The latest in a 355-year effort to wipe out New York City's rats is a bucket of a toxic soup so foul a demonstration Thursday had observers turning away in disgust, The New York Times reported.
Brooklyn Borough president Eric Adams unveiled the bucket of yuck from Rat Trap Inc., and noted: "Sometimes you need to see for yourselves to get the shock effect."
"That's disgusting," replied one reporter, turning their face away from a murky bucket of dead rats that stunk so bad it was "stomach-churning," according to the Times.
The pilot program for the traps, which cost between $300 and $400, is underway around Brooklyn Borough Hall, but Adams' spokesman Jonah Allon told reporters one of the bucket traps has already been disabled — by a rat.
"It was so big it broke the spring mechanism in the box, so that it was no longer functioning," he told reporters, the Times reported.
"It's gross, but it's helping people," Peter Golia, who runs Rat Trap Distribution, told the Times. "If you put a dead rat in a garbage with poison, it's degrading into the ground and contaminating the soil."
He was secretive about the anti-rat recipe, however, calling it "an all-natural solution."
"It's an alcohol, oil, and vinegar-based solution," he told the Times. "It's organic!"
"You could actually drink that and you probably wouldn't die," he told the Times. "Well, maybe a little sick."
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