Giant. Fucking. Sewer rat.

[asthmaticeog]

In my toilet. Right now. Good morning!

I'd heard of this sort of thing, yes, but always figured it for myth.

I've lived in this house for over ten years and never had ANY kind of vermin trouble. But now I have a humungous and VERY PISSED OFF rat in my toilet, with the lid closed, something heavy on the lid, and the door shut tight.

I really really hope the wildlife removal guy returns my page before I have to, um, you know.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Oh, bloody fucking hell. I'd move.

:scared:

[Bunny]

18. Yes. Pack your stuff and move immediately.

I could never use that toilet again, that's for sure! How can you be sure a rat won't come up while you're sitting there? :scared:

[flamingyouth]

2. This is my worst nightmare/fear.

Good luck. :scared:

[asthmaticeog]

4. Thanks.

It was more just around-the-bend bizarre and startling than scary. If it gets out, THEN it's scary.

[auntAgonist]

3. I'd have to move.

:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[GirlinContempt]

5. FLush

Just flush baby, flush

[asthmaticeog]

8. That won't work.

It's HUGE. It could get in because it *meant* to. If I flushed, it'd just clog and become more motivated to escape, there's no way it'd just go down.

[GirlinContempt]

12. How big is huge?

[ronnykmarshall]

79. Here it is!

[supernova]

6. Good grief!

I've never seen one of those.

Yikes! Can you go to a neighbors if you have to? I wouldn't go in there.

He must have been there a while, and you just haven't seen him.

How big is "giant"? I'm frankly curious.

[asthmaticeog]

15. Much bigger than a kitten, but smaller than a cat.

[hfojvt]

7. I really doubt that you can flush this trouble away

although even if you do, it may not be homicidal.
Presumably the big guy lives down there, and since he came up the pipes, he can go back down 'em.

[Deja Q]

9. Well, whatever else happens, don't feed it.

:wow:

[eeyore]

10. How the hell did it get in there?

Did it come up throught the sewer pipes? Can they hold their breath that long?


Don't ever sit on that toilet again! :scared:

[Lex]

24. That's what I'm wondering!!

[leftofthedial]

11. no, honey

you can't keep it

I don't care if it followed you, um, home

[Blue-Jay]

13. Quick! Get a picture of it!

Then hit it with a hammer.

[Deja Q]

16. A picture? He said it WAS fucking...

Dunno about you, but rat porn isn't quite at the top of my list of things to look at... :rofl:

[Susang]

22. I second that motion!

We want proof of this aberration. :evilgrin:

[asthmaticeog]

30. If I can find my roommate's digital camrea, will do. n/t

[Susang]

35. Yay!

I knew you'd be game. ;-)

[skygazer]

14. One of the most interesting books I've read was about rats

This guy studied rats in NYC for a year, staking out this alley and taking notes and stuff. He interviewed pest control people and did historical research relating to rats and in the process somehow tied the lives of city rats in with the lives of people in a way that was really pretty cool.

It was very readable and extremely, and surprisingly, interesting and had a lot of very cool history about NYC, my favorite city ever.

Oh, and he did talk about them coming up in people's toilets.

This is a review -

http://contemporarylit.about.com/b/a/107090.htm

[smirkymonkey]

28. Fuck! Now I won't ever be able to use the toilet again without

thinking that a rat is going to come up and bite me in the ass (or worse) - NYC rats are HUGE too - many of them are even larger than most cats. :scared:

[likesmountains 52]

58. I just read that book too...it was very interesting...but I still wouldn't

like to see a rat in my toilet...

[WCGreen]

17. Dude... That just sucks....

I always thought that crap happened in NYC...

Not here in the best location in the nation...

I think it has to do with all that WalMart construction goin' on around you...

try and have a good weekend...

[asthmaticeog]

29. You might be right about the construction...

That's a HUGE site, lots more big-box going in than just the Wal-Mart. It'd be surprising if a sewer line wasn't cracked open.

[terrya]

19. Oh God, EWWWWW.

That is probably the worst thing I could imagine seeing in my toilet. That's grotesque beyond words.

I, also, hope the wildlife guy gets to you. Being a weekend and all.

Good luck!

[Blue-Jay]

25. Nah.

The worst thing is what happens after Beastman eats vindaloo.

[johnnie]

20. Whoa

That's fucked up. I hope the wildlife people cleans that shit out of your toilet.

