RatsAndOtherParasiticLifeForms

 

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So I've lived in low rent areas,

Points Of Blight, I sometimes

call it, with gang activity, grafitti,

Slumlords, Thugs & Drugs on the corner(s),

but some relatively recent

stuff is getting beyond me...

 

20100610 11.09 am  Jerry

 

 

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I've heard of Rats here in the 'Hood,

but recently, have had seen the little

pest...

 

The Plague (the original one,

not currently referring to AIDS

epidemic, but the carrying

flea bitten Black Death?

or something, I'm not a history

geek to know the full plight...)

 

They are or can be fast moving,

so I'm still trying to get a photo

of the closest critter,

MetroRail signs so graceously

put them up on posters and

claim to not have them, but

I've personally seen 3 rats

in a caravan along the third

Rail (electrified inside, but they

were not toast at 650 - 750 Volts

on the top cover..,)

 

 

In DC, I've seen them at night

waiting for rides, and other times

smooshed along the roads

while biking and sometimes

walking...

 

Probably any water town has

some Rat Problem, but I'd have

thought, or hoped the Suburbs,

even along the Revitalization Areas

would have been exempt...

 

Fairfax County started running

Bed Bug programs on cable 16 or similar,

shelters, and Motels along some

areas seem to have them,

one homeless person I'd directed

to low cost accommodations reported

having to go to the hospital to deal

with the bites...

 

Some Hotels/ Motels have been raided

for prostitution and other issues,

the human parasites like many

"Consumers/Survivors/ExPatients"

are used to with Hospital and

case workers and administrators

who are on a ego/power

trips, don't show up when appointed,

with no explanation and then

attempt "Do What I Say"

slavery or control which is

contrary to Recovery and

most basic human rights,

likely illegal, even in the First

and Fourth World...

 

I'm wondering what in Rural areas,

people do about mice, and rats,

maybe mousing cats,

I've tried looking for the Mickey Mouse

arch along baseboards, and when I had a house,

living with a group, we had something

and I seem to recall trying to put

balled up aluminum foil to block entrance holes,

exterminators put some poison

down holes (what happens when it Rains/

storms? where does the poison go?

into the watershed? down drains???),

 

I've started telling people about the rats,

so kids, dogs, and others are not harmed,

but the reaction is about as bad

as giving bad news can be...

 

Many are not surprised,

they had seen them, but no one

had said anything.  I'd heard

they were here or nearby,

but recently seen as I was coming in/out

the front door...

 

 

Sleeping when rats are around

is further difficult.  Is it really an

Outside Rat, like pet cats and some

hunting dogs that stay outside?

 

Or while I or others sleep is the

the little pest(s) looking to upgrade

digs and expanding it's family line?

 

King Rat, stories of huge rats

grown on restaurant and other

refuse, around here kids and

probably adults don't put the

trash in the dumpster,

back in the day, there weren't even

dumpsters, but maybe the county

required upgrading the T parking

spots to something where people

didn't have to be up by 7 am

to dispose of trash (only 9-5 employed

people are up at that hour, people going

to evening support groups plus commuting

time, assumed lazy for sleeping in,

really on a swing shift for self care...),

a pickup truck was

coming by to get the T parking spot refuse,

maybe feeding the feral cats

that were babies and kittens on

my patio seen some winters ago

and likely elsewhere...

[Always worried about their lives,

taking in feral cats & kittens,

I'm not sure how...

I do know some who have taken

in abandoned kittens, but I'm likely

allergic, besides the subsidized pet policies,

recent statistics of normals having pets

I seem to recall being maybe 40-50%?]

 

Rabies was encountered here in some

Possum or Opossum, I'm not sure,

but rumors of the hairless odd

looking creatures, with "puppies"?

babies in tow, climbing trees,

up rain gutters, and startling people,

raccoon or similar seen,

maybe our expansion into

previously wooded lots

relocates and crowds out

the natural habitats?

 

And I've seen Fox on the Fairfax Cross

County Trail years ago, and dead on the

highway near here, Fox looks between a

large cat and odd dog, with a bushy

tail, moving quickly, and not a wonder

why Fox Hunts are done in

some communities, for centuries,

millenia, these creatures possibly

coexisted? with humans, and likely

outnumbered us, I'm sure there

are probably more rats and bugs

in this world than humans,

and we Homo Sapiens are in the billions

hundreds of millions in the USA alone...

 

As you might imagine BenX

encountered human pests,

teen high school bullies, taunting and were

creatively dealt with...

 

But the other rodents,

Rats here in this Non Fiction

world, may need another approach,

predatory providers, sick people

enjoying hurting or trying to exploit

the vulnerable and disabled, are counter

to what has been worked on for

over 5 years here, and likely

decades with others.

 

Even some of our prominent

Peers are IMO predatory,

waiting after others have done

prep work, swooping in for the cash/

jobs, titles, respect lacking even among

people claiming to be equals,

the shortage of peer and drop in center

director/ officer and paid positions,

the revenge for decades of

provider control, the likely

response is trying to be like

the Providers, control freaks,

undermining and Queen Bees

belong in prison instead of

trying for professional credentials

like MSW's, positions of power

and an institutionalized

disgrace to any true community...

 

Professional and ParaProfessional

societies have ethical rules against

such stuff, creating dependency

on their services, demeaning,

belittling and other power and

control issues...

 

But you already knew this,

just didn't do anything about

it as it was being formed

and escalated...

 

 

 

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2010610 Jerry

• Jerry created this page to bring into the light,
• many issues we should have not let get to this point...

 

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