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- GhostCow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27I work at Taco Bell... Thank you digg for ensuring that tonight will be an easy night for me.
- doctechnical, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Why are there raisins in my taco?
Really, if you walked into a restaraunt and saw rats running rampant - wouldn't you turn around 180 and leave ASAP?
Rats are there because food is there. Rats are in the food. Rats poop. Rats poop in food. It ain't calculus, people - rats == ick. - uptown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Seeing rats running around outside is very different than seeing dozens of rats running around the inside of a restaurant. The worst you'll see is when a water main breaks. The water floods the lower areas where the rats live, and they just swarm up to the surface. It's pretty horriffic to watch.
- k8nmodha, on 10/12/2007, -9/+26i was under the impression that New Yorkers had become accustomed to living amongst rats. They're freaking everywhere, aren't they?
Go enjoy some Steak Grilled Taquitos today, this issue is solely isolated to one store in downtown NY - "RAT CENTRAL" - jakhtar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16His icon is upside down as a clever statement.
Flying a flag upside down (as in the case of a ship) signals distress. He's implying that the U.S. is in trouble.
Of course, I just realized that this international distress signal doesn't work so well for countries that have symmetrical flags, like Japan. Or Libya. Something to keep in mind when I choose a flag next time I purchase a country. - schlongmeister, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18mmm...Fourth Meal at Taco Hell.
- EsotericBoredom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I'm surprised the rats chose taco bell to infest. Weren't they sacred of e coli?
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11You managed to pick the only fast food KFC/Taco Bell doesn't sell... nice
- jsdratm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Rats have a bad reputation from the Middle Ages for carrying the plague. They are actually very intelligent animals and can be taught to recognize their name and perform tricks.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@MackDiesel2010
=>"Sure--they poop, but everyone poops."
But do you poop in food other people eat? - infowar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Umm..all I can say is, run for the border!
- goeatsmsht, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yahoo has some great AP video:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070223/ap_on_re_us/restaurant_rats;_ylt=AoGg3t0RpOo3hix067iWCOes0NUE
-poor lady thinks they're mice!
@ k8nmodha
Seeing rats outside - yes, seeing rats inside - not so much
I've actually eaten in this Taco Bell/KFC, never again though.... - jsdratm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Filthy vermin! I have two pet fancy rats and one of them looks just like the ones in the video heh.
- perryge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I love all the AdSense ads for KFC at the top of this page.
- Dayz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8rats outnumber people in NY 9:1
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Ehh, I'm still going to eat at Taco Bell....
- MackDiesel2010, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Oh no a minor nuisance! I don't think I'll ever eat there again!
What is so bad about rats anyway? Sure--they poop, but everyone poops. - digitalsin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10@sideshowRaheem: And you are a health inspector, right? Because I have a friend in the city with a restaurant, and if there is so much as a hint of a rat being anywhere near the kitchen, business and your license is gone.
- wingo123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@jsdratm - Absolutely. I used to have two pet rats. They would cruise around the house and use the litter box for pooping, just like a cat. If you called one of their names, it would run to me and crawl up onto my shoulder. I mean, I wouldn't associate with a rat on the street any more than I would with a pigeon, but they are actually very friendly, clean and smart when domesticated.
- curme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I was eating at a 'Popeyes' near Times Square when a rat ran across the floor. We all just looked at each other and got nauseous at the thought.
- Nildayan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Those are just the rats they forgot to put in their meat.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What we have here is a serious shortage of cats.
- doctechnical, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"They are actually very intelligent animals and can be taught to recognize their name and perform tricks."
Alright, they're intelligent vermin, but they're still vermin. I don't care if the Stephen Hawking of rats himself takes a dump on my stove, then re-arranges the droppings to provide a proof for Fermat's Last Theorem,. that son of a bitch is dead.
Basic hygiene trumps cute *and* smart. - ReyX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"He put Basil in the ratatouille?!?!"
- johnpaul191, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4makes you wonder if something stirred them up.... like a water main break, or some construction. while i don't doubt the filth factor, how come people didn't notice this a while ago? i am guessing there are plenty of places this infested, just that the big windows let people see it.
no matter what it's crazy gross. crazy video. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I lived in a small city when I was in college (Providence, RI) and there were rats EVERYWHERE. I've had rats run up my arms escaping the trash cans as I dragged them out to the curb. Every night when I walked home from work around midnight I'd see several rats crossing the road (and this was behind some of the best restaurants in New England in their Little Italy) right in front of me. The area I lived in was so infested that if you threw, say, a frozen chicken onto the sidewalk and check on it 15 minutes later you'd observe several rats feasting on it and by morning it would be completely gone with even the plastic nowhere to be seen. I did this with a freezer burned chicken on a very boring day.
