Dude I used to live by Shaw Howard metro back in the day and there was NO Rats NONE! this was back in 87-95. Area was all black no white people, cacs was further up north all the way up Georgia Ave. I moved to Oxon Hill when I was 12 or so shyt was considered a huge upgrade the suburbs at the time. I was up Howard Hospital to visit my aunt last week RIP aunt vette, sitting in the courtyard of the hospital and huge rats was everywhere in broad daylight! I’m talking about running within 5 feet of me I was scared is fk!
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How is it this many rats right at the hospital grounds! Running everywhere jumping in and out the trash cans and in the bushes. This shyt wasn’t like this back in the day NASTY CACS brought them here when they took over North West.
I used to post up around there back in the day and I never saw any rats.
, sitting in the courtyard of the hospital and huge rats was everywhere in broad daylight! I’m talking about running within 5 feet of me I was scared is fk!
Drive around Shaw, U Street, Florida Ave, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, 14th Street, and Georgia Ave on most nights, especially Thursday to Saturday. You’re guaranteed to see overflowing trash cans all along the heavily trafficked streets in addition to some really big rats in the alleys. It’s crazy how for as much flack Soufeast been getting for many years, to this day it’s still arguably the cleanest section of the whole city along with most of Downtown.





Yall got some funny stories about them rats. Yall not lying tho. They do be big af. I used to jog around the National Mall every night late at night past few Summers.