03 Feb 08
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/02/03/MNB4RN991.DTL
Life at the bottom: S.F.'s Sunnydale project
On a typical day in San Francisco's largest housing project, teens ditch school to take the bus to a funeral. A woman wanders into the liquor store to buy Cheetos for her young grandson and a 20-ounce beer for herself. Two 3-year-old boys ride their tricycles down a steep hill patched with trash and broken glass.
Such is life in Sunnydale, quite possibly the most dangerous, depressed and decrepit area of the city. The dilapidated barracks that make up the development are lined up on a hillside in the shadow of the Cow Palace, opposite McLaren Park in Visitacion Valley.
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05 Feb 08
Originally posted by zeeblebotI do relate to the problems that these nests of human rats create in the inner city. However I don't know what can be done about it except to stop feeding people who don't work to improve themselves.
too harsh. the rent is $160 / mo and PG&E picks up the utility bill. people don't want to find jobs, coz they'd go over income limits and have to leave.
i think they should move sunnydale to the countryside and put it under workfare.
(re relate i meant your neighborhood.)
05 Feb 08
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Originally posted by shavixmirNo, God drowns and smites humanity.
God preserve humanity.
Did I ever mention my cocaine addict uncle? He lived in a building he inhereted and bragged about how he made 8 bucks an hour tax free by begging. He used it to finance his homosexual, drug filled lifestyle.
He died of AIDS. The bank took the building.
05 Feb 08
Originally posted by AThousandYoungNo. I think I would have remembered that uncle...
No, God drowns and smites humanity.
Did I ever mention my cocaine addict uncle? He lived in a building he inhereted and bragged about how he made 8 bucks an hour tax free by begging. He used it to finance his homosexual, drug filled lifestyle.
He died of AIDS. The bank took the building.
06 Feb 08
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Originally posted by shavixmirNo, they kill when they're hungry too.
Rats only kill when they're cornered.
"Rats feed directly on wildlife..."
http://www.nps.gov/archive/chis/naturalresources/page8.html
A rat has recently attacked a little baby in the city of Tver, Central Russia. When the baby-girl was sleeping alone in the room, a rat attacked the child and started biting her furiously in the face. The little girl was hospitalized as a result of the incident – doctors of the local hospital managed to save the child's life, although the girl had to stay in the reanimation department of the hospital for quite a long time.
The State Sanitary Service of the Tver region said that incidents of rat attacks were extremely rare. Such occurrences have not been registered in the region during several recent years at all. Specialists for the Sanitary Service said that the attack probably occurred because of the fact that there was a grocery store in the apartment block, where the family was living. The store was closed for repairs for a long time, which made hungry rats start looking for food all over the house.
As it turned out later, the grocery store was not the reason of the above-mentioned rat attack. It was not the first occurrence in Tver, when rodents attacked humans. People, who live in an apartment block in another street of the city, said that they were afraid to sleep at night because of a very large quantity of rats and mice in the building. A rat has already attacked and bit one of the families. The animal crawled into a bedroom at night and attacked a sleeping woman. The woman woke up because of the terrible pain. “It took me some time to realize what was going on. When I finally came to my senses, I chased the rat away, although it managed to scratch my husband's neck as it was escaping,” the woman said. As a result, the two people had to undergo a complete course of medical treatment. Rats and other rodents are known for transmitting a whole bouquet of lethal diseases, including plague and rabies.
http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/crimes/17-02-2005/7758-rat-0