The rats in the flier look more like escaped pet rats.

Yeah anyone ever heard of QR codes?

Town Spa in Stoughton

True, but it’s not like they wanna put the rats somewhere else. They just want them dead lol.

I regret that I only have one vote to give you.

Frankly, I've only ever seen mice (albeit Boston rats are smol). And no cockroaches is a neat blessing too

I'm in pest control and it is definitely not hyperbolic to refer to Boston and surrounding towns as dealing with a rat crisis

The kind of person who talks about "the kind of person" is probably the kind of person who makes unfair generalizations about other groups of people

That email address is longer than whatever message I’d type to them

I’ll be sure to grab a family sized pack of poke balls when I head to costco later.

lukewarm take: there probably isn’t a ton of white collar crime being knowingly committed, because these crimes eventually result in visible, problem-causing business outcomes than can’t be buried. Finding these crimes when they’re just starting out, before the consequences of the crime start boiling over is like sifting for a needle that may or may not exists in a vast haystack of hard-to-publicly-access documentation. Short of a well-staffed IRS, the best way to spot these crimes is probably AI-based auditing of tax filings, payroll documents, and any other accounting documents filed with the local/state/federal government.

if it’s systemic injustices you’re interested in— well, for the most part they’re quite legal. white collar crimes are recognized as crimes only because they significantly impede profitable business over the long run.

I lived in nyc for 7 years so I can’t help but roll my eyes lol. Boston and its suburbs don’t know a rat problem

I was thinking it sounds like a grunge band

Title gave me a hearty chuckle thank you OP

Seriously, pizza eating rats the size of cats.

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Brookline rats are way more rare & collectible than Allston rats

Brookline Rats sound like a great name for a soccer team.

Welcome to city-life. 😛

I, for one, would like to NOT indirectly poison raptors and coyotes, thank you very much.

can someone please rewrite this with more emojis

based

Did they intentionally choose a psychedelic watercolor background for the top rat or is that just the ink running Pretty cool either way

this is funny. i like it

Peak r/Boston post and commentary.

Let's dunk on Brookline and call them NIMBYs for no reason because some of them are experiencing new rat infestations.

From an awareness pov, I don't see this as an issue. I'm sure a bunch of people saw these signs and were like "I knew it wasn't just me".