It's a part of city life, no matter what you do there will always be rats and cockroaches. The best you can do is keep them to a minimum by making it hard for them to find food, which apparently this place didn't do. Not a shocker at all. - jazbek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Health Department records list the franchise owner as ADF Fifth Operating Corp.
...first time I read that, I thought it said "Filth Operating Corp." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@dayz
Except in the NY delegation to the US Senate, where rats outnumber people 2:0.
Sorry..couldn't resist... - futureb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ok...well...now is the time. get it off your chest.
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"POSTED: 6:22 am EST February 23, 2007
UPDATED: 8:51 pm EST February 23, 2007"
A trip back to the first grade might not be a bad idea. - gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"POSTED: 6:22 am EST February 23, 2007
UPDATED: 8:51 pm EST February 23, 2007" - bherring, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah, but doesn't mean I want to share my food with them. I live in Aberdeen, WA. There are meth heads everywhere. Don't mean I want to be around them either.
- surlygrad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I ate at that KFC last week. Ugh.
- JakePM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i live in nyc and see rats from time to time, crossing the street, milling about, but honestly - this was the must repulsive, repugnant and nasty thing i've seen in a long while! - honestly, it is.
- GhostCow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Sour Cream is pretty bad for you. Period. The meat probably isn't any worse than the meat anywhere else. I've also heard rumors that it's bad stuff, but I've asked all around the company and they all say it's fine.
and my icon is supposed to be upside down :P - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I see the bigger problem as ...the NYC Dept of Health....that said they had a clean bill of health, just this past December (despite mouse droppings being visible. ) So they were just given a little warning, but still passed inspection...and after a history of health code violations.
Who is it that can sue the NYC dept of health, on behalf of the citizenry, for not doing even a decent job?
Once again, the week point in the equation is corrupt government!
I'd like to see a law that forces owners of restaurants, particularly those fast food franchises, to have to eat at their own restaurants at certain times, when told by the dept of health....and with no advance warning.
Then we might see things cleaned up nicely.
(Too bad we have such a crappy mayor.). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3esotericboredom:
NYC's population is only a hair over 8 million - dojonz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thank god its caturday.
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4You mean like the PETA right? Yeah, we should all concede to them. Then the world would be so much better off, with their gas bombs and fire bombs and whatnot.
- AchmedChan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2FTA: The statement said construction in the basement on Thursday "temporarily escalated the situation."
- 1911wolf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4When the words Rats, KFC and Taco Bell are used together, it's nothing new.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2NYC is too small a place for the number of people living there. Result: Congestion, crowding, contagion, and too much garbage that cannot be collected rapidly enough to prevent rats from using it as a breeding ground.
- davecor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Awwww crap... the inventory got out again.....
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2While we have many great, clean restaurants, ...well here's a story.
Some yhears ago, I installed wiring for a network in a trendy restaurant (OK...long ago before there were wireless networks), that was called Lucky Chengs. Turns out it featured all trannies-in-drag as the wait-staff.
They had such a major rat problem in teh kitchen downstairs, that the owner was insisting that the holes in the ceiling
(a cellotex acoustical- tile 'drop ceiling') be closed up, with NEW acoustical tiles, so the rats would stay up in the ceiling
(which was between the basement kitchen and the ground level serving area), rather than going down into the kitchen at night.
The rats used to eat right through the flimsy cellotex tiles, and I bet they really enjoyed the huge wooden chopping blocks left covered in raw chicken grease by the cooks. (another health hazard.)
And apparently, the owner was easily able to hide all this from the 'health inspectors', so they opened on schedule, and did business for a few years.
The 'inspectors' were probably just paid off, or maybe given free meals (ewww!)
I think they might have gone out of business a few years ago. - pegisys, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@dayz you sure it's just 9:1, seems like that on the low side
I thought this was going to be one of those overblown "OMG itz a Rat" stories but that is just terrible - spazoidspam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@roger
=>"But do you poop in food other people eat?"
Try it sometime, its invigorating. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The tip off that something was wrong is that it is a chicken/taco venue. Any time they mix two facilities in one place, in my experience, standards go way down. I've eaten sushi at places that offer Chinese food and have regretted it dearly.
- matthewf01, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I work in the call center for Taco Bell's insurance company...
boy do I have some ***** stories about goings-on in all Yum-owned restaurants (Taco Bell, KFC, Long John Silver, A&W, Pizza Hut). - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Frijoles con Salsa Ratones!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3indeed, I keep getting the same response from everyone where I live... "It's New York! What do you expect?"
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