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.
I don’t get it.
How come he wasn’t arrested for cruelty to animals?
I cannot tell you how many times I have uttered those very words.
Don’t know when I’ve seen so much hare come out in one comb.
And to think that I was hoping that someone finally got Pelosi.
LOL!
I saw one of those in The Prinncess Bride.
I guess Bunny Rake Is Not Missing anymore.
(Antique movie reference.)
There are so many ways to interpret that. Your doctor may have a treatment.
Those are the same species now being used for mine-sniffing.
Re: Hero Rats
Best man vs. rat movie ever.
That’s what I said when I killed the emperor scorpion in my Havana living room. Took me three swats with a New Balance shoe to dispatch the gruesome brute.
lmao
/johnny
http://www.tngenweb.org/tntable/possum.htm
“The Possum Cookbook”
Table of Contents:
Catching a possum
Wild Possum Kabob
Possum and Taters
Possum Pot Pie
Possum Creole
Australian Possum
Possum Stew
Texan Possum Chili
Cajun Possum Chili
Possum Tartare
Nutrition Facts
That ‘pouched’ rat looks like an oppossum to me.
About 5 years ago,I was working on a building rehab job a few blocks from the WTC. The building was mid 1800s and plans were long gone. We found a sub-sub-basement that the owner did not even know existed. It was a half-height door leading to a rickety metal stair behind piles of junk in the sub-basement. Not opened for at least 50 years.
I will remember that smell forever. When I shined a light in,the floor looked like it was moving frantically. It was wall-to-wall rats as far as you could see,their eyes reflecting off the light. Many were bigger than cats and made low-frequency growling noises.
An exterminator was called and said we were lucky to be alive opening such a door full of cornered rats. A few more minutes and they would have turned us into food.
The NYC rats are very elusive and will almost never appear within sight of humans. If you’re on one of the few dead-quiet blocks and quietly look out your window in the middle of the night,you’ll see swarms of huge rats foraging. They scatter at the slightest noise. There are many,many underground passages and chambers around NYC for them to hide.
Here is an interesting fable:
Lazamataz and a scorpion meet on the bank of a stream and Lazamataz asks the scorpion to carry him across on its back. The scorpion asks, "How do I know you won't hit me?" The scorpion says, "Because if I do hit it, I will die too."
The scorpion is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, Lazamataz starts hitting the scorpion. The scorpion feels the lewd violation, and starts to sink. Knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"
Replies Lazamataz: "It's in my nature...you knew who I was when you agreed to cross with me."
Looks like a Obama supporter that will not make 2012.
Beat me to it! :0)
“Beat me to it! :0)”
LMAO Conservative minds think alike!
Sounds like eating at a Sushi restaurant. ;-)
Catch of the Day
Very interesting story....I can imagine how scary that must’ve been. What did you do, slam the door shut real quick?
Nonsense! He can still vote!
BTW, did the exterminator kill the rats, or did you just weld the door shut?
And what do you think DemocRats will do when they have the light shined fully on them?
I swerved to avoid what I thought was a cat in the road. Afterward I realized that it was a huge rat. I did a U-turn in my 67 Ford Galaxie 500 and tried to hit it on another next pass, but it jumped out of the way at the last minute. I made a couple of more attempts before the rat took a right turn and ran up the gated road that goes to Cheney Stadium. I got out of the car as the rat trotted under the gate. My girl friend at the time got out also. I started throwing rocks at it. When I hit him with one, he turned around and charged us. My girlfriend and I had to take a few steps back, but I managed to hit him with another rock and the rat decided he'd had enough and ran up the hill toward Foss High School and took refuge in some bushes. He was a worthy adversary; I felt a little bad about harassing him.
I got it:)
anybody remember Does your child know the difference between a cat... and a rat???
“Nonsense! He can still vote!”
Good Point.
Better than Willard? Hard to imagine. Also, I never knew it was a genre.
:-O
Fear not, ACORN will ensure that he will still be able to vote - several times.
FUBO GTFO !
“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!
Rat tart, anyone? :-)
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
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.
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.
did the exterminator kill the rats, or did you just weld the door shut?.. Threw in two Willy Pete’s.
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
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