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Rhiannon12866

(204,856 posts)
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 02:01 AM Jul 2019

Government Housing Structure Infested with Criminals and Rats

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—A government-subsidized housing structure has fallen into a dangerous state and has become thoroughly infested with criminals and rats, a leading congressman warned on Saturday.

The building has become “the territory of vicious gangsters who roam freely and consider themselves above the law,” Representative Elijah Cummings, a Democrat of Maryland, said.

The congressman added that notorious gang members took over the housing facility in early 2017 and have “spread terror and despair” there ever since.

“People are scared to be there,” Cummings said. “Hundreds have fled.”

He said that the horrific conditions within the housing complex are one of the nation’s worst-kept secrets. “Many of the people who have fled over the past two years have written books about it,” he said. “But the criminals continue to run wild.”

The congressman said that he was speaking out for the benefit of the residents in his Baltimore, Maryland, district. “I am alarmed that the nation’s worst breeding ground for crime is less than fifty miles from Baltimore,” he said.


Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/government-housing-structure-infested-with-criminals-and-rats



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Government Housing Structure Infested with Criminals and Rats (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jul 2019 OP
K & R SunSeeker Jul 2019 #1
More turth than sarcasm.... ProudMNDemocrat Jul 2019 #2
I've thought of that, too Rhiannon12866 Jul 2019 #3
They need to exit OUR WH! Dennis Donovan Jul 2019 #4

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,731 posts)
2. More turth than sarcasm....
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 02:20 AM
Jul 2019

I keep saying the White House will need a thorough cleaning and fumigating once the Trumps leave.

Rhiannon12866

(204,856 posts)
3. I've thought of that, too
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 02:54 AM
Jul 2019

And he's sure let some pretty despicable characters in there - like the Russians with no American press allowed.

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