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."
That one is really cool!
Good one!
T%hat is so disturbing on several levels, not the least of which is the reality that you would even have such a photo stored for posting ... even if it’s just the link you have stored!
HAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHA!
Brilliant!
Apt!
Pool bars aren’t that unusual.
That’s either an awfully small dog, or one big rat!
ROTFLMAO thread !!!
Thanks Daffy.......awesome !!!
Way too funny.
THE SADDEST THING EVER
Wrong. The saddest thing ever (animal related) was when my wife and I took our kids to the beach. We backed our car out of the garage, and closed the garage door with our remote. Flash forward 5 hours. We pull into the driveway, and see our cat’s head and front legs sticking out from bottom of the garage door. This was on a Saturday, in an enclosed community in Florida. People walked around our neighborhood all day long, and we were at the horseshoe end of a curve. Anybody driving or walking down the street would have seen our cat squished beneath the door. I remember telling our kids (6 & 8) to “close your eyes!” as we pulled into the drive. We had a kitty funeral in the backyard 30 minutes later. It was “THE SADDEST THING EVER.”
Sublime.
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