NYC Rat Population Issues Formal Rebuttal to Mayor’s Extermination Campaign, Cites Factual Inaccuracies in Press Materials
Rodent community questions population estimate methodology, disputes characterization of subway habitat as ‘unsanitary,’ requests meeting with rat czar Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat NEW YORK, NEW YORK — The New York City rat community, speaking through its appointed representative for the purposes of this satirical publication which absolutely believes all of this, issued a formal rebuttal Thursday to the mayor’s rat mitigation initiative, disputing several claims made in City Hall press materials, questioning the methodology of the estimated two million rodent population figure, and requesting a direct dialogue with the city’s newly appointed Rat Czar before any further extermination infrastructure is deployed. The Rebuttal’s Main Arguments The rebuttal, formatted as a three-page letter and submitted to City Hall’s public comment portal under the name “NYC Rat Community (Collective),” makes the following claims: that the two million population estimate is based on “trap-ba...