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To: Scrapps who wrote (6478)	10/8/1997 10:59:00 PM
From: Jeffery E. Forrest	of 22053

Rat-infested Tampa house demolished TAMPA, Fla (Reuter) - A house infested with more than 1,000 rats was demolished Wednesday despite pleas from its owners to spare some of the rats' lives. The house, owned and occupied by a 76-year-old woman and her 54-year-old daughter, was drawn to the attention of city officials after neighbors complained of a terrible smell. Inspectors arrived in late August and discovered a house filled with garbage and cat food and infested with rats. The city ordered the women to leave. Exterminators tried to kill as many rats as possible by covering the three-bedroom house with a large tent and filling it with poison gas before demolishing the home. City officials said they had to refuse the owners' plea for more time to remove the rats, and felt the house was such a health threat that immediate action was needed. ''To be honest, we didn't notice them, they were in boxes that we had stored,'' Vivian Bryant, the daughter, reportedly said. ''We weren't really that aware of it except when summer started.'' Bryant apparently expressed concern about the fate of baby rats. When someone showed police officer Susan Sexton a garbage can with a litter of rats inside, Bryant begged Sexton ''please dont kill them, they're just babies,'' the officer told The Saint Petersburg Times.

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