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Tehran Battles Plague of 'Mutant' Giant Rats with Army Snipers
International Business Times ^
| February 20, 2013
| Umberto Bacchi:
Posted on 03/03/2013 2:47:21 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Tehran Battles Plague of 'Mutant' Giant Rats with Army Snipers
Tehran, the capital of Iran, is battling an invasion of "genetically mutated" giant rats.
Iran has sent in sniper teams to clear Tehran's streets from the massive rodents weighting up to five kilos plaguing 26 district of the Iranian capital, the city's environmental agency said.
"They seem to have had a genetic mutation, probably as a result of radiations and the chemical used on them," Ismail Kahram, Teheran city council environment adviser and university professor Ismail Kahram told Qudsonline.ir.
"They are now bigger and look different. These are changes that normally take millions of years of evolution. They have jumped from 60 grams to five kilos, and cats are now smaller than them."
The "mutated rats" have been running rampant in the capital, as cats are scared off by their giant size and traditional poison appear to have no effect on them.
To stop them storming of restaurants' backyards and scavenging public waste containers, the council has deployed ten snipers teams armed with infra-red sighted rifles.
"We use chemical poisons to kill the rats during the day and the snipers at night, so it has become a 24/7 war," the head of the environment agency, Mohammad Hadi Heydarzadeh, said.
Rats' carcasses are burnt or buried in lime.
So far 2,205 rats have been shot dead, but the war is far to be won and the council is planning to bring the snipers team up to 40.
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I'm siding with Team Rat in this war ...
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posted on
03/03/2013 2:48:32 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
I’m smelling a “BS” story here....need more sources and pictures!
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posted on
03/03/2013 2:51:50 PM PST
by
mdmathis6
(Rest assured, Mankind is loved....both completely and severely!)
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
03/03/2013 2:51:50 PM PST
by
Tzimisce
(The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
To: DogByte6RER
Giant rats? Hmmmm, anybody seen Bloomberg this week?
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posted on
03/03/2013 2:56:14 PM PST
by
West Texas Chuck
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
To: DogByte6RER
On the other hand, Egyptian lands are currently being inundated with millions of locusts, genetically mutated rats are attacking Tehran....has God begun to act?
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posted on
03/03/2013 2:58:53 PM PST
by
mdmathis6
(Rest assured, Mankind is loved....both completely and severely!)
To: mdmathis6
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:02:27 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
I grew up across the street from a professional chemist who went to India to teach villages how to eliminate rats totally using a system of 55 gallon drums and bait to get the rats to drown themselves.
I use the same system in my basement using 5 gallon buckets to eliminate mice from my house. It works great.
Regardless of the size of the rodent, the system works. Ya'll just need a bigger bucket for bigger rats.
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:09:58 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Here once the embattled farmers stood... And fired the shot heard round the world.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:10:22 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
got a drawing for the rest of us?
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:12:40 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(200 million unarmed people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Explain the system we need help.
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:14:43 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:20:16 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(I learned everything I needed to know about racism from Colin Powell)
To: DogByte6RER
I read about a method of rodent control that used birth control chemicals, rather than poison. With poison, you kill them one at a time. With birth control chemistry, you wipe out generations.
Of course, I wouldn’t tell the Iranian Rat-in-Chief, Ahmadi-Nejad.
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:21:08 PM PST
by
Westbrook
(Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
To: DogByte6RER
The "mutated rats" have been running rampant in the capital, as cats are scared off by their giant size Rats, rats, rats
They fought the dogs
And killed the cats.
Who ya gonna call ... ?
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:23:04 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: mdmathis6
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:31:28 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(The monsters are due on Maple Street)
To: DogByte6RER
Some of our Rats have really big mouths:
...and some are really odd:
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:34:41 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
To: DogByte6RER
They’re killing Splinter?
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:46:30 PM PST
by
Ellendra
(http://www.ustrendy.com/ellendra-nauriel/portfolio/18423/concealed-couture/)
To: freedumb2003
Sould we believe even THAT? (I don’t think so!!!)
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:51:39 PM PST
by
Monkey Face
(There is no "Chocoholics Anonymous" because no one wants to quit. ~~ Shoe)
To: Ellendra
Sounds like it would be fun ... I have a Henry repeating lever rifle that will shoot 50 gr subsonic .22 lr with a high degree of accuracy. Give me some night vision equipment and turn me loose on them thar rats!
All that aside, this sounds like training their snipers for night wet work more than eliminating the rats.
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:56:54 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
To: COBOL2Java
Oh, doggies! Them are some really skeery RATS!
(But Iran embraces them....so who ya gonna call?”
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:57:36 PM PST
by
Monkey Face
(There is no "Chocoholics Anonymous" because no one wants to quit. ~~ Shoe)
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