The food in NYC must be better than rice the RATS are a lot bigger and more active. Would be better eating more meat.

3 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Make a phone call and get the plague,another way to die in Thailand.

regards worgeordie 

Since when can you  make phone calls from phone companies' electrical junction boxes?

Edited January 16, 20206 yr by Just Weird

At  least we  know why Thai internet's  so  rubbish.........wonder  how  often the rats  gnaw  thru that  lot

10 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Since when can you  make phone calls from phone companies' electrical junction boxes?

need  to  know  basis

Lol - buddy of mine is staying in a serviced apartment near Big C Extra (Central Pattaya).

We were chatting one afternoon at the front door of his building a couple weeks ago when a rat ran down the soi and up the front steps directly towards us.

I snapped my left foot forward and caught the little ***** perfectly, launching him into the air. He landed about 40 feet down the soi, rolled over, got up and made a beeline directly towards us again ! As he got to the stairs I took a step forward and got ready to see if I could boot him even further with my right foot. He got to the stairs and thought better of it, going around to the side and hiding in some shrubs near the buildings water fountain. Didn't seem to be hurt at all.

The Thai women manning the front desk and small shop inside the lobby had a good giggle. Apparently they saw me boot it the first time. I'm sure if I hadn't been there it would have gone into the lobby and back into the kitchen in the rear and no one would have said (or done anything) about it.

My neighbour has 4 cats, another one near me has two, and the rats in the sewers apparently are friendly with them all. My neighbour even says she saw one of her cats carrying a rat like it was a kitten. I said he probably ate it but my neighbour assured me that her cats don't eat rats ! I've seen the rats eating from the cats food dishes with the cats watching from 2 meters away and doing nothing. Frikken useless buggers !

Most big waterfront cities have rat problems. Rats breed prolifically (having litters every 6 weeks in some cases). They can live almost anywhere and apparently survive on any kind of <deleted> (i.e. refuse) and as we all know, the locals tend to throw a lot of <deleted> into the sewers everyday (which often leads to them plugging up and causing the flooding every rainy season in addition to being a smorgasbord for the rat populations).

I recall a story about someplace that had a severe rat problem and started offering bounties - x amount for every rat tail collected. Problem was, people were catching the rats (or growing them), cutting their tails off and then letting them go !

Once you (a community/city) get infested with those disease machines, it's almost impossible to get rid of them. 
In a city like Bangkok ? Sheesh, you could nuke the entire city and wipe out everything and there'd still be 2 things living there.

Rats and cockroaches.
 

2 hours ago, unamazedloso said:

Rats are everywhere. You can eat em too????????

Unfortunately, the city sewer rats are so riddled with disease that Thais will not eat them.

The rice field rats are much more healthy having a diet of rice, frogs and birds. 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Rats out! "Pretty" farang shames Bangkok with rat infested phone box video!

You can't shame the shameless.

5 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

Unfortunately, the city sewer rats are so riddled with disease that Thais will not eat them.

The rice field rats are much more healthy having a diet of rice, frogs and birds. 

They taste better than KFC chicken to me. 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Thaivisa notes that in this context rats meant rodents, not tourists shaming Thailand...

thank you for making this clear

Some troll posts have been removed. 

4 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Why would a pretty girl make a video about rats? Does that sell on Instagram or YouTube or wherever? 

Just another YouTuber striving for internet glory... and more than 380 followers.

 

Get a real job!

 

I think Thai Immigration should track down this obviously ill-educated, Thai-shaming farang wannabe internet influencer, fine her and deport her for sullying and defaming the nation's reputation.

5 hours ago, ezzra said:

Why Bangkokians are so touchy feely about BKK? 

Face.. 

if she was fat this thread woudn't exist 555

That's no rat its a Siberian hamster called Basil ????

2016 Youtube video - hardly current news, just search bangkok rats to find it.

We have a rubbish room in our condo that as it can be isolated by closing 3 entrances I

offered to get rid of about 150 of them. Not interested.!!  Oh well 

1 hour ago, sammieuk1 said:

That's no rat its a Siberian hamster called Basil ????

 

I remember the first time I visited Cairns (Australia) many years ago and sitting under a tree along the esplanade in the evening. I could hear a lot of activity in the tree and wondered what manner of beautiful wildlife was afoot. I soon got my answer. The tree was full of rats getting ready to descend for a good night of foraging.

Rats are part of any large cities' ecosystem. I once watched a rat in New York drag a piece of pizza down the underground or the subway. They are there and will always be there. What's the big deal?

Well, as long as they are fed with all those non-collected garbage bags, open plastic bags apart from all that food left-over being tossed away .........

Wondering how long it will take for the authorities to hunt down the lady smearing the immaculate face and picture of the land this time ...... 

Edited January 16, 20206 yr by Sydebolle

she needs a work permit, to be a Pretty 

6 hours ago, smedly said:

they carry and spread disease that you do not want to catch

Theres no disease I want to catch. And loads of creepy crawly vectors besides rats. 

 

Cry Havoc and turn loose the Terriers.

Are they being counted in the annual tourist arrival numbers?

'nuf sed.

2 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

if she was fat this thread woudn't exist 555

On the contrary I think if it had said "Fat Farang" it would have got even more clicks. 

 

Thanks for yours anyway.

 

Rooster

2 hours ago, NanLaew said:

I think Thai Immigration should track down this obviously ill-educated, Thai-shaming farang wannabe internet influencer, fine her and deport her for sullying and defaming the nation's reputation.

So you gonna rat on her?

She's not even pretty.

13 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

Shes cute but why get freakzoided out over a rat? Its a City. A big city. A big old city. A big old city with a lot of garbage. A big old city with a lot of garbage and cats and dogs and yes, even snakes and rats. Bet the rats here look over their shoulders alot, although the predators seem awfully languid here.

again this is a English speaking forum.

11 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Rats were the reason I came to BKK in the first place! Leave them alone!

Soi dogs taste better

6 hours ago, Stevemercer said:

I remember the first time I visited Cairns (Australia) many years ago and sitting under a tree along the esplanade in the evening. I could hear a lot of activity in the tree and wondered what manner of beautiful wildlife was afoot. I soon got my answer. The tree was full of rats getting ready to descend for a good night of foraging.

At least we have cute ones in Perth WA

 

2 hours ago, White Christmas13 said:

again this is a English speaking forum.

Well use English then!