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stephent2 · September 7th, 2009, 02:28 PM

I swear i saw one of these out in the west end of Atlanta 20 years ago. It was midnight, working at a studio,.. I was taking a smoke break on the roof,... looked down and saw what i thought was a small ugly dog standing on his hind legs looking at some trash, as my eyes adjusted, i was shocked by the size it was definitely a rat.

Big John · September 7th, 2009, 03:13 PM

stephent2 · September 7th, 2009, 04:00 PM

Love me some Fawlty Towers, forgot to post the news article about the new giant rat discovery,.. would made a bit more sense.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapc...pua/index.html

smsuryan · September 7th, 2009, 04:18 PM

i heard something similar lives in the sewers in NYC.

kingofdogs1950 · September 7th, 2009, 04:20 PM

Rats grow big here in Austin feasting on guitar cables. I retained the Gatos to guard the Muddy-caster.

Mark

64Strat · September 7th, 2009, 04:53 PM

thread title is also a Firesign Theatre album title.

F6_FullMelt · September 7th, 2009, 04:59 PM

i think those are included in your rent in new jersey !

Tonemonkey · September 7th, 2009, 05:35 PM

Quote:

George McGavin, a Research Associate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and The Department of Zoology of Oxford University told CNN:

"To find new species of insects in this region isn't uncommon, but we found sixteen new frog species, one new bat species and at least three new fish, and this giant bloody rat -- the size of a cat. Amazing!"

Classic quote from the Professor!

stephent2 · September 7th, 2009, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 64Strat

thread title is also a Firesign Theatre album title.

"Stones, you snowball!"

so right!

It was my intended reference, though an obscure one.

garytelecastor · September 7th, 2009, 05:56 PM

When I was a young lad I worked at a Grain Elevator shoveling grain out of box cars. We had more rats in that place than you can ever imagine.
They lived in holes in the ground and during the night, if you went up on the lower roof of the elevator it looked like the ground was moving.
When we had slack time we would form hunting teams of 4 and go out to kill them with clubs. They will only die if you crush the skull.
Also, one night coming home from a gig at about 3 am we had been deluged with rain. I was driving up my street and I saw what I swear, had to be a beaver with a thin tail waddling up the gutter.
I should have run it down, but it ended up going down a drain.
I am shuddering thinking of these filthy creatures.
At the grain elevator they had a fire at a former elevator up the tracks. All that remained was the foundation. The rats had claimed it as theirs. One time a cat tried to go down there and they killed it, then left it at the entrance to their hole to warn others.
In the mornings we would go clean out Hopper cars and if you set your arm down on piece of cardboard sometimes it would move away. YUK!!!!!

David Barnett · September 7th, 2009, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 64Strat

thread title is also a Firesign Theatre album title.

How incisive!

garytelecastor · September 7th, 2009, 06:31 PM

Hutia-Giant tree rat from Cuba.

tree-rat.jpg

Nick JD · September 7th, 2009, 08:31 PM

When some Dutch fella sailed past Perth in Western Australia eons ago, he saw all the Quokas on an island and called the island Rottsnest - Dutch for rat's nest.

fordfanjpn · September 7th, 2009, 08:34 PM

Geez, for a minute there I thought this was a thread about my ex-wife!

Bill

mjb1967 · September 7th, 2009, 08:53 PM

I saw a few about half that size when I lived in North Springs/ Dunwoody/ Atlanta, on the river....they would dumpster dive if you left the lid off the bin at work...kinda scary creatures

dijos · September 7th, 2009, 09:16 PM

Nutria?

pchilson · September 7th, 2009, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fordfanjpn

Geez, for a minute there I thought this was a thread about my ex-wife!

Bill

That bad was it? ha,ha crack me up...

ibobunot · September 7th, 2009, 09:19 PM

mr natural · September 7th, 2009, 11:10 PM

I saw a river rat one time, dragging a plastic shopping bag full of garbage down the street with it's mouth. It'd make it a few feet, lose its grip, circle round and get another grip and continue on another few feet. Must've been something good in that bag.

A friend of mine was a night watchman in a huge abandoned steel mill. Nobody around for miles. He had a .22 with a maglight duct taped to the stock. He said that there were way more rats than he had bullets most nights.
-Mr. Natural

TeleBrew · September 8th, 2009, 01:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garytelecastor

When I was a young lad I worked at a Grain Elevator shoveling grain out of box cars. We had more rats in that place than you can ever imagine.
They lived in holes in the ground and during the night, if you went up on the lower roof of the elevator it looked like the ground was moving.
When we had slack time we would form hunting teams of 4 and go out to kill them with clubs. They will only die if you crush the skull.
Also, one night coming home from a gig at about 3 am we had been deluged with rain. I was driving up my street and I saw what I swear, had to be a beaver with a thin tail waddling up the gutter.
I should have run it down, but it ended up going down a drain.
I am shuddering thinking of these filthy creatures.
At the grain elevator they had a fire at a former elevator up the tracks. All that remained was the foundation. The rats had claimed it as theirs. One time a cat tried to go down there and they killed it, then left it at the entrance to their hole to warn others.
In the mornings we would go clean out Hopper cars and if you set your arm down on piece of cardboard sometimes it would move away. YUK!!!!!

