03-05-2007, 06:44 PM | #11 |
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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?).
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I don't know about Rat Kings, but I've read "King Rat" by Clavell.
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03-05-2007, 08:42 PM | #16 |
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It's a large mouse.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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