[UTUSN]

21. It Wasn't This One, Was It?

[I Have A Dream]

50. Sooo cute!

:loveya:

[Susang]

23. Is it still there?

What's it doing? :hi:

[Blue-Jay]

26. The backstroke!

[Susang]

36. Thank you, I'll be here all week!

Try the veal! :evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. Omigod, my dear asthmaticeog.......

Please, when you get a chance, give us an update, OK?

Scary shit, indeed.......

[GirlinContempt]

34. "Scary shit, indeed......."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[blindpig]

31. Send a python in after it.

That'll fix it.:evilgrin:

[southlandshari]

32. Please tell me you are kidding!

This is a nightmare of mine. I don't know why, but I have this intense paranoia about finding a mouse or rat in the toilet. I thought it was an urban myth, too, but because we have mice in the building where I work, I HATE using the bathroom there. I have to lift the seat and look behind the damn thing and sometimes even flush it before I go!!

This is a joke, right?

:cry:

[no name no slogan]

33. Hmmm, I guess we know what's for breakfast then

[rateyes]

37. Better one of those,

than one of these:



You know, these look for rats...just thought I'd be helpful.

[tigereye]

38. there's a rat in me....(toilet)

sorry.

Hope you got rid of it.

[neweurope]

39. PLEASE get it out of there and put it in the nearest bushes, please!

That animal is suffering terribly!

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[Kellanved]

40. rats in urban areas aren't exactly great

Which is why tax money is used to control their population. And a sewer rat certainly is neither as cute, nor as tame as a domesticated one.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

42. And doesn't belong in the bushes.

And probably isn't suffering. He's just cold and pissed.
Duckie

[neweurope]

45. Crap, forgive me. Of course the animal is suffering. It's not a fish!

Putting it in the bushes is better for the original poster than trying to find the exact sewer the rat came from :)

By the way I love that picture with those two doves :)


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[ikojo]

55. It belongs in the Bush's house in Crawford

Texas. I am sure it would be quite at home amongst its own kind.

[neweurope]

43. I live in an urban area - Frankfurt, to be exact. I don 't think cuteness

or the lack of it enters into the matter, Kellanved. The suffering does, though. If you don't want for it to live - then be merciful and kill it quickly. But don't let it paddle around till it is finally drowned. That's incredibly cruel. Bad, bad Karma :)

On edit:

I kill rats frequently with poison. I think that's bad Karma, too... but I have to take care of my horses, first, and rodents could harm them (rather the germs they carry). But I always wait until the situation really has become unbearable. Just wanted to make sure you understand I'm not loony. And I know rats.

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[asthmaticeog]

46. Sewer rats are very, very different from surface-dwelling rodents.

Their entire existence revolves around fighting each other for food, often to the death. When there is no other food, they slaughter and eat one another. They've even been known to mate with their dead. To have attempted to rescue the rat in my toilet would have been to expose myself to serious harm, as these are EXTREMELY pugilistic creatures due to the brutal nature of their existence, and of course, as you mention, they're a vector for many, many truly horrible diseases. Expiring in my toilet was probably a pleasant way to go considering how sewer rats usually die - by the teeth and claws of their fellows in an underground river of effluvia.

[neweurope]

47. Sorry, I think you are wrong. Sewer rats are animals who live

in packs and therefore have social lives which even include love. While I would be afraid for my horses - there definitely are germs (forgot the name right now) which could hurt horses - I wouldn't be afraid for myself, seriously.


Is the poor animal finally dead?


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[asthmaticeog]

48. Yes. It expired peacefully about 45 minutes ago.

I disposed of it and did some serious scrubbing up...

[neweurope]

49. I'm glad to hear the ordeal is over.

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[asthmaticeog]

61. Um, excuse me?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4391299&mesg_id=4392266

Fuck you sideways, you piece of shit hypocrite.

[terrya]

62. They're vermin that carry disease. Why get sentimental over them?

They breed in profusion. Believe me, they're not on any endangered species lists.

If I saw any in my house, I'd arrange to have them killed immediately. Fuck that "oh, they're so precious" shit.

[asthmaticeog]

64. But terrya, apparently they feel loooooooove!

Lotsa love feelings going on when they're killing each other over sewage-besotted crumbs and mating with their dead, y'know... ;)

[terrya]

66. That certainly is one peculiar form of love.

This whole subthread is one of the silliest things I've read at DU in quite some time, asthmaticeog.

