it because they're afraid that
Speaker 2: that federal dogs or federal cats could to get into it.
Speaker 2: I get all of that, But where do you draw
Speaker 2: the line. What are you willing to do to get
Speaker 2: rid of rats in Boston? Because unless you authorize the
Speaker 2: city to take action, they they will overtake, they'll overtake
Speaker 2: the city. Six one, seven two thirty, six, seven thirty
Speaker 2: coming right back on night Side.
Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Well, this is not an overwhelming response. I would think
Speaker 2: that most people in Boston would would want to talk
Speaker 2: about rats. Now if it's not a problem. If you
Speaker 2: don't think rats are a problem in Boston and you
Speaker 2: live in Boston, I think I think you're you're you're
Speaker 2: kind of ignoring a problem. But that's okay. We'll give
Speaker 2: you a chance to talk about it, and if not,
Speaker 2: we'll move to something else. Let me go to Paul
Speaker 2: in Dorchester, Paul, I appreciate your calling. How are you tonight?
Speaker 3: I'm okay, Dan. There's a lot of rats in Dorchester,
Speaker 3: and uh, I'll tell you if they're in Boston, they're everywhere,
Speaker 3: and even out in the suburbs when they do and
Speaker 3: construction on the gas lines or something. They come from everywhere.
Speaker 3: And I got a couple of suggestions. Now I don't know,
Speaker 3: I have four, well four things now on the dumpsters.
Speaker 3: Could the people that do the pickups themselves, that own
Speaker 3: the dumpsters and make money off it, could they make
Speaker 3: some sort of an adapter where they put on like
Speaker 3: I don't know, if I can mention there's a little
Speaker 3: green pellet that I use to kill rats. You know,
Speaker 3: if once when they change the dumpster, when they pick
Speaker 3: up the dirt, could they change the little trap sort
Speaker 3: of thing on each dumpster. Each dumpster could have a
Speaker 3: little adapter with like one of these little pellets on
Speaker 3: it that attracts the rats and they eat them. Now,
Speaker 3: that's one possible thing, is making it with you.
Speaker 2: I think that's a great idea. I will tell you
Speaker 2: that there's a certain group of Bostonians. Some people will say, well,
Speaker 2: how do you keep the feral cats and the federal
Speaker 2: dogs from eating that stuff too. So that's going to
Speaker 2: be you know, there's always people out there who are
Speaker 2: going to raise an objection, and until the city is
Speaker 2: overrun with rats, uh, they will prevail. But you got
Speaker 2: to do something. I mean, if nothing else, give them
Speaker 2: birth control pills.
Speaker 3: Speaking of the cats, speaking of the feral cats. Now,
Speaker 3: when when Boston originally had the problems the the the
Speaker 3: forefathers used Boston terriers to kill rats. Now, Boston terriers
Speaker 3: will kill rats like you have no in about ten seconds,
Speaker 3: they'll shake it left and right and the rats dead.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if we can have Boston terrier patrols.
Speaker 2: Or I don't see why not.
Speaker 3: I would rather see you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 3: you get the guys out in New York wearing red hats.
Speaker 3: We could have Boston terrier patrols or rats. But how
Speaker 3: about a bounty? Damn? What if we offered a bounty
Speaker 3: on each rat? If we could attract people to like
Speaker 3: that one time there was bounties believing it or not
Speaker 3: on seals in Boston habits, like a twenty five dollar bounty.
Speaker 2: The problem is that most people would freak out with
Speaker 2: they wouldn't want to even go near a rat.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, not everybody's a crocodile hunter, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, but somebody may go after it. Now, let
Speaker 3: me tell you. Now, in France, believe it or not,
Speaker 3: one day a month, on Thursday, they serve rat and
Speaker 3: it's a specialty and it's a delicacy and people get
Speaker 3: dressed up in tuxedos and gowns to go to this
Speaker 3: Thursday once a month and they dine eloquently, on on
Speaker 3: on rat.
Speaker 2: You're not pulling my leg, right, I mean, you sound
Speaker 2: too serious.
