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CousinIT

(9,247 posts)
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 06:18 PM Apr 2017

Jared Kushner's NYC Building Infested With Rats...



While Jared Kushner was visiting Iraq with a bulletproof vest over his blazer and failing to find $7 billion to finance his phallic eighty-story glass tower on Fifth Avenue, tenants in two of his Lower Manhattan buildings were dealing with a more prosaic problem.

Rats. Big ones.

“One of the neighbors opened the door to take out the garbage and a rat jumped on her leg,” says a rent-stabilized tenant at 156 Sullivan Street in the South Village who doesn’t want to give his name because he’s “nervous that the landlord might do something.”

“I can see there’s rats running around all over the place,” he told the Voice, referring to the enclosed alley next to the building where the garbage cans are kept. “A lot of times, you can see the bags move because the rats are in there eating.”


http://www.villagevoice.com/news/jared-kushner-top-white-house-advisor-and-nyc-rat-lord-9875824
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Jared Kushner's NYC Building Infested With Rats... (Original Post) CousinIT Apr 2017 OP
Very appropriate malaise Apr 2017 #1
Republican rats Achilleaze Apr 2017 #2
Slumlord? Me. Apr 2017 #3
So is the White House. nt cwydro Apr 2017 #4
Bipedal, quadruped or both? democratisphere Apr 2017 #5
Send in the terriers A HERETIC I AM Apr 2017 #6
Nah, cats would be better. . .however. . . DinahMoeHum Apr 2017 #7
I beg to differ. (What might be considered to be a graphic video) A HERETIC I AM Apr 2017 #8
The big boy there who keeps getting outrun by the terriers made me laugh so hard. He decided anneboleyn Apr 2017 #11
All I know is that he keeps the house he has down the street from me tidy... brooklynite Apr 2017 #9
So is the White House sheshe2 Apr 2017 #10
That would completely freak me out Phoenix61 Apr 2017 #12
What an apt metaphor. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Apr 2017 #13

malaise

(269,054 posts)
1. Very appropriate
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 06:22 PM
Apr 2017

Years ago, the winning band at Trinidad Carnival was called rats - it had gutter rats, 'ristocrats, plutocrats, bureaucrats and several others. Kushner his family and his in laws fit any variety of 'rats.

DinahMoeHum

(21,794 posts)
7. Nah, cats would be better. . .however. . .
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 07:23 PM
Apr 2017

. . .the Trumpies apparently don't like live animals of any kind, and besides. . .
. . .real pussies grab back. . .


anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
11. The big boy there who keeps getting outrun by the terriers made me laugh so hard. He decided
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 07:40 PM
Apr 2017

just to watch after awhile. Yeah, terriers have been used for this for years, very effectively (it is in their breeding). I have been into horses for years and terriers are excellent ratters in barns (they should never be allowed to run around a horse's hooves however as even horses that know the dog very well can still hurt/kill a terrier with a kick out of instinct or even a misstep)

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