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SeattleUte · 03-05-2007, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

sometimes the rats are so bad that you just give up.

True. My last assignment was a shantytown by the sea called Esmeraldas. The houses were all bamboo and many on stilts over stinking swamps that served as cesspools (holes cut in the floors) and accessed by bridges. I used to see 50 rats a day minimum alive or dead. The people were very friendly and we used to walk up to members' open windows and call out to them. Once I was talking to this woman through her window and I noticed behind her probably ten rats or so were popping out of a hole in the wall and milling around in the corner. Aghast, I pointed and said, "Mire!" (look!). She turned, looked, shrugged, and said "Y?" (And? i.e., who cares?).

YOhio · 03-05-2007, 06:51 PM

Do you believe in Rat Kings?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king

MikeWaters · 03-05-2007, 06:58 PM

I don't know about Rat Kings, but I've read "King Rat" by Clavell.

BigFatMeanie · 03-05-2007, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by YOhio

Do you believe in Rat Kings?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king

Dude, that is nasty! I wish I hadn't read that article. I'm probably going to have nightmares now.

BarbaraGordon · 03-05-2007, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by YOhio

Do you believe in Rat Kings?

Isn't there a Rat King in the Nutcracker? Or is that supposed to be a mouse?

SeattleUte · 03-05-2007, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

Isn't there a Rat King in the Nutcracker? Or is that supposed to be a mouse?

It's a large mouse.

Jeff Lebowski · 03-05-2007, 09:03 PM

When I was a kid my brothers and I would take black tape and strap flashlights to our .22's and go to the city dump at night and shoot rats. When we first drove in and turned off the truck, you could hear hundreds (thousands?) of rats banging around in the tin cans. Ocassionally we would find an old couch to sit on while we picked off the rats.

Redneck heaven, eh?

Detroitdad · 03-06-2007, 06:38 AM

Anyone else besides me had pet rats? They really do make very fine domesticated pets. In my mind much better than a dog or a cat.

myboynoah · 03-06-2007, 08:47 AM

Let me share.

I supervised pineapple pickers on Lanai one summer. The fields were infested with rats and on occasion someone would yell "RAT!" and the whole crew would leave the boom, using pineapples as missiles to nail the rat. Then everyone would gather round as we stuck the stunned or dead rat under the wheel of the truck with the upper torso showing in order to get the full effect of something that resembled popping a big zit. Good times.

Two years ago our neighbors had a rat problem that they probably brought with them in their furniture shipment (the building had no problem before). After several futile attempts to capture the vermin, they decided to go chemical. Unhappily, the rat decided to die in the space right above our bedroom. The stench was horrible and the maintenance people told us there was nothing they could do to locate the decaying rat (lazy French bastards). We opened the windows, closed off that side of our apartment, and hunkered down for a long winter. Rats take roughly 4-6 months to decay and desiccate. Not such good times.

SeattleUte · 03-06-2007, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by myboynoah

Let me share.

I supervised pineapple pickers on Lanai one summer. The fields were infested with rats and on occasion someone would yell "RAT!" and the whole crew would leave the boom, using pineapples as missiles to nail the rat. Then everyone would gather round as we stuck the stunned or dead rat under the wheel of the truck with the upper torso showing in order to get the full effect of something that resembled popping a big zit. Good times.

Two years ago our neighbors had a rat problem that they probably brought with them in their furniture shipment (the building had no problem before). After several futile attempts to capture the vermin, they decided to go chemical. Unhappily, the rat decided to die in the space right above our bedroom. The stench was horrible and the maintenance people told us there was nothing they could do to locate the decaying rat (lazy French bastards). We opened the windows, closed off that side of our apartment, and hunkered down for a long winter. Rats take roughly 4-6 months to decay and desiccate. Not such good times.

I understand that some people hypothecise that these sick buildings like the legionaire's disease problem come from rats, sometimes dead and decaying. I've been told that new highrises often are built around rats that get trapped and die sometimes creating health issues.

03-05-2007, 09:03 PM	#17
Jeff Lebowski Charon Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the heart of darkness (Provo) Posts: 9,564	When I was a kid my brothers and I would take black tape and strap flashlights to our .22's and go to the city dump at night and shoot rats. When we first drove in and turned off the truck, you could hear hundreds (thousands?) of rats banging around in the tin cans. Ocassionally we would find an old couch to sit on while we picked off the rats. Redneck heaven, eh? __________________ "... the arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice." Martin Luther King, Jr.

03-06-2007, 08:47 AM	#19
myboynoah Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Memphis freakin' Tennessee!!!!! Posts: 4,530	Let me share. I supervised pineapple pickers on Lanai one summer. The fields were infested with rats and on occasion someone would yell "RAT!" and the whole crew would leave the boom, using pineapples as missiles to nail the rat. Then everyone would gather round as we stuck the stunned or dead rat under the wheel of the truck with the upper torso showing in order to get the full effect of something that resembled popping a big zit. Good times. Two years ago our neighbors had a rat problem that they probably brought with them in their furniture shipment (the building had no problem before). After several futile attempts to capture the vermin, they decided to go chemical. Unhappily, the rat decided to die in the space right above our bedroom. The stench was horrible and the maintenance people told us there was nothing they could do to locate the decaying rat (lazy French bastards). We opened the windows, closed off that side of our apartment, and hunkered down for a long winter. Rats take roughly 4-6 months to decay and desiccate. Not such good times. __________________ Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!! Religion rises inevitably from our apprehension of our own death. To give meaning to meaninglessness is the endless quest of all religion. When death becomes the center of our consciousness, then religion authentically begins. Of all religions that I know, the one that most vehemently and persuasively defies and denies the reality of death is the original Mormonism of the Prophet, Seer and Revelator, Joseph Smith.

03-05-2007, 06:51 PM	#12
YOhio AKA SeattleNewt Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 7,055	Do you believe in Rat Kings? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king

03-05-2007, 06:58 PM	#13
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	I don't know about Rat Kings, but I've read "King Rat" by Clavell.

03-06-2007, 06:38 AM	#18
Detroitdad Resident Jackass Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Roswell, New Mexico Posts: 1,846	Anyone else besides me had pet rats? They really do make very fine domesticated pets. In my mind much better than a dog or a cat.