Mayor Tells Judge He's Spent Thousands In Bed-Stuy Rat Battle: Report

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — Mayor Eric Adams told a judge that he's already spent thousands of dollars trying guarding his Bed-Stuy town house against the nefarious rat, according to reports.

Adams began the hearing over a $300 Health department fine telling the judge that he was something of a rat-fighting expert, detailing his mayoral moves to fight the enduring symbol of New York City.

Hizzoner then explained how he has spent nearly $7000 last spring fighting rodents at his Lafayette Avenue property. The cash went toward enhanced fortification in an ongoing battle against rats, which his neighbors told the Daily News can be heard all through the night.

Adams added that city laws are "designed to penalize homeowners for failing to take steps to prevent and control rodents," adding that he has taken those steps "and will continue to do so," the Times reported.

The Mayor told the judge that he even deployed one of the iconic boozy rat dunk tanks he infamously unveiled at a morbid press conference in 2019 as Brooklyn Borough President, according to the Times, a device that experts told Patch is the wrong strategy in urban rat infestations.

The only way to truly deal with infestations, according to experts, is to change the conditions — namely the free food left out all night in the form of household trash left on the curb in east-to-chew plastic bags.

As rodent experts like to say: you can't kill your way out of a rat problem.