tooo funny... the cat/rat was a commercial back in the 70's about NYC super rats and shows one standing on a chair eating off of a plate on the dinner table with the sound bite asking the question
Posted on 08/28/2011 8:53:53 AM PDT by JoeProBono
NEW YORK, - A city housing worker says he bagged a 3-foot rat with a pitchfork at a New York apartment complex.
Jose Rivera, 48, told the New York Daily News that two other giant rats escaped.
"I hit it one time and it was still moving," Rivera said of the rat he stabbed at Marcy Houses. "I hit it another time and that's when it died. I'm not scared of rats but I was scared of being bitten."
Naomi Colon, head of the apartment complex's tenant association, told the Daily News huge rats have been sighted there for at least six years.
"The residents have told me that they've seen it running around with other rats," she said.
Animal experts said based on a photo of the dead rodent -- about 3 feet long from its nose to the tip of its tail -- it was a Gambian pouched rat, often kept as a pet, although imports have been outlawed for several years.
Paul Calle of the Wildlife Conservation Society said the Gambian rat can't reproduce with other species of rats because they are from a different genus.
The size of the Gambian rat has Marcy House residents unnerved.
"Even the cats are afraid of the rats. They get together and gang up on the cats," Stephanie Davis told the newspaper.
:-O
Fear not, ACORN will ensure that he will still be able to vote - several times.
FUBO GTFO !
“Looks like a Obama supporter that will not make 2012.
Fear not, ACORN will ensure that he will still be able to vote - several times.
FUBO GTFO !”
Well Said!
Rat tart, anyone? :-)
Hope you don’t mind, had to ping you with this one.
You’ve got me studying headlines now.
This is one we won’t see, comma or not, in the NYT.
Cheers,
FW
too bad you didnt have any frag grenades or some WP. I hate rats. We had a problem when I was young with the darn things.
If one ever got into my house now, the 12 gauge would be called in and I dont care who calls the cops.
anybody remember Does your child know the difference between a cat... and a rat??? ... Shamefully I will relate this: My25 pound black cat, Rummy, got loose one night just about dusk. The l’il bastard usually comes right back. About two hours into nightime, I saw something black on the back porch (the light distorts stuff), and said “ Come here you little shiitehead” and reached down to pick him up by the scruff of the neck. Was a skunk that I threw about 25 feet. As soon as the skunk was over the hedge, Rummy ran in the door.
did the exterminator kill the rats, or did you just weld the door shut?.. Threw in two Willy Pete’s.
tooo funny... the cat/rat was a commercial back in the 70's about NYC super rats and shows one standing on a chair eating off of a plate on the dinner table with the sound bite asking the question
now that is a memory you will never forget! I always thought it would be kind of cool to go into an a really old building/house and discover something interesting and unknown inside. But not a cellar full of rats....
Sorry, I didn’t understand. during the 70’s I was hiding behind banana trees, looking to get home.
“NEW YORK, - A city housing worker says he bagged a 3-foot rat with a pitchfork at a New York apartment complex. “
Terrifying. Giant rats wielding pitchforks.
Thanx for the article/pic.I’d never heard of them-assumed it was a joke.Wikipedia has more info-they get up to 10-15lbs.Invasive species-have been spotted in Fla Keys and NY.People keep them as pets!
wow, that thing is as big as a cat! Poor ratty...
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