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Monster 16-inch rat terrifies Swedish family in kitchen: report
NY Daily News ^ | March 26, 2014 | Michael Walsh

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.



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Holy crumbs! I can't imagine how frightened I'd be if this monster made it into my home! Even my 2 cats would probably have way too much sense to even try and take it on.
1 posted on 03/26/2014 9:59:40 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

Was its name Ben?


2 posted on 03/26/2014 10:01:47 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: EinNYC

They sure that isn’t an opossum?


3 posted on 03/26/2014 10:02:28 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: EinNYC

The cat I had as a child would make very short work of that guy.


4 posted on 03/26/2014 10:03:54 PM PDT by varmintman
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Well, the rodent is really big, but all those electrical cords plugged into that power strip look like a fire watiting to happen to me.


5 posted on 03/26/2014 10:04:34 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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Was its name Ben?

No this was his cousin, Willard!

6 posted on 03/26/2014 10:05:32 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: EinNYC

Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.


7 posted on 03/26/2014 10:05:51 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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[ “In the end we managed to find it dead, it had slowly strangled,” Erik said. “Then we felt a bit sorry for it.” ]

And this is why the “Land of the Vikings” is not long for this world....

Bunch of European-ized panty-wastes!

Growing up on the farm my brothers cleaned up an old grainery, they went in with shovels in the morning to dig up it’s dirt floor...

By evening we had a pile of dead rats about 3ft tall....

Not a Sh!t was given for all those dead ass rats.

We never had a rat problem in that grainery again... I think they managed to get them all!


8 posted on 03/26/2014 10:05:52 PM PDT by GraceG
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Range of Virginia Opossum. As far as I know, there are no opossums in Sweden.

9 posted on 03/26/2014 10:06:30 PM PDT by EinNYC
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[ Well, the rodent is really big, but all those electrical cords plugged into that power strip look like a fire watiting to happen to me. ]

I have the perfect test for you!


10 posted on 03/26/2014 10:07:49 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG
Opossums have white fur on their faces, generally. And there aren’t any opossums living in Sweden FWICS. The brown rat, Rattus norvegicus, can reach 18 inches in length though.
11 posted on 03/26/2014 10:08:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: EinNYC

I was being sarcastic about the opossum quip, LOL


12 posted on 03/26/2014 10:09:32 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: varmintman

Too bad they didn’t have that cat that was terrorizing some other family!


13 posted on 03/26/2014 10:09:40 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: GraceG
PS. There is also one venomous snake species in Sweden, the common European adder (Vipera berus). Those can get into houses very easily through holes made by a rat that size.
14 posted on 03/26/2014 10:14:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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“blocked off with a brick”

That gave me a chuckle. Rots of ruck.


15 posted on 03/26/2014 10:15:37 PM PDT by berdie
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To: GraceG

I noticed the UFO first - Unidentified Fabulous Objects


16 posted on 03/26/2014 10:16:29 PM PDT by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: Olog-hai
Maybe they should have filmed Noah in this family's house or at least Sweden. Apparently there are all kinds of noxious fauna there.
17 posted on 03/26/2014 10:17:23 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: GraceG

My wife was watching over my shoulder. Dang right I commented on the UFO first.


18 posted on 03/26/2014 10:17:44 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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To: GraceG
They sure that isn’t an opossum?

It could be a nutria/coypu..Without seeing the front feet, it's hard to tell.

19 posted on 03/26/2014 10:20:17 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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To: GraceG

I haven’t seen post #11 yet. :-)


20 posted on 03/26/2014 10:23:06 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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