Posted on 03/26/2014 9:59:40 PM PDT by EinNYC
Forget Godzilla — this monster is real.
A Swedish family recoiled in terror when their trap did not immediately kill a 16-inch rat scurrying around their kitchen.
The gargantuan rodent, metal clasped tightly around its neck, powered through the pain and scampered off behind Signe Bengtsson-Korsas' kitchen cabinets, The Sun reported.
"It was a monster, the worst thing I have ever seen," she told the British tabloid.
Her husband, Erik, added, "The rat was so big it did not die."
Eventually the squeaking stopped.
The nearly invincible beast was found lifeless behind their dishwasher.
"In the end we managed to find it dead, it had slowly strangled," Erik said. "Then we felt a bit sorry for it."
Erik Bengtsson-Korsas could not believe the size of the rat that got into their home outside Stockholm. Justus Bengtsson-Korsås via Facebook Erik Bengtsson-Korsas could not believe the size of the rat that got into his family's home outside Stockholm.
The family told The Sun that pest control workers showed up a few hours earlier to set up the deadly trap at their home in Solna, a suburb of Stockholm.
The rat had already wreaked havoc on their home. At one point the rodent managed to gnaw through a pipe and flood the kitchen.
They initially thought a mouse made it in when they saw their pet cat Enoch standing guard in the pantry and noticed his predatory instincts rising up.
Instead, they found the gigantic rat. It darted out and startled Bengtsson-Korsas when she went to empty the trash. She and her cat ran for the hills.
"We were all terrified, I thought it was going to bite my toes," her son Justus told The Sun.
The humans say they think that the rat got into the household through a ventilation pipe, which has since been blocked off with brick.
And if you hold it even closer to the camera it looks even bigger. I used to do that with fish for the kids to make em look bigger.
Or the 22lb cat that terrorized the family that was in the news earlier.
PING
That’s what the 2A is for.
No, no, it's OK - it's sitting on top of that hot radiator....
Maybe it's a cat...
By the time I was five I knew how to set traps by 8 I would of had a 22 in my hands.
The different between city folks and farm folks.
Being raise on a farm we knew how to take care of varmints.
I used to put sticky traps in my garage to stop little critters from getting in the house. One morning I found a rat’s leg on one. Just the leg. Must’ve chewed it off to get away from the trap.
Damn there for a minute I thought that mac daddy had somehow snuck into Sweden unnoticed and got caught.
Could be...that one looks just like the one I see in the food I put out for the other neighborhood cats every night.
Are they in the market for a 22# cat?
No, Ma'am, I will concede that the body looks somewhat similar, the face does not. Take if from someone who, with Grandpa, was a Master Hunter of possums in his youth.
When I was a kid on the farm we got an infestation of Norway Rats. Even the mean ass farm toms wouldn’t mess with them. We dispatched them with a 22 caliber solution.
My first thought as well, a small possum.
I live in the central valley and we have huge rats outside. Here they are called Tree Rats cause they travel via the trees, fences, etc. DCon works well. ;)
“DCon works well.”
Better buy a lifetime supply, it being outlawed!
Birds and animals eat the dead so it’s going to be illegal.
The thought of mixing that quote with your comment:
They should set some of those traps around Congress.
... made me smile. I'm going to go pray for forgiveness now.
Is his last name “Roberts?”
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