– On a rat tour
New York tour guides show how a plague can become a business model: rats, once a symbol of pestilence and rubbish, are now considered an attraction.
Violetta Simon
Published today at 9:19 p.m
Rats everywhere: A bit of horror has always fascinated people.
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How much a city is plagued by its rats can be seen in the careers of those responsible for getting rid of them. New York, for example, has a director of rat control who used to teach children. However, the rodents that continue to run around between New Yorkers’ legs remain unimpressed.
Recently an animal walked across the counter of a crowded bar, as in see a YouTube video is. The screaming from the guests that follows is enough to go through your bones. What’s really scary, however, is the idea that this was just one of an estimated two million rats that populate the city.
Hundreds of thousands of people also follow nightly ratwatching tours online via video.
On the other hand: horror, when well measured, has always fascinated people. On Instagram and Co. There are numerous videos of people sleeping in public spaces with a rodent crawling up their leg and running over their body. Filming someone like that instead of relieving them from the situation is basically proof that humans are the biggest rats.
You get this tendency towards voyeurism According to a report in the New Yorker Now the city’s tourist guides are taking advantage of this and relying on it: rat tourism. So that visitors can see what the rodents do up close, stops are planned at particularly frequented places. Hundreds of thousands of people also follow nightly ratwatching tours online via video, says a blogger.
Well, maybe it’s not as glamorous as the Disneyland setting constructed for “Ratatouille,” the film about the Parisian boiling rat. But a little attention can only be good for a New York rat who lives on pizza leftovers.
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2023-09-11 19:19:21
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