Pattaya begins campaign to wipe out rats on beaches

 

 

PATTAYA: -- In an effort to keep the image of Pattaya as a world class tourist destination, Pattaya City is now taking serious on growing rat population.

 

Action from the City came after complaints that a lot rats are seen on the beaches and thus affecting the image of the city’s clean beaches.

 

But there are several alternatives to exterminate the rats – in a humane way or brutal choice.

 

After taking into consideration of the brutal alternative..the use of poisons, local authorities feared their carcasses could pose disgusting smells as they could go everywhere before dying and thus scare away tourists.

 

They decide to use non-lethal wire cages instead.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pattaya-begins-campaign-wipe-rats-beaches/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-09-02

"They decided to use non-lethal wire cages instead" I can see a profitable market somewhere opening up for rat meat

PATTAYA: -- In an effort to keep the image of Pattaya as a world class tourist destination, 

 

I stopped reading after this.

Edited September 2, 20169 yr by Rimmer

Pattaya has clean beaches?  

 

Who knew?
 

24 minutes ago, petermik said:

"They decided to use non-lethal wire cages instead" I can see a profitable market somewhere opening up for rat meat

 

No Sir, that is not a mis spelling of Paté, it really is Raté

And to follow may I suggest our unique Ratatouille.

 

The rats are doing a big favour for Pattaya City and the beaches by helping clean up the garbage and filth that is left there by humans. Instead of getting rid of the rats they should be importing more of them.

pattaya beach is where all the businesses on the other side of the road, many of them restaurants,  dump their rubbish, and usually its not dumped in bins but if it is they arent closed. its a free feast for the rats every day. the population would drop drastically if they would only stop feeding them

 

but its good they arent poisoning them, as well as stinking the beach out it also kills the owls and cats that would naturally help keep the rat population down

Edited September 2, 20169 yr by phycokiller

maybe I should take my Jack Russell down there after dark and let him have some fun!!

Going to my mates bar in Soi Diana whenever you go to the toilet there is always a rat or two running across the car park. I think they are fighting a losing game with this plan.

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If they stopped feeding the rats with all the delicious  rubbish they leave on the beach for feeding the rats if there was nothing for them to eat they would soon all head to second road for food to eat.

They will be served at some of the "world class restaurants" soon after

They're going to need a bigger cage

they would have more chance of teaching all the tourist police english (not much chance of that either) best chance is to remove their food source. wonder what they do with them once they catch them, relocate them?

Also the ones with the brown fur ?

Clean up rubbish would be a start.Rats are hungry,no food scraps no rats.

When they are thru with the rats they can do something about the ladyboys. Or maybe the ladyboys should come first. After all when is the last time you heard of a rat pickpocketing a tourist?

15 minutes ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

they would have more chance of teaching all the tourist police english (not much chance of that either) best chance is to remove their food source. wonder what they do with them once they catch them, relocate them?

 

They are reassigned to an inactive post.

52 minutes ago, englishinsiam said:

Going to my mates bar in Soi Diana whenever you go to the toilet there is always a rat or two running across the car park. I think they are fighting a losing game with this plan.

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I've also seen rats in many bars and restaurants. The rats outside, I don't mind.

1 hour ago, khunianb said:

maybe I should take my Jack Russell down there after dark and let him have some fun!!

 

i think thats a bargain idea.

Wire cages are humane, but why do I feel they will be sentenced to death by drowning in the cages?

 

History has shown us worldwide, rats always got a stiff sentence!?

 

Their crime; being a rat and out looking for food.

 

And they thought they were in paradise. 

Thailand should invent some innovative "Thai-Mickey Mouse on the Beach" show like the "Elephant show" to attract tourists. Only sad thing tourists cannot ride them after the show, but Mickey's can ride on tourists.

 

 

i live on the darkside can provide some of the snakes  to clean up the beach ?? 

They're just BEGINNING a campaign?????  To keep Patts a world class tourist destination??????  I just can't go on.  I went there once for the day.  I was living in the home of one of the Immigration cops at the airport and he had to go to a conference at the police building in Jomtien, so he dumped me in Pattaya for the day.  Ghastly place!  What a dump!

I like the kind of humor the "Broadcaster You Can Trust" shows here:

 

In an effort to keep the image of Pattaya as a world class tourist destination…

Keeping the image of Pattaya would be the last thing any serious PR agency would propose.

 

However, reading the headline gave me the impression they offered inactive posts to all criminal Katoeys in the Ministry of Propaganda.

2 hours ago, phycokiller said:

but its good they arent poisoning them, as well as stinking the beach out it also kills the owls and cats that would naturally help keep the rat population down

 

But the owls(?) and cats don't keep the rat population down, that's the point.  Do you think that rats that are poisoned smell any worse than rats that die any other way (and they all do die)?

3 hours ago, Brer Fox said:

The rats are doing a big favour for Pattaya City and the beaches by helping clean up the garbage and filth that is left there by humans. Instead of getting rid of the rats they should be importing more of them.

Do some gene modifying so as to develope a cigarette eating rat, maybe even plastic or rubber.

I thought they are talking about Italian Mafia in Pattaya 

Rats

Why not leave the Rat Race to Rodents. Then  worry about the human race lurking on these beach roads that are much more vile and venomous 

Leave the rats alone. They not hurt any. Exterminate instead all ladyboys.

They need to move onto the walkway from about 9am onwards. The larger rodents are available.