The moonbats running New York have figured out how to solve the city’s rat infestation. It is the same solution their comrades in Sacramento applied to California’s shoplifting epidemic. They fine people for reporting the problem:

Esther D’Alia, 91, has lived in her house in Maspeth [Queens] for over 65 years.

After noticing rats burrowing in her yard last summer, she called 311 to report them.

The response from municipal bureaucrats was two $300 summonses.

This came on top of what she had already paid exterminators in an attempt to solve a problem evidently caused by the roots of city trees creating holes in concrete.

She wants her $600 back from the city. Maybe should have taken the Eric Adams approach to being fined over rats — refuse to pay.

What NYC needs now is a public awareness campaign encouraging people to report rats every time they see them. Fining all of them could raise enough money to finance the lavish benefits the sanctuary city provides to illegal aliens.

On a tip from Anonymous.