"They will only die if you crush the skull."

Just like a zombie.

TeleBrew · September 8th, 2009, 01:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr natural

I saw a river rat one time, dragging a plastic shopping bag full of garbage down the street with it's mouth. It'd make it a few feet, lose its grip, circle round and get another grip and continue on another few feet. Must've been something good in that bag.

A friend of mine was a night watchman in a huge abandoned steel mill. Nobody around for miles. He had a .22 with a maglight duct taped to the stock. He said that there were way more rats than he had bullets most nights.
-Mr. Natural

I've heard of "bag ladies," but bag rats?! Tough economic times hit in the most unexpected of places.

Buckocaster51 · September 8th, 2009, 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TeleBrew

"They will only die if you crush the skull."

Just like a zombie.

Kill the brain...kill the zombie...that's a basic fact!

stephent2 · September 8th, 2009, 02:16 AM

there's a lot of construction around the place i play on Sunday nights plus it backs up to the Atlanta railroad yards,....

One monday morning I come out to start my car and the dash info read out thingy reports my windshield washer don't work and I know this shouldn't be the case so I pop the hood to find the wires,.. chewed in half.

And there's a big round hole in the insulated hood pad and pieces of insulation around the engine and it occurs to me I have a rat in my car. I grab the hose and soak the hood pad through the hole and all around the engine compartment. Then I drove to the garage I deal with, guys I've known for a long time,.. we look around, fix the wire and figure the rat is gone. I drive back home, shut off the car, pop the hood and I see THE RAT scurrying along the steering rack.

Geez. A hitchhiking, thrill seeking Atlanta rat. I really couldn't believe it, disgusting. The rodent had been hold up in the engine bay at least 50 miles.

So the fix,.. moth balls. Moth balls in a nylon stocking hung in the engine compartment. I sold the car a month later.

markothefish · September 8th, 2009, 04:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TeleBrew

"They will only die if you crush the skull."

Just like a zombie.

bowman · September 8th, 2009, 10:56 AM

A friend of mine worked a summer job at a tannery back in the '70s. The cowhides would come in every week by rail in boxcars. When the doors were opened and the unloading began, the rats would start to scurry out of the boxcars where they had aparently been eating cowhides for hundreds of miles. There were 2 or 3 guys there who would bring .22 rifles to work on unloading day so they could use the rats for live target practice. Also, they didn't want them moving into the storage area of the plant. (which probably already had enough rats)

kelnet · September 8th, 2009, 11:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stephent2

I swear i saw one of these out in the west end of Atlanta 20 years ago. It was midnight, working at a studio,.. I was taking a smoke break on the roof,... looked down and saw what i thought was a small ugly dog standing on his hind legs looking at some trash, as my eyes adjusted, i was shocked by the size it was definitely a rat.

It's probably one of these:

But what made you post this, when it happened 20 years ago?

stephent2 · September 8th, 2009, 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kelnet

But what made you post this, when it happened 20 years ago?

The nightmares, still I see that rat,...

So you'd correct me?

So we could chat?

To up my post count?

Naw, if you'll look at my second post in this thread it's about the discovery of a New giant rat species, i threw in the personal experience to give the post some rat flavor.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapc...ref=newssearch

TJNY · September 8th, 2009, 11:37 AM

David Barnett · September 8th, 2009, 12:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garytelecastor

Also, one night coming home from a gig at about 3 am we had been deluged with rain. I was driving up my street and I saw what I swear, had to be a beaver with a thin tail waddling up the gutter.

A woodchuck looks like a beaver without the beaver tail.

Jackson Jackson · September 8th, 2009, 12:32 PM

Nothing as scary as THIS ever crawled out of the sewer!

kelnet · September 8th, 2009, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stephent2

The nightmares, still I see that rat,...

So you'd correct me?

So we could chat?

To up my post count?

Naw, if you'll look at my second post in this thread it's about the discovery of a New giant rat species, i threw in the personal experience to give the post some rat flavor.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapc...ref=newssearch

Oops. I missed your second post. Now I get it.

hekawi · September 8th, 2009, 03:45 PM

Sylvester's son: "Oh the shame of it! My own father frightened of a mouse"

Sylvester: "But son, it's a GIANT MOUSE!

castpolymer · September 8th, 2009, 03:48 PM

My wife and I had a pet rat for about 2 years ( they do not live much past that ). He was smart as a whip and quite affectionate.

jjkrause84 · September 8th, 2009, 03:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TeleBrew

"They will only die if you crush the skull."

