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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Someone out there will think of this as 'assisted genocide' or 
something, since rats carry so many diseases...

B

Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> I wonder if Obama has thought of this one yet:
>
> A Berlin politician has come under fire for suggesting that poor people 
> should be encouraged to catch rats by offering them ?1 per dead rodent. The 
> intriguing idea entails some gnawing practical problems and has been called 
> "inhuman and cynical".
> http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,596705,00.html
>
> At the current exchange rate, that's $1.40/rat. Of course I'd have to split 
> that with the  cats...they catch, I just dispose of the dead bodies.
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA 

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