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 am LMAO...thanks for the laughs!
You are cracking me up with these! This thread is brilliant.
Mikey Moore bump.
Yes but I didn't want to put a huge picture on here. Shrug. I'll delete it.
Dang these threads are fun!
These are pretty good. Funny how certain images lend themselves to photoshop riffing.
“Huge pictures” are not a problem if you just don’t size them, since most browsers will automatically re-size them to the window. Then all you have to do is click the upsize arrow to see the original picture.
It's not the viewable size, and even if it were, I could add height and width tags. It's the bandwidth. No worries. I've 404'd the picture.
That works well!
It shrinks to the window, but you only have to move the cursor to the lower right and the upsizing arrow appears to click.
These are all great!! LMAO
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.
Have you seen this thread? Some GREAT Photoshop stuff here... ;-)
On looter/pres guy it would be cute to have the rat holding a tiny bottle of Heineken...
But then I’m not the photoshopper... ;-)
Thanks for the ping...
Thanks!
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