'Ratlantis': Rats take over Tampa intersection with network of tunnels
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- Опубликовано: 24 мар 2024
- It’s like something out of a horror movie, right in the middle of Tampa.
Near the corner of Florida and Hillsborough avenues, an entire colony of rats has overtaken an area where people wait for the bus, neighbors walk with their children, and homeless people occasionally camp out.
Over the months, the rats have dug their way under a pyramid-shaped dome and a network of tunnels that would make your skin crawl.
“I’m from New York. A native New Yorker,” Sarita Walcott said while waiting for a bus.
Walcott says she always expected to see rats in the NYC subway system but was horrified to be sitting at a Tampa bus stop just feet away from such a massive rat nest.
So large, locals have given it nicknames like "Ratopia" and "Ratlantis."
“Yeah, I can deal with that, because I grew up with that. I mean I was understanding that was the thing. In New York in the subways. OK? But I didn’t expect it for down here. No,” Walcott said.
Folks who wait for the #34 bus at the corner of Florida and Hillsborough Avenues say it's been going on for close to a year.
“It’s gross. It’s disgusting,” Michael Edwards said. Edwards says he catches the bus before the sun comes up every morning. when the rats are most active.
“They are jumping in and out of the trash cans. And running back inside, climbing up trees,” he said. “They’re all up in the bus stop area. You have to stomp them away sometimes. And they can get kind of aggravating.”
Effect of all the New Yorkers that moved in
Florida always had mice
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This person gets it
My thoughts EXACTLY! Lived here all my life and never seen rats like this! Between the influx of NY'ers with their rats and the immigrants doing witchcraft bringing in crows and roosters its crazy! 🤪 😜 🤪
Just call the governor he'll give them a ticket to new york
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Yeah, he spent $1 million of taxpayers money to have them flown over there in a private jet
I'm sayin he needs to get with Don and build a big beautiful wall
as big as this county is and the money poured into it there is absolutely no excuse for this to be ongoing.
Uh do you think our great nation is a well maintained machine ?
oh please! These rats are not in anybody’s home and not bothering anyone plus they were here waaay before all these people moved down to Florida and took their habitat away
The old lady from NY said she saw rats regularly in NYC, particularly in the subway. It has to do migration from those cities when their furniture gets delivered to their new place with the moving trucks.
Even the NY rats are moving to Fl.
BRUH JUST GET SOME CATS 😂
Actually, get dog ratters. Look it up. Very cool. It's fascinating to watch in action!
And snakes...
@@ld1994dogs don't survive on rats.
@@FANLIZableyup you got that right 😂
@@ld1994ratters come out with a water truck flood the holes and wow what a great RUclips video it would go viral
Rats are everywhere . You just don't see them most of the times .
Paris France had massive rat colonies around the Eiffel Tower just like that.
That's why Italy is welcome feral cats in their cities.
They are all over the Courtney Campbell Causeway as soon as the sun goes down. To see people out there sitting on the rocks, lying out, and relaxed makes my skin crawl. Good luck, everyone.
Clear sign there's no cats over that area.
Gross!! Everybody’s passing the responsibility 🤦🏼♀️
This is what happens when you have county lawn ordinances designed to keep snakes away.
Why can't they live outside rats are highly intelligent animals and they have a right to live outdoors. I do not understand the problem.
it’s a public health hazard. rats bite, carry rabies, defecate where people are. this spreads disease.
Oh boy. Did you even finish 3rd grade? Smh 🤦♂️
Honestly this is really interesting to see, rats in their urban habitat have made their own little rat kingdom.
Can you describe the “urban habitat” of rats???
The new yorkers destroyed their city now they are destroying florida smdh
What are you talking about... That woman isn't the reason there are rats... 100 % of the problems in Florida are 100% because of locals
Yes please sydh
obviously you are not a native Floridian and you do not know what you’re talking about! Everybody from everywhere at North has moved down to Florida and destroyed the habitats of the native wildlife!! They come down here and then complain that the wildlife needs to be removed after they destroyed their habitat@@exoticalBecky_Miami
@@exoticalBecky_Miamiyea right! Lived here all my lufe never seen rats like this! Between the immigrants n NY'ers bringibg this nasty mess. Please
Neighbors walk their kids? ...down Hillsborough Ave and Florida avenue? ... people walk their "kids" .....
so what if they walk their kids, what do you think those rats are gonna do run out of their holes and attack them?!! and seriously, no one walks their kids down Hillsboro Ave which is one of the busiest streets in Tampa
Dude whats the deal with bus stops in Seminole Heights? In 2017 it was a serial killer that was killing people waiting at bus stops. Now its absurdly large rat nests. Public transportation is truly a nightmare.