I'm just glad that that disease carrying VERMIN isn't around anymore. :-)

[asthmaticeog]

67. I kind of miss it, now.

If not for its appearance, I seriously would have had nothing to do yesterday. :shrug:

Still, there's a bit of anxiety in the answering nature's call department, so in a way, it's still here, in spirit. And spirits don't spread bubonic plague. Or do they? I should ask in the Meeting Room...

[WCGreen]

68. Here Rat Fuck, Here you cute little critter....

[tigereye]

70. maybe you should have some kind of memorial service...

n/t

[asthmaticeog]

71. Beware the Beast Man can write the eulogy.

He owes me one.

[tigereye]

72. you can compose a tune for the occasion

I would attend if I didn't live so far away.

:hi: glad your toilet is now a safe zone...

[asthmaticeog]

73. tige, you should KNOW my toilet is never a safe zone.

[tigereye]

74. well compared to what it was yesterday, Asth

I love having these meaningful discussions with you.

Although forutnately, your internist would know better about the "contents" of your toilet than I would.

[asthmaticeog]

75. You're not doing forensic latrine spelunking anymore?

I thought people's "heads" were your whole gig. :shrug:

[tigereye]

76. o...k

:rofl:

I leave scatology to the Freudians....

[Beware the Beast Man]

57. Oh, FFS, it's not a cuddly widdle otter, it's a frigging sewer rat!

[Lochloosa]

41. Feed it...make it a pet....and call it Ben...

[Wapsie B]

44. Good lord.

Pressure cook that rascal in a little beer and garlic. Then a little beer batter and deep-fry in peanut oil. I've always said a good beer batter would make even sewer rat taste good. ;-)

[I Have A Dream]

51. I don't know if this is true, but I will no longer go to the bathroom...

in the middle of the night without turning the light on! :scared:

[GirlinContempt]

52. Is it taken care of?

How'd ya do it?

[I Have A Dream]

56. Here's another thread with the final update information.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4392091&mesg_id=4392330

[NNadir]

53. Jesus, Dick Cheney never appeared in my toilet.

Some of us are just lucky I guess.

[Enraged_Ape]

69. Ah, so THAT'S where the undisclosed location is

Clever, Mr. Cheney. Verrrrrrrrrrrrry clever.

[momophile]

54. this one was in my bathroom...

in the Peace Corps. Much different than having a sewer rat though.

I also got bit on the arm while I was sleeping. Very creepy.

[vajraroshana]

59. be glad it wasn't a snake

Now *that* would freak me out. Of course, so would a rat, but I saw Pollyanna on PBS recently, and I've been playing the "glad" game -- you know when something's awful, you think of something worse and be glad your not dealing with that situation.

[bikebloke]

60. An old family story.

When my father was an infant, my grandmother heard a splashing in the bathroom. A huge rat had climbed through. She said she chased it through the house with a broom for 20 minutes, before finally shooing it out. They always ruminated, what if someone was sitting on it.

And so 70-some years later, I put the lid down on the toilet.

[peekaloo]

63. What in the world have you been eating?

:hurts:

[Maddy McCall]

65. The rat didn't get in your toilet from your apartment building. He got...

He got there by crawling from the sewer pipes under the street into your apartment building's sewer line, and you just happened to be the lucky apartment dweller whose line he chose, once he was inside the apartment line.

If you had lived in the Ritz, it would have been just as likely to have happened to you.

Don't move because a rat chose your apartment's sewer line. You're special--not everyone is chosen to be graced by a sewer rat's appearance.

[Taverner]

77. Mmmmm Sewer Rat Chili!

[Horus45]

78. Flush him down

Hopefully he will go down on the first flush.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

80. i'm sorry but i'm LMFAO!!!

been there done that...here kitty kitty

[Chicago Democrat]

81. A Picture!! PLEASE!

We can USE IT FOR ANti bush propaganda!!



For the party!

[graywarrior]

82. I thought this was about Tom DeLay

[LanternWaste]

83. What did you eat this morning?

Good golly! What did you eat this morning? That must've hurt coming out!

[Elidor]

84. I'll never go near the bathroom again!!!

Kinda brings new meaning to the phrase "nut-check."