New TV Show: Dancing With The Rats
Washington, DC apparently feels it cannot let New York City go unchallenged in the great rat race. Oh, sure, New York got big headlines when rats were videotaped running wild in a takeout joint. But Washington is going for the gold, so to speak. They plan a new reality television show, Dancing With the Rats.
District officials closed the restaurants as a result of an "Inside Edition" segment, which is set to air at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday on Channel 9. The show shows "rodents running wild" in Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan restaurants.
The program will show "vermin dancing in the alleys and leaping out of trashcans behind restaurants," a news release for the show says.
The District has 4,024 establishments that serve food and require yearly inspections. D.C. Health Department Director Gregg A. Pane says the city has taken a comprehensive approach that includes education, inspection, baiting and enforcement.
We have it on good authority that Chuck Schumer saw the camera crew filming this segment and had to be restrained from running in front of it to deliver a sound bite. Well, that's what we heard, anyway.
By Thomas, Tuesday, 3 April , 2007 @ 8:49 pm
I don’t suppose these are the rats that ride egg beaters like bicycles and skate on pats of butter like in “The Muppets Take Manhattan?”