New York, Nov. 30. New York City Hall, always in the fight against rodents, no longer knows which ideas to turn to to counter their proliferation and has put up for sale a T-shirt proclaiming that “Rats don’t rule the city. We do.”
The white T-shirts, with a logo in the center depicting a rat running away with a no-sign, retail for $48 each and were produced by the Department of Hygiene (garbage), which however noted that revenue will not be specifically intended for the fight against rodents, after being requested by EFE.
The statement about rats running the city – which in English has a double meaning with the word “run”, which also means to run – was spoken by the commissioner of the Department of Sanitation, Jessica Tich, last October, and is went viral. on TikTok, resulting in many jokes.
The t-shirts can be ordered for now from OnlyNY, which bills itself as “an independent clothing brand” specializing in New York motifs: https://onlyny.com/products/only-ny-x-dsny-the-rats-t-shirt -don’t-run-in-this-town?variant=39923011747924
Yesterday Tisch was convinced that “the mice are going to hate this shirt, just as they hate the steps we’re taking to close their ‘eat anything you want all night’ menus. Mice have been living comfortably for far too long, until now,” he said. said.
In a city accustomed to complaining about the omnipresence of rodents, visible on subway tracks, in parks and in the piles of garbage that pile up in the streets awaiting collection, this seems like yet another occurrence of Eric Adams’s Mayor’s Office, which has moreover, the hours in which it is possible to take out the rubbish have been restricted to try to avoid the concentration of these uncomfortable diners. EFE extension
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