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.
Swedes are such wussies. Here in America we would have used it for target practice.
UFO?
Those are listed as extinct in the wild in Sweden. And the tail of the coypu would be a lot thicker than on that rat. Not to mention that the average length of coypu is about two feet from head to tail, which is somewhat larger than that rat.
i’m not overjoyed at having to kill things, but wild, disease-carrying vermin in the house is a safety and sanitary issue. for pets and people. i bury mice and chipmunks the domestic cats from my neighbors torture and kill. that said i take proactive steps to prevent them from getting into my garage and house.
Nope. It’s a rat.
In North Korea, that would be quite a dinner!
Decades ago, before Point State Park had been developed where the Monongahela and Allegheny meet to form the Ohio, my friends and I used to hang out there and wade in the water. It was just dirt and tall grass. The place had been used as a dumping ground for the Pittsburgh restaurants.
Home to river rats, the BIGGEST rats I have ever seen, easily over 20" including tail.
Lived in New Jersey and found a dead critter in the garage- was probably 14-16 inches long body - hung over the spade shovel. I showed my landlord thinking it was a muskrat (I’m from the Midwest). He laughed. “No - that’s a big a$$ Norway Rat!”
They should set some of those traps around Congress.
That looks like white meat.
Everybody knows rats are dark meat. That’s why nobody wants to eat’em/ :)
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?
See the løveli lakes
The wonderful telephøne system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic møøse and the enormøus rats.
I’m good. I didn’t notice the UFO at all. ;-)
Check Congress, some are pretty fat. Must be from feeding at the hog trough.
If they count the tail, I’ve seen a lot of them in the skid row area of Los Angeles that were over 2 feet.
Rats! rats! rats!
They fought the dogs
And killed the cats.
In Japan it would be known as Sushi!
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