Clementi HDB Unit Infested With Rats; Neighbour Caught & Killed 27 Rats In 9 Months

Ratatouille might’ve deceived the entire globe into thinking that rodents are cute, but let’s face it:

A rat infestation might be uber adorable in the animation, but it would be downright catastrophic in real life.

Because see, rats don’t exactly cook in real life. They also don’t hold little cheese parties in mouse holes, and don’t actually behave like little tots in preschool. Fact is; rats are pests, and as the following article headline serves to show…

They could be a real handful for the poor people involved.

Clementi HDB Unit Infested With Rats; Neighbour Caught & Killed 27 Rats In 9 Months

According to AsiaOne, a rat infestation has begun in an HDB block along Clementi Avenue 5, and from the looks of it, it doesn’t seem to be dying down anytime soon.

Believed to have commenced as far back as February 2019, residents of the HDB block have accused one particular unit on the fourth storey as the source of the pests.

According to them, the owner had been filling up the corridor with miscellaneous stuff, for what’s believed to have been years.

Additionally, the unit has been emanating a particular smell so foul that neighbours on the same floor have been forced to keep their windows and doors shut.

Well, at least they haven’t been forced to call the cops. Yet.

Needless To Say; The Neighbours Have Evolved

It’s one thing to stay stagnant in peacetime.

It’s quite another to stay stagnant in a time of rabid rat infestation.

As such, it’s perhaps no surprise that the neighbours in question have evolved. Evolved to become one of the most feared professions in the world:

Expert rat exterminators.

For instance, An Mei Jia, one of the affected residents, has become a Jerry assassinator at the tender age of 70. According to an interview she had with Shin Min Daily News, she deals with the rodents by setting up rat poison, and killing them whenever she sees them.

“They scamper about in the corridor, no matter the time of day. They even run into my house at night. It’s so noisy that I can’t sleep in peace,” Tom An said in Mandarin.

To date, she’s believed to have racked up a killstreak of 27 rats. K/D: 27/0.

Sickk.

But it seems that in this time of distress, assassination techniques take many forms. Another resident, who’s known only as Lee, told 8world that she’s so afraid of the rats that she reportedly makes her footsteps louder, and ultimately jangles her keys to scare the critters off whenever she reaches home.

Sound, my friend. Always works.

Denial Of The Aforementioned Accusations

In an interview with 8world, the owner has since dismissed her neighbour’s complaints, stating that there were only “one or two” Jerries rats in her house.

The owner, who remains unnamed, also said that she does not live in the unit, and claims to have tidied up the clutter along the corridor every day.

Well, that’s interesting.

Residents have also made repeated reports to Jurong-Clementi Town Council.

The issue, however, has yet to be resolved.

One resident, known only as Luo, said the town council had previously sent a social worker to help clear the mess and talk to the homeowner. However, it wasn’t long before clutter began to gather in the corridor once again.

For the sake of everyone living in the aforementioned HDB block, we earnestly hope that the situation would clear up, if not the near future then at least the distant future. After all, the neighbours have been forced to rat out their pest of a neighbour.

Wouldn’t justify breaking the neighbourhood code if they didn’t at least get the rats out of the vicinity altogether, right?