Because of the migration from northern cities, they probably brought those rats and mice inadvertently from out of state big cities; when those people had their furniture delivered with those moving truck companies. The old lady came from NY and saw them there a lot. Put 2 and 2 together.
It's there home. That area should be observed with more respect.
No.
At 56th and Busch where the Publix is you she so many rats out at night. They climb in and out if that trash can near the bus stop. Its disgusting
All the people from NY brought them from NY lol
There rats in every State.
Lol you didn't finish your sentence "...in every State politics"😂
The aftermath of all the migration from Ny, NJ & Cali. Yall happy now? I said what I said
Yes you did say what you say but your ignorance is showing.
@@MariaPerez-ke8cx 🤣🤣🤣🤣 bless your heart, I see my comment has you triggered you will be ok
🤣😂 probably true
Nobody is the blame , the usual not me mentality, the city needs to clean it up but it will end up being a taxpayers issue and we will pay for that bill
Waiting for a plague?
Rats don't cause plagues though. Humans are *vastly* more capable of spreading diseases than any animal.
They don't care because its not in their neighborhood.
Who let HAMAS into the city?
The secret of NIHM.
Our tax dollars at work.........
😮 The Macula. It's happening.
Ain't nobody going to do anything about it
Where is the tax payer money?
Floridians know where they came from too.
Fwc would try to relocate them. Crazy thing is they are native since the New Yorkers lol. No but all the snakes and large birds will eat them
Guess the new yorkers took the rats with them. Should of checked their furniture before moving here.
Following.
They are moving inland from the coasts.... Remember the animals know of natural disasters before humans do
Wow that so disgusting. I’m afraid of rat . Shame that anyone want to do anything 😥
Ratlantis 😂😂. Maybe they want transport back to NYC
The real rats are a couple tunnels down
Gross, why hasn't it been addressed yet?
Am I missing something? The rats are outdoors, chilling in their natural habitat. They won't get indoors unless they have access...
They are sentient beings, and they deserve to exist. Humans harm them much more than they harm humans.
Deal with your speciesism.
Exactly
True
Oh please! They’re not in anybody’s home and it’s people that have moved down here destroying habitats that have caused this@@Tater-Skinz
@@thzene4967 humans carry disease and they destroy wildlife habitats, especially in Florida where everybody moves down here
I totally agree!! I just read an article tonight about how empathetic they are towards each other and how intelligent they are. Is the human Saturday the ones
where is the mayor? oh right, at the gay parade
NOT EVERYONE IN GOVERNMENT IS GAY!! Straight people are at fault here!!!
Exactly
Rats are so misunderstood, a lot of what ppl think about them are lies...Their cleaner them most humans, and smarter too! Those are facts!
VENON WITH FOOD WILL HELP ITS NO S BIG DEAL
Get some cats from the shelter, they will be under control in a few months. Clean the trash out too.
And my opinion is the humans that need to leave. They have destroyed all wildlife habitat
Who cares? They do a better job at cleaning up than Waste Management or city workers. All these city workers look exactly the same, like they all are from the same family. It's about who you know down here apparenty.. They get paid well and sit and do nothing. It's a huge problem in Miami Dade.
Leave the rats alone. I am of the mind of leaving wildlife alone and learning to live among all of the other species on this planet.
Brown rats are invasive in the New World
I can only imagine what your house, garage and front and back yards look like. Nasty butt
EXACTLY!! rats are very intelligent and empathetic towards each other and they’re not bothering anyone
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Rat Lives Matter...Feel Me?, gg
LOLOLOLOL @ New Yorker. We r e really obsessed with rats in the subway lol....even though in 40 years thre Ive only seen them there threex!!!!