Anybody for a taco from this taco bell??

[darkeyed_daisy]

NEW YORK - A dozen rats were caught on video scurrying around the floor of a New York City KFC/Taco Bell restaurant early Friday, running between counters and tables and climbing on children's high chairs.
News crews flocked to the windows of the Greenwich Village neighborhood restaurant, which hadn't opened for the day. By midmorning, the footage was all over the Internet and television news shows, with onlookers giving a play-by-play from the sidewalk as the rodents moved about.
"He's coming for his close-up," one bystander said as a rat came near the window.
A statement issued Friday for KFC/Taco Bell said construction in the building's basement on Thursday "temporarily escalated the situation."
The franchise owner "is actively addressing this issue," the statement said, adding that the restaurant will remain closed until the problem is "completely resolved."
"Nothing is more important to us than the health and safety of our customers. This is completely unacceptable and is an absolute violation of our high standard," it said.
The city Department of Health had inspectors at the site on Thursday and again Friday, said department spokeswoman Sara Markt. She said the restaurant had passed inspection several months ago, with only a note of warning about "droppings."
Rats have long been a problem in New York City, with such a dense population and such a large and readily available food supply for the rodents. They are frequently scampering through subway tunnels, rooting through trash, dashing across parks and burrowing into the walls of apartment buildings.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070223/ap_on_re_us/restaurant_rats



YUCK!!!!!!!

[garvey]

I love Taco Bell, but I haven't been there since the lettuce scare!
I have to stick to frozen burritos.

Watch out for those tacos with tails!

[teena]

Eeekkkkk!!!! And Uuuuggggghhhhhh!!!!!

[alhavel]

Figures,,, I know of this one, but all of New York City has rats, and roaches, yea,,,, I've eaten from there, a while ago, thank god.......It is a way of life in the Big Apple.
. They go as far as to ride the subways for free, they ignore the Metro card turnstyles, and board at their own free will. Cheap Bastards!!

[2jazzyjeff]

I just saw the local news and they ran this story. Rats themselves don't bother me at all. I had a pet boa for 7 years and fed her rats weekly... but watching the clip where 12+ rats were running around is just awful.

[CurlieQCarrie]

Nasty.

Taco John's is soooo much better anyway.

[van damn]

So that's what happened to the dog.:zombie:

[metronycguy]

i think there is a huge rat infestation in lower Manhattan, bigger than ever. the building is non stop, the rat burrows are disturbed. at dusk if you are in any park you will start seeing movement around the bushes. i was going into the subway last week and and a rat came running right at me. definitely disturbing. got a good laugh out of that taco bell/kfc in the west village, you want them extra crispy?

[bbs]

They look as though they had their fill of tacos! My God! Taco Bell sure is getting a bad rat..I mean Rap! ;)

[CurlieQCarrie]

Oh man, I didn't look at the link before, but those are some big damn rats!
I couldn't imagine seeing one in real life in a restaurant, well anywhere for that matter. They obviously were eating good!!!

[divin'darren]

I went a little out of my way today to drive past there today. Haha, g-ross, ugh.

[alhavel]

In a land that time, not forgot, but, the roaches are as big as the mice once were, beware the roaches, they'll lift your purse, or wallet and you won't even know it. Lived in NYC, for years, missed, but not always loved the "surroundings". 1,2,3,9 up town or down town, they love to commute. Why use a sewage pipe? Mass transit is so much better these days, A/C too!!!!!!!

[Obieone]

In some countries rats are revered http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0628_040628_tvrats.html ... maybe we should use reverse psychology and make them our friends .. http://wererat.net/ratfacts.htm !!

Obieone

[cass]

glad i live in the woods where the rats run free, mostly outta site and have more natural (and abundant) food than taco bell. tg i'm a country "girl!" (john denver credit and sommers).

Well, life on a farm is kinda laid back,
ain't much an old country boy like me can’t hack.
It's early to rise, early in the sack thank God I'm a country boy.
Well, a simple kind of life never did me no harm,
raising me a family and working on the farm.
My days are all filled with an easy country charm, thank God I'm a country boy.
Well, I got me a fine wife, I got me old fiddle.
When the sun's coming up, I got cakes on the griddle.
And life ain't nothing but a funny, funny riddle, thank God I'm a country boy.

When the work's all done and the sun's setting low,
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
The kids are asleep so I keep it kinda low, thank God I'm a country boy.
I'd play Sally Gooding all day if I could,
but the lord and my wife wouldn't take it very good.
So I fiddle when I can and I work when I should, thank God I'm a country boy.
Well, I got me a fine wife, I got me old fiddle.
When the sun's coming up, I got cakes on the griddle.
And life ain't nothing but a funny, funny riddle, thank God I'm a country boy.

I wouldn't trade my life for diamonds or jewels,
I never was one of them money hungry fools.
I'd rather have my fiddle and my farming tools, thank God I'm a country boy.
Yeah, city folk driving in a black limousine,
a lotta sad people thinking that's-a mighty keen.
Son, let me tell you now exactly what I mean, thank God I'm a country boy.
Well, I got me a fine wife, I got me old fiddle.
When the sun's coming up, I got cakes on the griddle.
And life ain't nothing but a funny, funny riddle, thank God I'm a country boy.

Well, my fiddle was my daddy's till the day he died,
and he took me by the hand and held me close to his side.
He said, "Live a good life and play my fiddle with pride,
and thank God you're a country boy.
My Daddy taught me young how to hunt and how to whittle,
he taught me how to work and play a tune on the fiddle.
He taught me how to love and how to give just a little,
thank God I'm a country boy.
Well, I got me a fine wife, I got me old fiddle.
When the sun's coming up, I got cakes on the griddle.
And life ain't nothing but a funny, funny riddle, thank God I'm a country boy.

[NorthQuad]

Alberta is rat free, thank goodness. I'd be slinging a 6 shooter of kitty's at all times if we weren't.

[darkeyed_daisy]

When we sold my grandfathers place, they tore down the barn where all the barn cats live. I guess they just moved up the hill to my house as I havent had so much as a mouse on the sidewalk or a chipmunk either for that matter in over a year. Maybe the cats in NY are getting fed too well to need to eat rats...LOL

[Hunker]

I knew I smelled a rat and quit eating my X-Wife's Taco. :agog:

[metronycguy]

hows that jingle go?
you want rats with that............. supersize rats?
we have a lot of red tail hawks in the city, i like to watch them eyeballing a rat and make the kill.

[Hunker]

I got fired fo making tacos to big You so so you gets rats! :agog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su0U37w2tws Better than returning your food t a cook.