It's finally happened

In the 1990's a druggie family with several kids was in Orange Country, CA living out of their station wagon. While the parents were sleeping or passed out, a big forest rat that lived under the back seat chewed off the baby's hand. They had taken the rat in as a "pet" while living in a campground in the SoCal mountains. I saw similar families all the time in OC, begging for "food" on street corners with their little tow-haired kids beside them for sympathy.

What irks me is when newspapers fault property owners for infestations of insects and rodents in their rentals. Who feeds the critters?