Posted on 10/28/2009 9:50:50 AM PDT by Daffynition
Reader Wayne sent us this photograph and explains, "I was walking along and texting. Not really paying that much attention. Then something caught my eye. I thought I was about to step in dog shit, but quickly realized it was a rat stuck in the sidewalk. A big rat. It had tried to squeeze through a crack in the sidewalk and failed."
Update: Another reader created the second photograph in the gallery, adding, "hopefully this makes it a little better!"
We are still awaiting a reply from Wayne to ask if he tried to help the little guy (or gal) out, where it was located and whether we needed to send out a rescue squad. And if you want to pass the time with some Photoshopped sad rat images... well, you can send them to tips@gothamist.com and we'll compile them into a gallery later.
Update 7:50 p.m.: We've added some of the rat-in-sidewalk Photoshops—if you're not doing anything this Friday night, send 'em our way!
Update 10/24: More Photoshopped Sad Rat photographs here, plus a poll asking what you would do if you saw a rat emerging from a sidewalk. And Wayne got back to our questions. He says, "It was on my block on the Upper West Side. 82nd Street between CPW and Columbus. I thought it was alive, but after getting up the nerve to poke it with a (long) stick, I realized he was dead. I did what any wonderful caring masculine New Yorker would do, I told the doorman about it and ran off to work. That night the sidewalk with spic and span. I hear the Eulogy was beautiful and moved some to tears."
Rove, you magnificent bastard!
Ok, ya got me.
Why Glenn Beck?
ROFL!
Maybe it’s the “big” interview with Fox network that O promised?
As much as I loathe rats, that picture sort of breaks my heart.
Too bad this thread is satire. I was going to comment about how you should clean the bottom of your shoe after smashing the rat to death. Many years ago I went to the park with my two sons and saw a long (4 ft) snake. I told the older son to take the younger son to the car and wait for me. I then gathered up some big stones and stoned the snake to death, crushing his head with a stone held in my very own hand as the final ending.
But, it was satire.
My story about the snake is real. I don’t fool with snakes, I kill them. (I’ve killed two in my lifetime!)
He got himself in there. Let him get hisself out of there.
O’cmon, man. That’s photoshopped!
Did he break his mother’s back??
His rat buddies probably ate his lower portion away. Hey,meat is meat!
I could do without this one last one!
That’s just wrong Mr. Larry David.
Nancy Pelosi at the podium.
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