Posted on 10/28/2009 9:50:50 AM PDT by Daffynition
Reader Wayne sent us this photograph and explains, "I was walking along and texting. Not really paying that much attention. Then something caught my eye. I thought I was about to step in dog shit, but quickly realized it was a rat stuck in the sidewalk. A big rat. It had tried to squeeze through a crack in the sidewalk and failed."
Update: Another reader created the second photograph in the gallery, adding, "hopefully this makes it a little better!"
We are still awaiting a reply from Wayne to ask if he tried to help the little guy (or gal) out, where it was located and whether we needed to send out a rescue squad. And if you want to pass the time with some Photoshopped sad rat images... well, you can send them to tips@gothamist.com and we'll compile them into a gallery later.
Update 7:50 p.m.: We've added some of the rat-in-sidewalk Photoshops—if you're not doing anything this Friday night, send 'em our way!
Update 10/24: More Photoshopped Sad Rat photographs here, plus a poll asking what you would do if you saw a rat emerging from a sidewalk. And Wayne got back to our questions. He says, "It was on my block on the Upper West Side. 82nd Street between CPW and Columbus. I thought it was alive, but after getting up the nerve to poke it with a (long) stick, I realized he was dead. I did what any wonderful caring masculine New Yorker would do, I told the doorman about it and ran off to work. That night the sidewalk with spic and span. I hear the Eulogy was beautiful and moved some to tears."
I have kids and chickens.
And now a 7 foot boa constrictor.
Thanks for the tip!
When fishing in this area from a boat, casting towaqrd shore in secluded inlets on the lake, it is wise to carry a revolver with snake shot in it ... moccasins like to drop down into boats from overhanging trees when they smell bait and fish in the ‘well’. I’ve seen them swim to a boat trying to get in, too!
Too much. LOL.
I have a sore throat, so I am going to be a little for a few days.
This meme took off fast.
OMG! I just realized you shopped Richard Gere! I didn’t recognize it at first!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You do need to educate yourself about what snakes are dangerous, but geez, some people here sound like animal rights wackos.
The second snake that I killed was in a bush by my front door. It tried to get away by slithering under the concrete. Lucky for me, I grabbed ahold of it’s tail and, while stomping on the snake one foot size at a time, I dragged the snake out from under the concrete and, as I pulled a little more out, I stomped on it again and again.
It was a very colorful snake, but the head was so smashed I couldn’t tell the shape.
I can’t fool with snakes.
I read somewhere that if you put a couple of mothballs here and there, every four or five feet, the smell will chase away any and all snakes. I hope this is true.
I call mouse...... whitefooted to be specific
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