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."
Has the original been posted on FARK.com yet?
WHAT? Kill a child like a python? Just don’t know where to start with all that.
5’ is not nearly big enough to pose a constricting risk, even to a child.
Even my own ‘big boy’, currently at 7 1/2’ is not a risk. The snake must be big enough and the ‘prey’ small enough, that the snake sees it is a food item. No small child is going to be a food item for a 5’ snake.
Sorry, no need for killing, or unfounded hysteria here.
LOL
WIN
BWAHAHAHAHA!!
This is sooo damn funny!!!
This thread needs you guys.
Photoshop threads are always the best. There are some very talented shoppers around here, and with a wicked sense of humor.
It’s because there is an obesity problem in the rat population. We need a government program and stimulus for that too /s
LMAO
Instant classic...
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Bookmark this thread....I sense a classic in the making.
That snake was scary.
It had mad it’s way onto a playground and who knew who the snake may eventually have hurt. Or even killed! How can you tell which snakes are poisonous and which ones aren’t? I can’t.
Why did the snake coil up when I started throwing rocks at it? If not to strike at me?
My heart was pounding a million miles an hour while I was tossing big stones at that snake!
Snakes aren’t scarey. The numbers of venous versus non venomous are low. It was probably not. A little education would go a long way!
Why did it coil up when you started throwing rocks?!? Seriesly? Why did a HUGE 100-200 pound person start throwing rocks at a small 1 pound animal, if not to display irrational fear?
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