[SOC] Fwd: Polk Country going to the rats?

[Bill Cunningham]

Rob,

We heard a similar report from Leavenworth,  KS, about 20 years back.  The
local troops were mobilized with disastrous effect --

10 WIA, 4 KIA, 3 MIA and 6 came back with war brides.

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From: "Rob Matherly" <w0jrm@arrl.net>
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Subject: [SOC] Fwd: Polk Country going to the rats?


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> Subject: [scaniowa] Polk Country going to the rats?
> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 23:48:41 -0500
> To: Scan Iowa Group <scaniowa@yahoogroups.com>
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> DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Polk County officials have decided to surrender
the
>  courthouse basement to rats. County officials said Tuesday they plan to
>  abandon the basement within two weeks, possibly in favor of rented space
>  across the street. Court records and more than a dozen employees will
have
>  to be transferred.
>
> Rats have been spotted in the basement for decades, but the rodent
population
>  has grown and the rats have become braver in recent months, partly due to
>  spring cleaning, said Bruce Greiner, director of the county's general
>  services department.
>
> "Once we cleaned up all that stuff down there, we kind of took away their
>  places to hide," Greiner said.
>
> There have been dozens of rat sightings in the past 90 days, including one
>  that invaded a judge's restroom vanity on the second floor and another
seen
>  leaping from a desk drawer on the first floor.
>
> Court employees have been warned to keep food in glass or metal containers
>  and to clap their hands when walking down dark hallways.
>
> "Just because of the sheer nature of the issue, we think that we're better
>  off to move people out of the basement," County Manager Teree
>  Caldwell-Johnson said. "I don't think that we would ever move people back
>  into that basement."
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