Speaker 3: And I'm not, even though the leg is one of
Speaker 3: the better portions of the rat. I hear from John
Speaker 3: Dean who had to go He's to face his fear
Speaker 3: he had to eat a rat. But that's another thing
Speaker 3: that maybe we need more recipes for rat. You know,
Speaker 3: like they're trying to get rid of the green crabs,
Speaker 3: and one of the things they're doing is they're trying
Speaker 3: to come up with recipes for green crabs. Seriously, I'm
Speaker 3: not suggesting that we make that.
Speaker 2: We had a woman on about that last week, by
Speaker 2: the way, Okay, and yeah, I had never heard of
Speaker 2: green crabs. I can make a joke out of it.
Speaker 2: About it right now, but I'm not going to. If
Speaker 2: you get my drift, well.
Speaker 3: I means I'm going about it MC ratburger. We could
Speaker 3: see them to Democrats, they'd go crazy for them. We're
Speaker 3: gonna get a pied piper an.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm want you here. Well, here's the deal. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at this right here. This is the story out
Speaker 2: of the BBC eating bamboo rats in China. Uh, Chinese
Speaker 2: rat delicacies explained. And then and then the BBC has
Speaker 2: one here that says seven countries where rats are on
Speaker 2: the menu that uh, it says the Indian stated by
Speaker 2: har rats Apparently there. I guess there's some countries around
Speaker 2: the world where oh my god. Yeah, but I gotta
Speaker 2: tell you, it doesn't look to me like France is
Speaker 2: one of them. But I'll but I will take your
Speaker 2: word for it, because, hey, the French eat snails, so
Speaker 2: if they eat snails, why.
Speaker 3: Not rats, right, I'd rather speral cats around than than
Speaker 3: dirty rats. You know, a bounty, I don't know how
Speaker 3: you figure out how much it would be worth. Maybe
Speaker 3: a quarter. I mean, there's so many of them they
Speaker 3: would add up. You could make a lot of money
Speaker 3: if you wanted to go to the town. Paul, you've
Speaker 3: come up with some.
Speaker 2: Good ideas, and let's see if others want to comment
Speaker 2: on it. I think it's a good suggestion. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: if you brought in a rat carcass you bring a
Speaker 2: rac carcass in, that's yeah. The other thing, too, is
Speaker 2: I do think that if they put around, if they
Speaker 2: put birth control for rats, put put birth control pills
Speaker 2: in the base of dumpers, dumpsters and around dumpsters, make
Speaker 2: them nice, tasty little pellets. I think that's the problem.
Speaker 3: And they can do it once a week when they
Speaker 3: when they empty the barrel, they can re all right, Paul,
Speaker 3: put the dumpster guys making money.
Speaker 2: Well, that's true too. Yeah, I'm not opposed to that.
Speaker 2: I'm not a posed I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 2: Thank you much, Paul. We'll talk soon. Let me go
Speaker 2: to Susan in Duxbury. Susan, you don't have any rats
Speaker 2: in Duxbury. I'm sure right.
Speaker 4: Fully two legged. So again, I work with animal control.
Speaker 4: And the reason I wanted to call is that I'm
Speaker 4: vehemently opposed to the poison because what happens is the
Speaker 4: raptors end up grabbing the rats and then they ingest
Speaker 4: them and it kills them. So you lose your owls,
Speaker 4: you lose your you know, redtail hawk, that type of thing.
Speaker 4: We get that all the time.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 4: We get calls for you know, distressed birds of prey
Speaker 4: and it's because they've grabbed the rat. So, you know,
Speaker 4: any kind of trapping. Of course, you know, if you
Speaker 4: have a certain amount of feral cats, the feral cats
Speaker 4: will kill the rats. If you remember back on the
Speaker 4: bubonic plague, the reason that spread so quickly is because
Speaker 4: you know, they got rid of the cat population and
Speaker 4: then of course the wrap population. Multiplayer.
Speaker 2: Well that's what And you know, I must tell you,
Speaker 2: I remember saw I saw a story last year. I
Speaker 2: think there was an owl or or it might have
Speaker 2: been an eagle that had ingested a rat. And yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that's a concern. But but the other concern
Speaker 2: that I have is the disease that rats spread. You
Speaker 2: mentioned the bubonic plague, right that we could have we
Speaker 2: could still have that here. What do you do? I suggested,
Speaker 2: get a lot of birth control pills up there for rats.
