City officers have spent thousands and thousands of {dollars} attempting to cull the rat inhabitants. (Representational)

New York:

If you’re “somewhat bloodthirsty” and keen to contemplate “wholesale slaughter” of vermin you then is perhaps the perfect candidate to turn into New York City’s new rat czar.

Mayor Eric Adams’s administration on Wednesday posted the job itemizing for Director of Rodent Mitigation, a place that pays between $120,000 and $170,000 a yr.

“Do you have what it takes to do the impossible?” asks the advert, which seeks somebody with a “virulent vehemence for vermin” and a “general aura of badassery.”

A bachelor’s diploma is a should, as is expertise in city planning, undertaking administration or authorities, and proficiency in spreadsheets.

But above all of the profitable candidate should possess “the drive, determination and killer instinct needed to fight the real enemy — New York City’s relentless rat population.”

Rats are one of many extra unappealing elements of life in America’s largest metropolis, usually seen scurrying between subway tracks and sniffing round rubbish baggage.

Legend has it that there are as many rats as people — round 9 million — though that determine has been debunked as a fantasy by an area statistician.

English novelist Charles Dickens complained in regards to the rodents when he visited New York in 1842.

And a rat shot to web stardom in 2015 when it was filmed strolling down the steps of a subway station with a slice of pizza in its mouth.

City officers have spent thousands and thousands of {dollars} attempting to cull the rat inhabitants over time, deploying the whole lot from rodent contraception to vermin-proof trash cans.

During a stomach-turning presentation in 2019, Adams, then Brooklyn borough president, unveiled a machine that drowned the rats in a pool of alcohol-based liquid.

The metropolis additionally runs a “Rat Academy,” the place native residents can study rodent prevention strategies.

The rats proceed to run rampant, nonetheless.

Between January and September this yr, greater than 21,500 sightings have been reported to the town’s hotline, up from round 18,000 for a similar interval final yr, in response to native reviews.

“There’s NOTHING I hate more than rats,” Mayor Adams tweeted Thursday, including that for somebody “your dream job awaits.”

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