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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looks like the rat infestation was heavier than originally thought. God how disgusting![/quote]

I feel VINDICATED!  A couple of you doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on me that there were no mice/rats in the house. I told you -- no way!  I know mice and know how they work.  For several postings, and links that I provided, I insisted that there were mice in that main house and that the house was not as clean and you guys assumed.

You guys called me crazy.  But here it is!  The house apparently was more like I described.  To have died from Hantavirus, there had to be a lot of exposure to mouse droppings.  No way Betsy walked out to a barn one day, breathed in some droppings, and walked back in and fell over.  Mice are disgusting and they multiply very, very quickly.  Once you see a mouse, there are many others nearby.  And they leave droppings all over the place.

There were at least two or three of you that kept harping on me and said that I was crazy because the reports you had read only said that they found some evidence outside of the main house and along near other buildings.

The door was left open; the style of house was open to outside access; Betsy was a 65 year old woman caring for a 95 year old man with dementia. They had called pest control/maintenance and that is who found them a few weeks later.

Sometimes on dcum, you have to believe the posters that say they know this crap, no matter how badly you want to believe that an icon like Gene was living in a dirty, rat infested home.  He's a person, and maybe cleanliness was not their thing.

Some of you have posted the articles. I am reposting here:  https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-property-020726959.html[/quote]
However… from that article:
“The feces were found in two small homes, three sheds, three garages and two vehicles, per the outlet.

Rodent activity was also found in three detached garages.

[b]The public health department determined that the pair’s main house showed no signs of infestation.[/b]

So it’s as those posters were saying.[/quote]Nope-- you are wrong. Again, mice just do not work that way.  She did not get Hantavirus from walking outside of the main house each day for weeks on end.  She got it by driving around in her car, and I'm certain there were mice in that house.  She probably cleaned up after them because with the doors kept open, there is just no way.  Smart people and people who have had mice know this, but we will let that charade continue.

Also note that "found no evidence of" is not the same as "there were none there."  They just didn't observe any at the time of their investigation, which goes to show that all of the others observed were out in the open!  Imagine finding live and dead mice in the cars!

Bottom line is that the property will have to be condemned or will sell at far below value if anyone wants to purchase it with a known health hazard that is deadly.  That's sad. Many pest control companies could have helped a bit more. The problem with the mice in many ways was the property architecture and location.[/quote]

RATS
Was it mice or rats?[/quote][/quote]

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