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Rats Invade NY KFC-Taco Bell Restaurant



Friday February 23, 10:18 AM EST


NEW YORK (AP) — When the owner's away, the rats will play.

News video showing about a dozen rats running around a KFC-Taco Bell restaurant in Greenwich Village was widely disseminated Friday on TV stations and the Internet.

The footage, taken from the sidewalk through a window, showed the rats running around the floor, between counters and tables and on children's high chairs. The establishment was not open at the time.

News crews flocked to the scene, and onlookers gave a play-by-play as the rodents moved about. When one rat came close to the window, a person on the sidewalk said: "He's coming for his close-up."

There was no answer at the phone number displayed in neon on the store window below the words "We Deliver."

Yum Brands Inc., based in Louisville, Ky., owns the KFC and Taco Bell chains. A message for comment left by The Associated Press was not immediately returned on Friday.



It wasn't immediately clear if the restaurant in question was owned by the company or a franchisee.

Yum shares fell 86 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $60.20 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Last week, it was reported that Taco Bell sales had slumped after a widely publicized E. coli scare, but that international sales helped Yum Brands in the company's fourth quarter.

The E. coli outbreak late last year caused more than 70 Taco Bell customers to become ill. Federal officials said in December that the most likely source of the illnesses was lettuce. Taco Bell took precautions by changing its suppliers of lettuce and cheese in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Rats have long been a problem in New York City, with such a dense population and such a large and readily available food supply for the rodents. They are frequently scampering through subway tunnels, rooting through trash, dashing across parks and burrowing into the walls of apartment buildings.

But it is rare to see so many rats congregating in one place in such public view.
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YUM. I think they use rat meat on their tacos anyway.

No, I think that's only in the combo burritos......

Grilled, stuffed rat burrios.....Crunchewezzy!

Therein lies the tale (tail).........

Someone once told me the grade of beef they use in tacos is lower than that in dog food. Not sure if it's true or not but I think it tastes terrible. But steak grilled stuffed burritos are my fav! There steak isn't all that but when your drinking theres nothing better.

Let me get a 3 piece rat and roach, w/mashed potatoes, cole slaw, and biscuit!!!!!

dude, in Toledo someone found a bandaid under the skin of the fried chikcen like two years ago.

so? What's so gross about that?

Afraid of the chat because of work?

maybe they're not rats.... maybe they're small beavers.

Shoot.......did you see them on tv?Damn.......that was alot of rats roaming KFC/Taco Smell.