Speaker 2: I totally agree, yeah, yep, okay, And no one should
Speaker 2: have any religious.
Speaker 4: All and you know trap trapping is a great way
Speaker 4: to go. Obviously, this is you know, humane traps or
Speaker 4: some kind of trap.
Speaker 2: Where will let me ask you this, what do you
Speaker 2: say this? This is where we might disagree. You're saying
Speaker 2: humane traps for rats. So you trap the rat and
Speaker 2: the rats alive, what do you do with them at
Speaker 2: that point?
Speaker 4: Well, you humanely kill them, you know some I the
Speaker 4: reason I'm saying that is because you know, some people
Speaker 4: get really hysterical about any kind of affront to any
Speaker 4: kind of animal, and you know, being an animal control
Speaker 4: I don't want to see any any animal hurt. However,
Speaker 4: if you have an overpopulation, you know a trap is
Speaker 4: the best and quickest way to end that. But some people.
Speaker 3: Object to that.
Speaker 4: So ye, so I have no issue with using traps.
Speaker 4: Use them in my own house up north, and they're
Speaker 4: very effective and it's quick and painless, and you know.
Speaker 2: We'll payless for you with me. Maybe not, maybe not for.
Speaker 4: The rat's not going to be loving it, but but
Speaker 4: it's better than having, you know, our rat suffer until
Speaker 4: it meets its end.
Speaker 2: You know, Look, if I step if I step on
Speaker 2: an end and I see that the end has not
Speaker 2: died and he's still or she's still finish it off. However, however,
Speaker 2: I think that the PEED people on this subject are
Speaker 2: just way over the top, Meaning so I have to
Speaker 2: put rat traps out there in which the rat goes
Speaker 2: in and then the rat can't get out. Uh, that's
Speaker 2: that sounds lovely, But at some point you're going to
Speaker 2: have to kill him. And you know, I think that
Speaker 2: that some of the PEED people would say, well, don't
Speaker 2: kill him, bring him out to western Massachusetts and let
Speaker 2: them forage in the in the woods. I don't think
Speaker 2: you want to do that to Western Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: Well, not to mention, we don't allow and I don't
Speaker 4: think the state allows on animals to get relocated because
Speaker 4: when you do that, they're now infringing on another creature's territory.
Speaker 4: So you don't want to do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little that gets a little crazy. That
Speaker 2: gets a little crazy too, I mean, you know, I
Speaker 2: mean it's like it's so easy for people who never
Speaker 2: have to deal with it. But if you live in
Speaker 2: Boston and you pay, you pay a lot of money
Speaker 2: to live on on Newbury Street, or or to have
Speaker 2: a place on Newbury Street, or to be on Commonwealth
Speaker 2: Avenue on Marlborough Street. Those places are infested with rats. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: and a lot of it is our own unwillingness to
Speaker 2: buy dumpsters which will close tightly and firmly and never allow.
Speaker 2: But the rats can slither up. Then they sneak in
Speaker 2: and they have they have lunch, they have breakfast. Susan,
Speaker 2: thanks very much. It's great to hear from you. I
Speaker 2: think you raised a good point. I would say, you
Speaker 2: do what you gotta do to get rid of them,
Speaker 2: because at some point, at some point, there's going to
Speaker 2: be a big disease that's going to be spread. And
Speaker 2: I know we think about it, well, the bubonic plague,
Speaker 2: the Black death, that's all from the dark Ages. Well,
Speaker 2: the ages will get pretty dark as we find, as
Speaker 2: we find.
Speaker 4: But my main reasons for calling is I really discourage
Speaker 4: people from using poison because they you know, they may
Speaker 4: have it in the house, but the rat will go outside,
Speaker 4: which means the raptors will get them. And there's nothing
Speaker 4: worse than picking up an owl that's in its last
Speaker 4: breath because it's ingested, or rap that's eaten poison, because
Speaker 4: it kills them too. And I you know, we want
Speaker 4: to target. We want to target the pest. We don't
Speaker 4: want to target, you know, things that we cherish, which
Speaker 4: is the raptors.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm with you, I'm with you. But as they say,
Speaker 2: I think the traps are fine. At least I'm okay
Speaker 2: with land traps. Thanks Susan, talk to you soon. Have
Speaker 2: a great night.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Take care Dan six one.
