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Mall Rats #8516009
12/03/25 12:45 PM
12/03/25 12:45 PM
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Pennsylvania
elsmasho82 Offline OP
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Literally.
Just heard that South Union township is suing the Uniontown mall because it’s apparently INFESTED with rats.
Has been a dead mall for near ten years except for JC Penney and some flea market type stands

This would never happen at good ol Laurel mall and there’s a farm n feed store there!

Coyote Cowboy bring your .22 and help me clear em out

Re: Mall Rats [Re: elsmasho82] #8516017
12/03/25 01:09 PM
12/03/25 01:09 PM
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Pechin's Mall had rats and possums. They'd even help you taste the food you were buying.

Take your fishing gear into the grocery section and you could fish thru the floor boards.


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Re: Mall Rats [Re: elkaholic] #8516033
12/03/25 01:51 PM
12/03/25 01:51 PM
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Pennsylvania
elsmasho82 Offline OP
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Originally Posted by elkaholic
Pechin's Mall had rats and possums. They'd even help you taste the food you were buying.

Take your fishing gear into the grocery section and you could fish thru the floor boards.


I remember the creek running underneath!!!
Remember the way Pechin smelled.
Wet cardboard and meat

Re: Mall Rats [Re: elsmasho82] #8516043
12/03/25 02:07 PM
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SW Pa
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We get calls for those mall rat problems but the mgt. takes the low bidder and the low bidder never resolves the problem. Some of these folks depend upon baits only for treatment.

Those problems require radical trapping first before following up with baiting then some structural repairs to stop the flow in and out. Those pest control folks just don't have the skill and dont want to spend the time needed to do a good job.

Re: Mall Rats [Re: elsmasho82] #8516068
12/03/25 02:42 PM
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"Mall Rats", do you mean something like 12-16 year olds?


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Re: Mall Rats [Re: elsmasho82] #8516070
12/03/25 02:51 PM
12/03/25 02:51 PM
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Different than hood rats I presume


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Re: Mall Rats [Re: elsmasho82] #8516090
12/03/25 03:25 PM
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Back in '78-79 my wife was working evenings at an Eckerds Drug in the strip mall of our small town in SC.. With only one auto, I would pick her up from work many evenings. As soon as it got dark the rats would come out the drains in the mall sidewalks and run all over. That place was totally infested. Never saw one in the daylight though.

Re: Mall Rats [Re: waggler] #8516092
12/03/25 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by waggler
"Mall Rats", do you mean something like 12-16 year olds?



I thought this thread was going to be about feral teenagers.
I was wrong, it's honestly about rats

Re: Mall Rats [Re: elsmasho82] #8516186
12/03/25 06:27 PM
12/03/25 06:27 PM
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Pennsylvania
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I just wonder what they are eating cause there is nothing in there

Re: Mall Rats [Re: elsmasho82] #8516355
12/03/25 09:58 PM
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I thought of Jay and Silent Bob .


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Re: Mall Rats [Re: Aaron Proffitt] #8516356
12/03/25 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Aaron Proffitt
I thought of Jay and Silent Bob .


That’s what I was going for!!!

Re: Mall Rats [Re: elsmasho82] #8516358
12/03/25 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by elsmasho82
Literally.
Just heard that South Union township is suing the Uniontown mall because it’s apparently INFESTED with rats.
Has been a dead mall for near ten years except for JC Penney and some flea market type stands

This would never happen at good ol Laurel mall and there’s a farm n feed store there!

Coyote Cowboy bring your .22 and help me clear em out

Maybe I should bring some rat shot so I don't really damage anything, or maybe I oughtta use a BB gun cool


North to the Future!
Re: Mall Rats [Re: elsmasho82] #8516367
12/03/25 10:29 PM
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I heard that a Whole Foods store in Silicon Valley Ca. Was closed for a month from a rat infestation. That is a high end grocery store. The valley I live in has a big problem with rats right now, my Jack Russel kills what’s around my place. I’m blaming Beaverpeeler , it started at his place.

wws

Re: Mall Rats [Re: elsmasho82] #8516387
12/03/25 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by elsmasho82
I just wonder what they are eating cause there is nothing in there


The roaches.

Keith

Re: Mall Rats [Re: KeithC] #8516504
12/04/25 07:46 AM
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Watched a utube video about the empty malls in Pa. All owned by the same corporations.

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