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Feuer Frei!
08-26-11, 08:20 PM
What a Monster!

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2011/08/26/alg_giant_rat2.jpg

It sounds like an urban legend: giant mutant-looking rats roaming a city housing project.
Only there's a picture.
A photo making the rounds shows Housing Authority worker Jose Rivera (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Jose+Rivera) minutes after he speared the humongous rodent with a pitchfork at the Marcy Houses.
It's covered in white fur and looks well-fed. It appears to be about three feet long, including its hideously dangling tail.
And Rivera, 48, says it's not the only one. He insists that while he was filling a rat hole last week, three came running out - but he was only able to nail one.
"I hit it one time and it was still moving," Rivera said. "I hit it another time and that's when it died. I'm not scared of rats but I was scared of being bitten."


SOURCE (http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/08/25/2011-08-25_giant_rat_killed_by_pitchfork_in_marcy_houses_i s_believed_to_be_.html)
danasan
08-27-11, 06:32 AM
WOW! What a pitchfork :o
Platapus
08-27-11, 07:52 AM
Rodents of unusual size?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXjl1eMczN0
Oberon
08-27-11, 08:38 AM
No, no, is filigree Siberian Hamster (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPP4P3gKGss&feature=player_detailpage#t=359s)
Tchocky
08-27-11, 09:45 AM
No, no, is filigree Siberian Hamster (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPP4P3gKGss&feature=player_detailpage#t=359s)

Cuddle that and you'd never play the guitar again
AVGWarhawk
08-27-11, 10:27 AM
Critter dejour! :DL
Oberon
08-27-11, 11:50 AM
Cuddle that and you'd never play the guitar again

"I don't know, I'll take it away, let it go, give it its freedom."
"You can't do that Basil, he wouldn't be able to defend himself."
"He's a rat, isn't he?"
"Well he's domesticated, aren't you?"
"Well you're domesticated you do alright."
"Basil..."
"Look he's not going to get mugged by a gang of field mice is he?"
"Basil, he's Manuels pet, we have a duty to him. Perhaps we could find a home for him..."
"Alright, I'll put an ad in the papers. Wanted, Kind home for enormous savage rodent....answers to the name of Sybil..."
nikimcbee
08-27-11, 11:56 AM
Oh, I thought this thread was going to be about pelosi. False alarm.

Well, atleast it wasn't a ferret.
Jimbuna
08-27-11, 12:37 PM
"I don't know, I'll take it away, let it go, give it its freedom."
"You can't do that Basil, he wouldn't be able to defend himself."
"He's a rat, isn't he?"
"Well he's domesticated, aren't you?"
"Well you're domesticated you do alright."
"Basil..."
"Look he's not going to get mugged by a gang of field mice is he?"
"Basil, he's Manuels pet, we have a duty to him. Perhaps we could find a home for him..."
"Alright, I'll put an ad in the papers. Wanted, Kind home for enormous savage rodent....answers to the name of Sybil..."

LOL :DL
Sailor Steve
08-27-11, 01:15 PM
I find Oberon's quote to be fawlty, at best. :O:
frau kaleun
08-27-11, 08:24 PM
I find Oberon's quote to be fawlty, at best. :O:

Thank you, sir, for once again blessing us with your towering wit. :O:
Castout
08-27-11, 11:34 PM
That vindicated Gaddafi. That must be the rats he's talking about :O: