Maddie McFolley (pictured), who has lived in her Detroit home since 1958 is refusing to move out even though rats have invaded her living space by the droves. The 88-year-old grandmother, who has even turned a deaf ear to family member's pleas for her to abandon her now ramshackled home is prayerful, her rat infestation worries will soon be just a bad memory, as soon as the row of adjacent homes are demolished this summer reports Fox 2 News.
McFolley's rat woes intensified this past winter when the rodents voraciously chewed through her cement walls, feasted in her kitchen and even gnawed right through the wires in her stove. According to her unidentified granddaughter, the unwelcomed critters are such a menace, they have literally taken over her grandmother's home from top to bottom.
Family members have tried to help McFolley by visiting her home and getting rid of the dead rats that have created an unbearable and indescribable stench. McFolley herself has tried to strategically place poisonous traps throughout the home in an effort to minimize the problem but to no avail, as the vile visitors just seem to keep multiplying. However despite the infestation, McFolley is staying put, expressing to Fox News 2 how much she values her independence, "I don't have no choice, I love to be in my own place, my own home."
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2 comments:
Fighting for independence, but how can she put up with the rats?I'd be afraid to go to sleep at night.
She's in trouble and she's not going to come out of it well, I'm afraid.
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