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Old 10-16-2014, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Northern Wisconsin
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I thought you folks in the windy city would like to know this.

Chicago Named Most Rat-Infested City in USA
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Old 10-16-2014, 04:12 PM
 
Location: Phoenix metro
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Are you guys that bored in TX? lol
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Old 10-16-2014, 04:18 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Are you guys that bored in TX? lol
Wouldn't you be?

I'd rather be stuck here for the rest of my life rats and all than have to endure Lubbock for six months.
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Old 10-16-2014, 04:22 PM
 
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I worked on the So called Mag Mile 600n Michigan Av...... Ya it is Rat Infested, cant picture Chitcago as a whole is any better than Down town...
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Old 10-16-2014, 04:30 PM
 
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Are you guys that bored in TX? lol
Are you that bored in AZ?

Anyway, yeah, sounds about right to me.
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Old 10-16-2014, 04:38 PM
 
Location: Chicago - Logan Square
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From the press release:

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It's important to remember that this list is based solely on the number of treatments Orkin performed last year.
So it has nothing to do with the number of rats, just how much business Orkin does in each city.
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Old 10-16-2014, 04:51 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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I thought you folks in the windy city would like to know this.

Chicago Named Most Rat-Infested City in USA
I've seen plenty of mice on the train tracks. A few hawks. One coyote. One picture of an alligator at O'Hare.

Can't say I've seen a rat out and about. But I have seen plenty of them "rat killing" posters on them electric poles.

*spits into spittoon*
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Old 10-18-2014, 02:37 AM
 
Location: East Central Pennsylvania/ Chicago for 6yrs.
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NYC boast the best of everything..... They have the SUPER RATS....
BETTER WATCH OUT THERE IN TEXAS......THOSE MOVING FROM THE NORTH and moving on down MIGHT BE A COMING WITH A FEW CRITTERS.....I don't mean possums......LOL
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Old 10-18-2014, 07:30 AM
 
Location: broke leftist craphole Illizuela
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Old 10-18-2014, 09:08 AM
 
Location: Lincoln Park, Chicago
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Yeah, it's based on calls to Orkin. This is worse than the moving company company survey
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