Speaker 2: Seven, two four ten thirty six one seven nine three
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. If there are some peda types out
Speaker 2: there who want to tell me that rats are good
Speaker 2: for the environment or whatever, Okay, that's fine. Uh, let's
Speaker 2: keep it rolling. Six one seven, two five four ten
Speaker 2: thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty. I
Speaker 2: got some open lines. I'd love to hear from folks
Speaker 2: in Boston because that's the problem. That's the problem, that's
Speaker 2: where the population is. And I gotta tell you it's
Speaker 2: not going away, at least under the current sets of circumstances.
Speaker 2: And uh, eventually we're going to have real problems, meaning
Speaker 2: we're going to have a child attacked or bitten in
Speaker 2: a you know, it'll happen. It'll happen. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: prevent it. I'd love to have you joined the conversation.
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on you BZ,
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We're talking about rats specifically in Boston. That's where they exist.
Speaker 2: The first day of a partial spring today, I mean
Speaker 2: it got over sixty degrees, So I thought this would
Speaker 2: be a good opportunity for us to talk about the
Speaker 2: roadent problem in Boston. There was a Boston Rodent Action Plan,
Speaker 2: probably none of you were aware of that. It was
Speaker 2: formulated and publicized last summer. We went over some of that.
Speaker 2: It has all sorts of advice for city residents. It's
Speaker 2: important to consider for this is now for tenant. It's
Speaker 2: important to consider both the outside and inside of your
Speaker 2: home in your sanitation efforts. Yeah, store trash and a
Speaker 2: proper receptacle. It doesn't help if it's a proper receptacle
Speaker 2: that doesn't have the cover. Comes come down to prevent
Speaker 2: you ever ever take a walk in any of the
Speaker 2: back alleys there between Newberry Street and Cornwelf Avenue. I'm
Speaker 2: telling you it's it's not a pretty site. Well between
Speaker 2: Boilston and nob Re Street. Not clean up dog wasist,
Speaker 2: rats and mice love to eat your dog's waist. Do
Speaker 2: not feed the birds, and eating food can attract rudents
Speaker 2: and other vermin. Let's go to Joe and Bridgewater. I
Speaker 2: don't think they have any rats in Bridgewater. Hey, Joe,
Speaker 2: how are you tona?
Speaker 5: Well, depends on what you define as rats.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the four legged type. Joe, forget you
Speaker 2: forget your political leaders down there.
Speaker 5: So so I lived. I grew up like a mile
Speaker 5: away from where you did in iPark and lived in
Speaker 5: the city for many years. And you know, the last
Speaker 5: time I think you talked about this, you mentioned someone
Speaker 5: of the experts came on and mentioned that you could
Speaker 5: chemically alter their ability to reproduce. So they were gonna base,
Speaker 5: they were gonna plant baits down. And I wonder if
Speaker 5: there's any any results of that.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. We tried. We tried to get
Speaker 2: the renowned, as the City of Boston describes him, renowned
Speaker 2: urban rodentologist, doctor Bobby Corgan. He wrote this report last
Speaker 2: summer detailing the factors contributing to Boston's rodent population. I mean,
Speaker 2: there wasn't a lot in it that most people couldn't
Speaker 2: have figured out, you know, you'll leave, you know, you
Speaker 2: throw trash on the street, you dump your your pizza
Speaker 2: crust as you're walking down the street, you leave your
Speaker 2: coffee cups, you know, and you don't put trash in
Speaker 2: in receptacles that are tight, you know. You know what
Speaker 2: the result is common sense that we didn't have much
Speaker 2: common sense anymore?
