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Giant rat caught, killed with pitchfork
upi ^ | Aug. 27, 2011

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.


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals
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To: mkmensinger
ROUS's. Rodents of Unusual Size.

:-O

41 posted on 08/28/2011 10:16:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Forget a third party. We need a second one.)
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To: kaylar
Hadn't heard of it before. Sounds like my type of Saturday afternoon cheeseball flick. Gonna have to check out Deadly Eyes... Dachshunds in rat suits and Scatman Crothers. What's not to like?
42 posted on 08/28/2011 10:24:01 AM PDT by AHerald ("Do not fear, only believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: Cheetahcat
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 !

43 posted on 08/28/2011 10:25:02 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

“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!


44 posted on 08/28/2011 10:26:01 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Carnival commie side show, started November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: mewzilla

Rat tart, anyone? :-)


45 posted on 08/28/2011 10:30:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Forget a third party. We need a second one.)
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To: aposiopetic; GOP Poet

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


46 posted on 08/28/2011 10:34:19 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: varyouga

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.


47 posted on 08/28/2011 10:39:41 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Chode

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.


48 posted on 08/28/2011 10:50:57 AM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

did the exterminator kill the rats, or did you just weld the door shut?.. Threw in two Willy Pete’s.


49 posted on 08/28/2011 10:52:25 AM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: Safetgiver
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
50 posted on 08/28/2011 10:58:03 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: JoeProBono

Oh Rat farts!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYbUx6wZ7z4


51 posted on 08/28/2011 11:01:51 AM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: varyouga

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....


52 posted on 08/28/2011 11:03:07 AM PDT by midnightcat
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To: Chode

Sorry, I didn’t understand. during the 70’s I was hiding behind banana trees, looking to get home.


53 posted on 08/28/2011 11:05:19 AM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: JoeProBono

“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.


54 posted on 08/28/2011 11:13:38 AM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: JoeProBono

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!


55 posted on 08/28/2011 11:15:46 AM PDT by Thombo2
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To: eartrumpet

56 posted on 08/28/2011 11:16:54 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
One less vote for the Democrats. Get more Cats/ Eat more Kimchi.
57 posted on 08/28/2011 11:18:34 AM PDT by BooBoo1000 ("IF YOU DON'T HOLD IT, YOU DON'T OWN IT" ( Wise old Gold Bug))
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To: JoeProBono

wow, that thing is as big as a cat! Poor ratty...


58 posted on 08/28/2011 11:19:01 AM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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To: Lady Lucky

59 posted on 08/28/2011 11:31:31 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: fireman15

60 posted on 08/28/2011 11:34:17 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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