Tag: rats
Burger joint shutters after video shows workers grilling rat
A restaurant in Hawaii was forced to close temporarily when a stomach-turning video of a rodent sizzling on its grill popped up on social media, according to reports.
“We are horrified a former employee would create something like this trying to destroy our reputation without regard for our 20-plus years of quality and aloha,” Teddy’s Bigger Burgers President Richard Stula told Hawaii News Now.
The video, which surfaced on Snapchat, appears to show two teenage workers joking as they fry up the baby rat next to a beef patty at the restaurant in Honolulu.
“Braaaaah. Gnarly. Employees at Teddy’s Bigger Burger cooking a rat at the 99 ranch location. Ummmmm … so gnar,” reads the caption, according to a screengrab posted by Fox News.
The restaurant fired at least one employee — and plans to conduct a “complete sanitization” of equipment and replace utensils, company reps told the station.
“We will then send a corporate team in to inspect and complete a thorough audit of the location before it is allowed to re-open,” Stula told Fox.
He added, “We are horrified that a former teenage employee would conduct themselves in that way and make such a video of which we are investigating its authenticity.”
The state’s Department of Health was scheduled to inspect the restaurant Friday.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/11/23/burger-joint-shutters-after-video-shows-workers-grilling-rat/
FedEx worker helps rescue child left alone in rat-infested hellhole
A 5-year-old boy — left home alone inside a rat-infested Bronx apartment — was rescued Friday after he was discovered by a FedEx deliveryman, law enforcement sources said.
The boy’s parents, Wilfred Lewis, 59, and Charlotte Lewis, 48, were arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child after cops discovered the kid in the apartment filled with feces, trash, bedbugs and maggots, sources said.
The deliveryman needed a signature on a package and knocked on the family’s door, which the little boy answered, sources said.
The FedEx man asked where his parents were and the boy responded, “They’re not home,” before the deliveryman flagged down nearby cops for help, sources said.
The mom, a nurse at Montefiore Medical Center, was arrested at work, authorities said.
The father, who claimed his 5-year-old son was “self-sufficient,” surrendered at the 50th Precinct station house, sources said.
The boy’s siblings — two girls, 12 and 13, and a 15-year-old deaf boy — were in school at the time.
City child-welfare agents took the kids to Montefiore for evaluation.
The apartment reeked of human feces and a look inside the apartment — through the drilled-out door knob — showed trash strewn throughout the unit.
The family has had previous contacts with the Administration for Children’s Services, sources said.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/01/27/fedex-worker-helps-rescue-child-left-alone-in-rat-infested-hellhole/