Rat in the toilet

[Inky_Wretch]

You know, I'd heard of rats coming up sewer pipes. But nothing prepares you for flipping up the lid and seeing one swimming around. City sewer department said to flush it. So I did and it is gone.

I am freaked out, man. Seriously freaked out.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Can't blame a creature for being hungry

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I'll send it your way then.

 

[Killick]

You heartless *******. Pool little fella swims what can only be compared to the English Channel, and while he treads water trying to catch a breath, you send him on a return trip.

The least you could have done was give him a cheese cube as a last meal, tie a little blindfold around his head and offer a cigarette.

 

[mustangj17]

I would never poop again.

 

[wicked]

I was in a press box bathroom years ago at BU and started to hear some squealing coming from the wall. I judiciously passed on using the commode.

 

[21]

Sounds like a great iPad game.

'You conquered Angry Birds...but can you handle....RAT IN THE TOILET!'

 

[oscaroscaroscar]

Man, would that freak me the frick out too. Holy crap. One of those things you hear about being out there, but don't want to think about.

It does sound like a much better video game than real-life experience.

How did you have enough time to call the sewer department though? Was the thing doing laps or something?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

How did you have enough time to call the sewer department though? Was the thing doing laps or something?

Put the lid back down, put a trash can on top (just in case it could fly or something) and called. Flushed four times.

From what I read online, once they get in the bowl they can't get out. No way to grip and jump or something.

 

[John]

They don't eat, don't sleep
They don't feed, they don't seethe
Bare their gums when they moan and squeak
Lick the dirt off a larger one's feet
They don't push, don't crowd
Congregate until they're much too loud
**** to procreate till they are dead
Drink the blood of their so called best friend

They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way
Don't pack themselves together and run as one
Don't **** where they're not supposed to
Don't take what's not theirs, they don't compare

They don't scam, don't fight
Don't oppress an equals given rights
Starve the poor so they can be well fed
Line their holes with the dead ones bread

They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way
Don't pack themselves together and run as one (2x)
Don't **** where they're not supposed to
Don't take what's not theirs, they don't compare...

Rats...They don't compare (2x)
Ben, the two of us need look no more (6X)

 

[dreunc1542]

About a week ago I was waiting for the subway, and I was watching this precocious rat (there was nothing else to do). It was running around about 20 feet from me. At one point it went behind a bench where this guy was sitting and talking on the phone. He had his legs bent backward under the bench and I watched as the rat went up to his foot.

I figured it would run away, but instead it started to crawl up the back of his leg. Since he was on the phone and not paying attention, it took about five seconds before he realized there was a rat on the back of his leg and kicked it off. I clearly am too used to rats as this amused me instead of grossing me out.

 

[Dyno]

About a week ago I was waiting for the subway, and I was watching this precocious rat (there was nothing else to do). It was running around about 20 feet from me. At one point it went behind a bench where this guy was sitting and talking on the phone. He had his legs bent backward under the bench and I watched as the rat went up to his foot.

I figured it would run away, but instead it started to crawl up the back of his leg. Since he was on the phone and not paying attention, it took about five seconds before he realized there was a rat on the back of his leg and kicked it off. I clearly am too used to rats as this amused me instead of grossing me out.

HOLY ****ING ****. I am going to have nightmares.

 

[Machine Head]

There are 'good' rats:

Rolling Stone magazine, the most respected Rock & Roll magazine, has labeled The Good Rats as "the world's most famous unknown band." Rock stars like Kiss, Jon Bon Jovi and Billy Joel, along with celebrities like Alec Baldwin, Rosie O'Donnel and many others, are among the many fans of The Good Rats. The band is extremely proud to have been inducted into the Long Island Music Hall Of Fame along with Billy Joel, Kiss, The Ramones, Blue Oyster Cult, Pat Benetar, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey and more. Multi-platinum recording artist The Ramones and Public Enemy both paid tribute to The Good Rats at the Hall of Fame induction.

http://www.goodrats.com/bio.asp

Welcome to stuff in my head from the '70s.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Happy throne time, dyno.

