I live in the Brighton neighborhood, not far from where current news claims these beasts are now taking over. Boston has a gnarly history with rat infestation, a 1989 TIME magazine article reads
"The Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus), which pervades Boston and most American urban areas, is a formidable creature. It has gnawing teeth and jaw muscles that bite with the force of 12 tons per inch -- on a par with a shark. It will eat almost anything, and has been known to attack human babies... Many Bostonians are skeptical that mere mortals can defeat the rats. They may be right. Jackson found that the rodents flourished during ten years of atomic testing on Eniwetok atoll in the Marshall Islands."WHAT!! They survived THIS?