"This is not Ratatouille. Rats are not our friends."
New York City has a rat problem. Here's what these politicians have to say about it...
New York City has a rat problem. Here's what these politicians have to say about it...
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00:00Everyone that knows me, they know one thing. I hate rats.
00:03This is not Ratatouille. Rats are not our friends.
00:07The rats don't run this city. We do.
00:14When we started killing them in Borough Hall, you know, some of the same folks
00:18that are criticizing us now called me a murderer because I was killing rats.
00:22Well, you know what? We're going to kill rats.
00:24Fighting crime, fighting inequality, fighting rats is something that we are focused on
00:31as we continue to make this city a livable city.
00:34There are many rivers that are feeding the sea of rodents in this city,
00:38and today we're damming one of them.
00:54I want to be clear. The rats are absolutely going to hate this announcement.
01:11The biggest swing that you can take at cleaning up our streets
01:15is to shut down the all-night, all-you-can-eat rat buffet.
01:19Like the fax machine, typewriter, and BlackBerry,
01:23our current collection schedule will be seen by future generations as comically archaic.