Just like a zombie.

Let me repeat: "You can kill a zombie by removing the heart or by destroyign the brain"

Say it with me now!

There won't be a quiz but when it coems time to use this knowledge it will be during the test of your life!

castpolymer · September 8th, 2009, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jjkrause84

Let me repeat: "You can kill a zombie by removing the heart or by destroyign the brain"

Say it with me now!

There won't be a quiz but when it coems time to use this knowledge it will be during the test of your life!

Which zombie genre are you basing your zombie killing injuries on? It does make a big difference. Also, consider this thread now hijacked by zombies!

Paul in Colorado · September 8th, 2009, 04:54 PM

"I hear it comes in BOTTLES in your country!" -Hemlock Stones

bo · September 8th, 2009, 06:22 PM

I didn't see a picture of a new variety of rat. I saw a picture of a Giant Rainfore$t Ham$ter! The kids will love its cute antics.

Bob Arbogast · September 8th, 2009, 08:23 PM

Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't believe they exist.

beach bob · September 8th, 2009, 11:03 PM

Thanks for the laugh BobA!

TeleBrew · September 8th, 2009, 11:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jjkrause84

Let me repeat: "You can kill a zombie by removing the heart or by destroyign the brain"

Say it with me now!

There won't be a quiz but when it coems time to use this knowledge it will be during the test of your life!

The heart thing only works in British romantic comedies featuring zombies.

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garytelecastor Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 5,104 18 Photos	When I was a young lad I worked at a Grain Elevator shoveling grain out of box cars. We had more rats in that place than you can ever imagine. They lived in holes in the ground and during the night, if you went up on the lower roof of the elevator it looked like the ground was moving. When we had slack time we would form hunting teams of 4 and go out to kill them with clubs. They will only die if you crush the skull. Also, one night coming home from a gig at about 3 am we had been deluged with rain. I was driving up my street and I saw what I swear, had to be a beaver with a thin tail waddling up the gutter. I should have run it down, but it ended up going down a drain. I am shuddering thinking of these filthy creatures. At the grain elevator they had a fire at a former elevator up the tracks. All that remained was the foundation. The rats had claimed it as theirs. One time a cat tried to go down there and they killed it, then left it at the entrance to their hole to warn others. In the mornings we would go clean out Hopper cars and if you set your arm down on piece of cardboard sometimes it would move away. YUK!!!!! __________________ éí 'aaníígÓÓ 'áhoot'é What in the world do I know???? Redd Volkaert is a Jedi Knight at one with the Force!!!

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stephent2 Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Atlanta, GA. Posts: 3,407 20 Photos	Love me some Fawlty Towers, forgot to post the news article about the new giant rat discovery,.. would made a bit more sense. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapc...pua/index.html

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mjb1967 Tele-Meister Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: orlando florida Age: 42 Posts: 331 7 Photos	I saw a few about half that size when I lived in North Springs/ Dunwoody/ Atlanta, on the river....they would dumpster dive if you left the lid off the bin at work...kinda scary creatures __________________ 1985 "Hot Rod" Chandler Telecaster Fender Warmoth Strat 1990 Gibson Les Paul Studio Lite Hot Rod Deluxe

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mr natural Tele-Holic Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA. Neither Albany nor Oak Park Age: 43 Posts: 902 4 Photos	I saw a river rat one time, dragging a plastic shopping bag full of garbage down the street with it's mouth. It'd make it a few feet, lose its grip, circle round and get another grip and continue on another few feet. Must've been something good in that bag. A friend of mine was a night watchman in a huge abandoned steel mill. Nobody around for miles. He had a .22 with a maglight duct taped to the stock. He said that there were way more rats than he had bullets most nights. -Mr. Natural __________________ Ahhh. I see... you are... a sailor.

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stephent2 Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Atlanta, GA. Posts: 3,407 20 Photos	there's a lot of construction around the place i play on Sunday nights plus it backs up to the Atlanta railroad yards,.... One monday morning I come out to start my car and the dash info read out thingy reports my windshield washer don't work and I know this shouldn't be the case so I pop the hood to find the wires,.. chewed in half. And there's a big round hole in the insulated hood pad and pieces of insulation around the engine and it occurs to me I have a rat in my car. I grab the hose and soak the hood pad through the hole and all around the engine compartment. Then I drove to the garage I deal with, guys I've known for a long time,.. we look around, fix the wire and figure the rat is gone. I drive back home, shut off the car, pop the hood and I see THE RAT scurrying along the steering rack. Geez. A hitchhiking, thrill seeking Atlanta rat. I really couldn't believe it, disgusting. The rodent had been hold up in the engine bay at least 50 miles. So the fix,.. moth balls. Moth balls in a nylon stocking hung in the engine compartment. I sold the car a month later.

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