Giant Rats in NYC - pic & story

[lift 456]

the rat has pointy elbows.

would not hit.

[BIG ACH]

Where's the story? 

That is a big fucking rat though!

[pillowtalk]

Where's the story? 

That is a big fucking rat though!

A dude stuck a giant Rat with a pitch-fork, that's the story.
This is GetBIG, what do you want?? 'encyclopedia Britannica' sheeesh.

PT

[YngiweRhoads]

At first glance, it appeared the rat had the skeletal structure to support wings.

[w8m8]

Where's the story? 

here :

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/08/25/2011-08-25_giant_rat_killed_by_pitchfork_in_marcy_houses_is_believed_to_be_.html

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 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."

Naomi Colon, head of the Marcy Houses Tenant Association, said there have been sightings of the outsize rat for at least six years.

"The residents have told me that they've seen it running around with other rats. She lived with them. She ran into the same hole they ran in."

Animal experts who viewed the picture identified the animal as a Gambian pouched rat, which is a fairly common pet rat.

They're nocturnal, can grow to three feet and four pounds or more, and live seven or eight years.

Imports have been banned since 2003, when they were blamed for a monkeypox outbreak that sickened 100 people in the United States.

Dr. Paul Calle, director of zoological health at the Wildlife Conservation Society, said the Marcy Houses specimen was probably an escaped or discarded pet who decided to join the regular rat race.

"They are a very social animal and live in big groups in the wild. Our Norway rats are the closest big rodents it could accompany," he said.

They can even be trained to sniff out landmines or even tuberculosis. "They're pretty remarkable animals," Calle said.

Tenants fear that the Gambian rat has been breeding with the Norway rats and spawning a super-breed of rodents - but zoo officials say not to worry.

The imported rat probably wouldn't mate with local rats, and it couldn't reproduce if it did, because each is from a different genus, Calle said.

Residents say that while the monster-sized rat may be the stuff of horror movies, the run-of-the-mill rats are an even bigger nightmare at the project where Jay-Z grew up.

"Even the cats are afraid of the rats. They get together and gang up on the cats, said resident Stephanie Davis, 44.

Pam Davis, 43, added, "They're here day and night. We don't dodge bullets. We dodge rats.They're so big, they should charge them rent."

The New York City Housing Authority had no immediate comment.

[Butterbean]

Will the rat be OK?

[K-1]

looks like a nutria. Seem em all the time in louisiana growing up. Get one in your home and it's a wrap. Fuckers will growl at you, and kill your dogs. Bastards can chew through brick. LMAO.

If I were that guy, I'd lime the entire back yard and front...kill everything.

[newmom]

Will the rat be OK?

 

[Dr Dutch]

Chupacabra at last. Send Honey Badger, it's the only way...

[Iceman1981]

let me tell you, seen some big rats when I lived in NYC. Take a gander on the tracks while waiting for the 6 train or any train for that matter..

Same here. They are huge.

[newmom]

Same here. They are huge.

I remember walking in the village, it was night time, fucker came right behind some garbage cans, man it was the size of a small cat good god

[Iceman1981]

I remember walking in the village, it was night time, fucker came right behind some garbage cans, man it was the size of a small cat good god

There was a junk yard a few blocks away from my school in Bronx and people used to dump garbage there. I saw some big rats and these fuckers aren't like regular rats. Regular rats run when they see you. These fuckers would stand there and look at you lol.

[Anna Recksiek]

Rat is offseason

[Cashfan]

Will the rat be OK?

He won't recover.

[newmom]

There was a junk yard a few blocks away from my school in Bronx and people used to dump garbage there. I saw some big rats and these fuckers aren't like regular rats. Regular rats run when they see you. These fuckers would stand there and look at you lol.

hahaha I hear ya. They do look at you, like what mother fucker, I run this city

[flinstones1]

That's pretty unreal. The guy that killed that fucker has definitely got some balls. You'd have to have balls to kill a rat that big, to be honest. Especially with a fuckin' pitchfork ! LOLOLOL !! I'm a country boy myself and I ain't never seen a rat that fuckin' big ! My cat wouldn't even stand a chance.

haha this is epic!

[Gregzs]

http://guyism.com/weird-news/gambian-pouched-rat-florida.html

WTFlorida: Gigantic African monster rats cannot be killed, are taking over Florida

Few things in life give me the heebie jeebies in the same way as rats. So when I first read the headline of ‘Giant Rats Won’t Die and Keep Invading Florida’ I couldn’t bring myself to click it. Well, curiosity got the best of me, and now I might never visit south Florida again…

As reported by KeysNet this week, the FOUR POUND MONSTER RATS that were thought to have been eradicated years ago are in fact immune to the undertaker’s caresses, and are once again swarming throughout south FL. Did I mention that they grow up to FOUR F*CKING POUNDS? AND 30 INCHES IN LENGTH?!?

The rats existence in Florida stemmed from some jackass Floridian who dealt in exotic pets, who sometime back between 1999-2001 thought it’d be a genius idea to let some of these mutant giants in to the wild for sh*ts and giggles. Then of course the rats did what rats do: make freakish gigantic baby rats who then make more rats until we’re all bowing down to the Rat King.

In terms of danger to humans, these 4lb beasts aren’t actually much of a threat at all. The real threat lays in these buggers trying to mess up all our lovely Floridian flora and fauna, which we just can’t have happening. In fact, aside from the remote chance you might contract monkeypox from one of them, they can actually be pretty damn useful. Yes, these mutant rats can be useful.

What you see above is the bastions of Satan being trained to SNIFF OUT MINES AND BOMB FIELDS in Africa. Just wrap your mind around that for a second. These rats are so damn massive & evolved that they’ve developed the ability to be trained to sniff out mines throughout Africa. More on that can be read here.

For now, I’m just gonna have to double down on my nightly prayers to the almighty Citrus Lord that he keep these abominations contained down in the swamps of S.FL.

[Royalty]

That's pretty unreal. The guy that killed that fucker has definitely got some balls. You'd have to have balls to kill a rat that big, to be honest. Especially with a fuckin' pitchfork ! LOLOLOL !! I'm a country boy myself and I ain't never seen a rat that fuckin' big ! My cat wouldn't even stand a chance.

I think that your cat my stand a better chance than you think.

The rat would not like getting its face raked with your cat's claws (multiple times)

[hardgainerj]

NYC must be filthy 

greatest city of peace 

[hardgainerj]

here :

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/08/25/2011-08-25_giant_rat_killed_by_pitchfork_in_marcy_houses_is_believed_to_be_.html

im not surprise ghetto are fucking dirty which is a rats paradise granted every home gets treked by a rat once in a while but still