Rampaging Rodents
The Miami International Airport is under siege by the rodent legions of the Animal Uprising™. Passengers are reporting seeing rats and mice running about the airport concourses.
MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Fla. (WSVN) — Airport officials say they are working to resolve a major rodent problem at Miami International Airport. They say a multimillion-dollar construction project has set rats and mice loose in the terminals.
Passengers at MIA have already witnessed the hairy, disease-carrying vermin scurrying around the airport and rank them as one of the top customer service complaints. At least four passengers have written letters to the airport's complaint department over the last 14 months, the most recent received on Feb. 27.
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard are being told by one of our usually incoherent informants that the rodents are catching flights to various rodent vacation spots. Sumatra is reportedly a big destination.
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Blue Crab Boulevard » The Rat Riviera — Friday, 6 April , 2007 @ 11:24 am
By Lars Walker, Thursday, 5 April , 2007 @ 1:48 pm
Sumatra. That’s good. How many readers will catch that reference?
By Gaius, Thursday, 5 April , 2007 @ 2:03 pm
Heh. One so far!
By nedludd, Thursday, 5 April , 2007 @ 9:02 pm
Don’t worry , Nick’s on the job.
http://www.firesigntheatre.com/albums/gros1.mp3
By Gaius, Thursday, 5 April , 2007 @ 9:41 pm
One of my all time favorites.
By OldeForce, Thursday, 5 April , 2007 @ 11:32 pm
Had this happen on the 24th floor of an office building near Grand Central Station. The floor above us had executive offices that hadn’t been used for about a year. Crew came in to rearrange walls and furniture and opened up several nests of mice. Seems the mice run up and down the water pipes.
Sticky traps caught the ones on our floor, but we had one older woman we found trying to get the mice unglued! She felt sorry for them.
If you have a mouse caught on a glue trap, get a bread bag or the bag used to deliver your newspaper. With a glove on[!!!], reach into the bag, grasp the edge of the glue trap away from the mouse’s head, then pull the bag down past your hand to enclose the mouse and trap. Tie off the bag and drop it in the garbage - or out the 24th floor window. [No, we didn't. Maybe.]