City Hall Pattaya Port clean-up tackles rat infestation

[Rimmer]

City Hall Pattaya Port clean-up tackles rat infestation

PATTAYA:--Following our report on Tuesday regarding the rat infestation at the Bali Hai Port at the south end of Pattaya Beach, the local authorities have responded by cleaning the Port area and removing all refuse.

Khun Wasinpat is the head of Environmental Sanitation at Pattaya City Hall and was at the Port on Wednesday to oversee the clean-up which saw all refuse bags cleared from the rocks surrounding the Port area.

High powered water jets were also used to clean footpaths and the rocks to ensure that the rats will not return and to make sure the rats will not be back, rat poison and traps were left around the Port.

- See more at: http://www.pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/165170/city-hall-pattaya-port-clean-up-tackles-rat-infestation/#sthash.Utkg9GzH.dpuf

-- Pattaya One 2015-01-15

[iReason]

Nice to see media/social reporting doing the job of the municipalities/Police.

No enforcement ever done by the fools on the ground until it hits the news.

[cup-O-coffee]

Get rid of the dogs and switch to cats.

[barberpg]

Getting rid of these rats will just push the price up of rats which are used for consumption by the locals. They will be forced to buy them!

Whats a few rats between friends?

[Basil B]

From the photo I have seen there are bags of refuse lodged under the pier placed there by irresponsible boat crews, you are not going to get rid of them by just hosing down the pier, getting them out is a dangerous job.

[Nemesis7]

Good initiative. It will be nice if they could remove the soi stray dogs too.

[Don Aleman]

The rats have been there for years and, now, the city will do something ?

Why is it that officials only respond when someone important is hurt/killed or when the media jumps on their case ? Sad, very sad, leadership !

[changsinghleo]

5 baht per tail in Chiang Mai. Never did hear how that kill worked out. I can't imagine too many tourists took time out from their holidays to beef up their pocketbooks by going on a rat kill. 500 baht for 100 rats? Including the need for gloves and

knives or whatever, I don't see that as having been lucrative even for the best of hunters. But, there it was on this forum some months back. I swear, not joking. Look it up. Perhaps Pattaya has professional ratcatchers but I suspect even they would find it difficult to put food on the table making such piddly earnings. Well, that is providing they don't put the rats on the table!

In that case they'd likely have ample nourishment for long time survival.

[EyesWideOpen]

Four feet or two feet ???? :-)