Posted on 09/16/2020 2:21:09 PM PDT by packrat35
A "GIANT" rat "big enough for a Sunday roast" has sparked horror on social media after it was found in London.
The rat was spotted in an alley in Camden, north London, at the weekend and a picture of the creature was posted on Facebook by LJ Bowen.
She wrote that the rat looked like a capybara, the largest living rodent in the world - which can grow to 4ft-long, 2ft-high and weigh up to 10 stone - and is native to South America.
More than 100 people commented on the snap after it was shared to Facebook.
One person wrote that it was "so big" you could serve it up as a Sunday roast.
Tom Neal wrote: “There is enough meat on that to get a Sunday roast out of it.”
John Stokes wrote: “Looks like a wild boar”, while another posted: “Omg! That thing is huge!!!!”
Craig Henry wrote: “Is he dead or is he sleeping? I don’t want to be there if he wakes up - he’d eat me for lunch.”
The large appearance of the rat may be due to the angle of the photo when it was taken.
Britain was overrun with giant rats during the coronavirus lockdown as the rodents invaded homes and cars.
With restaurants and cafes closed in urban areas, the disease-ridden vermin spread into the suburbs in the pursuit of food.
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Is that it? For real???! Wow..
Communist Chinese are getting hungry over that picture.
We just call them BLM/Antifa
Dayum!
Sounds like a hit in the ‘hoods.
Saw much larger rats in Haifa Israel in 1987.
That grainery port in Haifa has rats as big around as a Collie dog just with not quite as large legs.
Rats apparently put on size just like stock animals when they eat raw grain.
I was in the Navy and my ship was berthed at the pier.
The normal metal rat guards we use to keep vermin from crawling up the ropes (lines) that we tie the ship to the pier...those rat guards were not big enough to keep the rats away.
We had to post extra sailors on watch at each line to.keep.them off.
Might have slaughtered one of the rats with a stick clean I returned from a night of drinking.
They need to remake that movie. Demolition Man is one of my favorites.
I remember reading a book by a journalist who was in Paris during the siege (Franco-Prussian War). He described a dinner party where the main course was a large roasted rat surrounded by roasted mice.
You first.....
They need to spread the rumor that these rats are cross bred with pigs and are filling the streets with pig creatures in all of the UK.
I knew that would show up here.
I saw one the size of a cat in D.C.
Disease ridden!?
I’ll have them know that NYC’s Health Commissioner once said that the furry little dears are NOT a health risk!
So there!
Hope that wasn’t one of Mrs. Frisby’s friends...
Anybody seen Schumer lately?
Rat’s probably 1/3 the size it looks. The jaws on that clamp are greatly oversized.
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