Posted on 07/09/2007 9:56:37 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
BEIJING - People living in communities surrounding a large shallow lake have been overrun by field mice after floodwaters drove the rodents out of islands on the lake, state media reported Monday.
The mouse invasion began on June 23 when the Yangtze River flooded, raising the water level in central China's Dongting Lake and submerging mouse holes on lake islands, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Now, an estimated 2 billion mice are ravaging crops in 22 counties around the lake, and authorities were rushing to construct walls and ditches to keep the rodents out. Residents have killed more than 2.3 million field mice — or 90 tons of the rodents, Xinhua said.
In Hunan province's Yiyang County, a ditch along the lakeshore was filled with mice. Residents were using clubs and shovels to beat them to death, while others scooped the furry animals out using fishing nets.
Mice have already damaged dikes and ruined crops in areas where authorities were slow to build walls and ditches, Xinhua said.
The rodent problem was expected to worsen as more floods were forecast for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake.
Mouse flavored toothpaste? Tom’s of Maine toothpaste to be renamed Tom & Jerry’s.
watch out for those Kung Pao bits of meat
Oh yuk.
Who is king of all the mice?
Mouse Tse Tung!
Check out the book “KING RAT” by James Clavell.
This is a provoking autobiographical novel by the reknown author.
Clavell was a POW in WWII and was held by the Japanese at the Changi prison on the eastern end of Singapore island as described in the novel.
To these POW’s rodent meat was just protein.
Quick, round up the feral cats and ship them to China. Put a price of $50 each on them and it’s win-win-win!
Protein!
1 Billion Chinese + 2 Billion mice = Free snack for everyone.
At 2 cubic inches per mouse, that is a square mile two inches deep in mice.
That’s nuthin — we are inundated with RATS in Washington!
They need cats, and hawks.
That’s what they get for eating all their cats.
They eat cats there....and what have you against poor lonely deserted feral cats? :)
Feed them that cat food they tried selling to us.......
ROFLMAO!!
This problem is a metaphor for our own illegal immigration issue.
Add this to the ravages that global climate change is bringing; play more music now, mr Piper, play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LMxhc8WwGU
Soon to be the second worst.
Waitress!...there’s a mouse tail in my soup!
Finally, the bartender can't stand it anymore. "We don't see many Chinese mice in here," he says.
"And with this atmosphere of hedonistic individualism capitalistically exploiting the labor of the masses and wasting the people's agricultural resources," say the Chinese mice, "you won't see many more."
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