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No Truss, No Fuss

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The Rats Are Not Your Friends at Your Peril

New Yorkers will be fined if they put out their trash before 8 p.m. New York City sanitation officials and mayor Eric Adams announced a new plan earlier this week to reduce the number of hours that trash can sit out on the street night before collection. Aaron Carroll: The rats are way smarter than this rule. So rats are just going to figure out a way to just treat the hours of 8 p.M. until the trash is collected like a sort of happy hour for rats.

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