Speaker 5: Can I can? I? So I have a lot of
Speaker 5: family members that of Boston fire. And I got to
Speaker 5: tell you a story about a kitchen fire in Chinatown
Speaker 5: that my brother responded to. And you know, it was
Speaker 5: a sea of of of just discussed. You know, it's
Speaker 5: like something out of a horror movie. And every every
Speaker 5: you know, we're putting out the fire and they have
Speaker 5: to knock over the bins and the curtons that are
Speaker 5: stored down there, and there's rats everywhere. And then there's
Speaker 5: a little crate over in the corner and my brothers,
Speaker 5: you know, the captain actually looks at it and asks
Speaker 5: the cook and it was they asked the cook, and
Speaker 5: the cook says, it's beach chicken.
Speaker 1: It was golf beach chicken, called.
Speaker 5: The beach chicken. Oh and very good, very good. They
Speaker 5: had fifty seagulls in a crate in that that's the
Speaker 5: last time I went to China's Cow or anything.
Speaker 3: Dan.
Speaker 5: It's just unbelievable, how disgusting.
Speaker 2: Some that's pretty creative. That's pretty creative to call it
Speaker 2: beach chicken.
Speaker 5: Beach chicken, Well, you.
Speaker 2: Don't, you know what the old joke is anything that
Speaker 2: like that. You say, Oh, it tastes just like chicken.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what it is. Oh yeah, it's just
Speaker 2: like it's just like chicken fried up and you won't
Speaker 2: know the difference.
Speaker 5: All my always thought it was a federal offense to
Speaker 5: actually use seagull so just because they clean the beaches
Speaker 5: in the environment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I would think that there's probably a lot
Speaker 2: of things that are federal, that are federal offenses that
Speaker 2: probably people either don't realize or ignore. Okay, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, I I slowed down the other day. I
Speaker 2: was driving and all of a sudden, this Canadian goose
Speaker 2: is walking across. It was a back road. It was
Speaker 2: over in Cambridge, right by the Charles River cut through
Speaker 2: I take to get to my gym, and this golden
Speaker 2: this Canadian goose. Uh he was or she was intent
Speaker 2: on traversing the entire road at their pace and there's
Speaker 2: no way, you know, because that is a federal offense
Speaker 2: if you intentionally strike the Canadian goose they have. You know, now,
Speaker 2: maybe when with President Trump, he's gonna, you know, remove
Speaker 2: these as part of the tariffs, remove the protection for
Speaker 2: the Canadian geese. You never know. But until that happens, right, well,
Speaker 2: he just the only thing he could do is remove
Speaker 2: the protection. But no, it's a federal law. And so
Speaker 2: I'm sitting there. It was only like three minutes, okay,
Speaker 2: but it seemed like three hours because this this Canadian
Speaker 2: goose is looking at me like, you're not going to
Speaker 2: run me over. I know that you're not even going
Speaker 2: to beat the horn at me because if I have
Speaker 2: a heart attack and flip over here, they're going to
Speaker 2: accuse you of killing me. So I'm taking the globe.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't they love that? Imagine Yvonne, that that crazy conservative
Speaker 2: talk show host slew a Canadian goose. Yeah but anyway, No, Look,
Speaker 2: the bottom line is that Boston has a lot of rats.
Speaker 2: It sounds like the people don't care about it, because
Speaker 2: we only got Paul from Dorchester. And guess what if
Speaker 2: people don't care about it, there's no reason that the
Speaker 2: mayor or anyone else should should take it and make
Speaker 2: it a top priority. Simple as that.
Speaker 5: So I was stating a girl that lived on Hemingway Street.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I went to go.
Speaker 5: Fire up the grill, and you wouldn't believe what jumped
Speaker 5: out at me. I rather grill in the trash, and
Speaker 5: I took her. I was living in Hingham at the time,
Speaker 5: and I took their trash every day from her apartment.
Speaker 2: And either that or we're eating out tonight, ladies.
Speaker 3: We did that night.
Speaker 2: That was Hey, Joe, I got to run here. I
Speaker 2: got the ten o'clock stare at me in the face.
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling in, Joe. I really appreciate the stories.
Speaker 2: Thank you much. That's a great call.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: We have three really good calls that hour, and I
Speaker 2: want to thank specifically Paul Susan from Duxbury and Joe
Speaker 2: for Bridgewater. Back on night Side, right after this, the
Speaker 2: ten o'clock news go talk about violence in America. We
Speaker 2: got to tone it down, folks.