In Vn everyone ran into bunkers, made mostly of sandbags, during rocket attacks?mortar attacks. These bunkers were nesting sites for rats and the continual pounding and thumping crazed them so much they attacked the the habituees taking cover. One of the EOD guys brought peanut butter and electric blasting caps with him and when a rat got the peanut butter, he’d set off the blasting cap. He finally decided to wipe them out and put a softball size peanut butter with C4 in the middle out, the rat grabbed it, ran into the hole with wire snaking out. When the wire quit moving he touched it off and destroyed the whole side wall of the bunker. My ears were ringing as we stumbled out, dazed. “Think you used enough C4, Sparky?”
The most fun shooting in my life was at night in the city dump where I went to college - shooting rats with a .22 pistol! We could spend hours in the moonlight picking them off as they would scurry on well-worn paths (a “run”) between piles of trash.
Yes, one had to deal initially with the stench of the dump, but thankfully the olefactory nerves desensitize to a smell after prolonged exposure......
It was so much fun, once we started, we never wanted to leave - there is immense satisfaction hitting your evil target and watching the beast die - all the while knowing that you are doing a good deed by ridding the world of one more evil pest.
But one time I almost shot my foot when I was crossing a run and a whole pack came out of a pile of trash, and seeing my leg thinking it was simply a pile of trash to be climbed! Never put your foot in the middle of a run!
The new “roof rabbit”.
Best rat movie ever.....
“Of Unknown Origin” (1983)
Really worth a look
That’s not a rat. Someone killed Lassie.
Meh. Standard pitchfork isn’t as wide as it appears in the pic. Neither is the scraper the first rat is on. Those pictures have an odd forced perspective. I dare say they’re barely bigger than normal rats, if any bigger at all.
Two legged or four?