 

[dixiehack]

I would sell my house before using that toilet again.

 

[mb]

That rat crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of **** smelling foulness I can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile.
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And then Inky flushed his ass.

 

[The Big Ragu]

About a week ago I was waiting for the subway, and I was watching this precocious rat (there was nothing else to do). It was running around about 20 feet from me. At one point it went behind a bench where this guy was sitting and talking on the phone. He had his legs bent backward under the bench and I watched as the rat went up to his foot.

I figured it would run away, but instead it started to crawl up the back of his leg. Since he was on the phone and not paying attention, it took about five seconds before he realized there was a rat on the back of his leg and kicked it off. I clearly am too used to rats as this amused me instead of grossing me out.

HOLY ****ING ****. I am going to have nightmares.

We went to dinner last night at this place across the FDR on the East River and we were walking along the river afterward. A giant rat came out of the snow and ran around us. My girlfiend saw him first and jumped about 40 feet in the year and let out a noise I have never heard before (unfortunately, but that's a different story). Then he saw us and ran about a 3.2 40 yard dash back into the snow and disappeared to god knows where.

Rats freak me out, but not that much. Like druenc, I have been around too many of them. They are all over the subways and I ride them a lot. I also live on the water, so my neighborhood is infested. When you are out at night, you might not notice them, because they are sly and try not to be noticed. But they are everywhere. More of them than people.

 

[sostartled]

First time I ever saw a rat in DC I was walking with my wife and some friends. I thought I saw a squirrel run across the street and under a car, until it crossed 5 feet in front of us and scurried down an alley. I ****ing pushed my wife in front of me as I jumped on a concrete barrier thing. I hate those little bastards so much.

 

[slappy4428]

That rat crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of **** smelling foulness I can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile.
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And then Inky flushed his ass.

Bravo....

 

[dreunc1542]

About a week ago I was waiting for the subway, and I was watching this precocious rat (there was nothing else to do). It was running around about 20 feet from me. At one point it went behind a bench where this guy was sitting and talking on the phone. He had his legs bent backward under the bench and I watched as the rat went up to his foot.

I figured it would run away, but instead it started to crawl up the back of his leg. Since he was on the phone and not paying attention, it took about five seconds before he realized there was a rat on the back of his leg and kicked it off. I clearly am too used to rats as this amused me instead of grossing me out.

HOLY ****ING ****. I am going to have nightmares.

We went to dinner last night at this place across the FDR on the East River and we were walking along the river afterward. A giant rat came out of the snow and ran around us. My girlfiend saw him first and jumped about 40 feet in the year and let out a noise I have never heard before (unfortunately, but that's a different story). Then he saw us and ran about a 3.2 40 yard dash back into the snow and disappeared to god knows where.

Rats freak me out, but not that much. Like druenc, I have been around too many of them. They are all over the subways and I ride them a lot. I also live on the water, so my neighborhood is infested. When you are out at night, you might not notice them, because they are sly and try not to be noticed. But they are everywhere. More of them than people.

My story to top them all, as far as rat stories go. My friends' apartment had a rat problem this past summer. They couldn't figure out where it was getting in, and it caused general chaos for a couple weeks. It was first seen running across the kitchen counter when one of them was making breakfast in the morning. And this thing was a full on large rat, not a mouse.

The biggest issue is that their apartment is where most of our friends crash when they stay overnight in the city. A couple of those staying over had unfortunate encounters. One girl went to pick up her bag in the morning and the thing jumped out and scurried away. Things finally reached a "holy ****ing ****, we need to block every possible hole in the apt" level when one my morning my friend Nick woke up on their living room couch and the rat was on his bare leg. He freaked out and kicked it off. That day they figured out where it was getting in and blocked the hole and haven't had an issue since.

I've had mice in my apartment - I've had to kill 3 little ones that we've trapped. That's not pleasant and makes me feel like a huge asshole - and like I said I'm mostly used to mice, but having a sewer rat hanging around the apartment would have freaked me out so much.