Occupy D.C., now one of the longest-running offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street movement, closed its community kitchen this week and had a visit from city health officials after repeated complaints about an uptick of rats around the area.

D.C. Health Department Director Mohammad Akhter personally inspected the protest area Thursday and said there were definite signs of rodents thriving among the food and trash from the group’s outdoor kitchen, D.C.’s WUSA-TV reported. According to the Washington Post, rats have been spotted for weeks scurrying around tents and pallets.

In response to the complaints, Occupiers launched a full-scale clean-up effort and even voluntarily shut the kitchen down.

“On a regular basis,” Occupy’s unofficial chef Basant Khalsa told WUSA. ”People will sneak into the kitchen after I done washed up all the dishes and went to bed. And they will make messes in there.”

Akhter said he’s also concerned about the danger of fires and hypothermia as temperatures dip and winter sets in. He is expected to make recommendations for the future of the camp based on his assessment.

While D.C. officials have been largely supportive of the Occupy movement, the Associated Press reported that it was Mayor Vincent Gray who ordered the inspection.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/occupy-d-c-kitchen-shut-down-amid-rat-infestation/

this.

You just got regulated, bitches.

Rats?  How could they differentiate between workers and infestation?

You can rule out Congress. They're in recess.

The rodents filed the complaint.  

That makes them prime suspects.

I'm not concerned at all.



 

Me neither. They can call it Occupopsicle DC.

Imagine if a an put-of-nowhere-fuck-blizzard hits one of these......

Isn't it funny how the Tianamen Square "Occupiers" back in the day were so much better at personal hygiene?

If only we had some of last-year's weather.

Winnah!

The double digit snowstorms in the DC area often occur in Feb.





 

The 4 legged rats are the one's working.

DemocRATS

I walked by there yesterday on my way to lunch, I saw this sign



Educate myself

Mother fucker, you are the one living in a god damned tent!

I am surprised it took the rats this long to find them.

They started recess kind of late - budget arguments and all.