Giant rat

**nivek** · 10-10-2011, 07:13 AM

'Giant rat' stabbed to death by housing worker in New York

A "giant rat" terrorising residents of a New York housing project has been stabbed to death by a man armed with a pitch fork.

Housing worker Jose Rivera impaled the huge rodent this month when he was filling rat holes at the Marcy Houses complex in Brooklyn. He said it was one of three that came running out of the hole.

"I hit it one time and it was still moving," Mr Rivera told the New York Daily News.

"I hit it another time and that's when it died — I'm not scared of rats but I was scared of being bitten."

Marcy Houses Tenant Association head Naomi Colon told the newspaper there had been reported sightings of the giant rat for at least six years, while other residents said cats living there feared it.

"They get together and gang up on the cats," resident Stephanie Davis told the Daily News.

Animal experts have identified the monster rodent as a Gambian pouched rat, which is a fairly common pet rat.

They are nocturnal, can grow to three feet and weigh four pounds or more and live seven or eight years, the New York Daily News reports.

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

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 rats.

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**Coroner** · 10-10-2011, 07:15 AM

lol - i bet he pooped himself

**KellyD** · 10-10-2011, 07:19 AM

hey.....that looks like my cat........lol

**bart5050** · 10-10-2011, 08:35 AM

Now there are hybreds out there in the New York sewers.
In a few years they will mutate into really big ones.

When dogs start dissapearing, we know it will only be a matter of time.
Everyone will have to abandon New York to the rats, and a new rat nation will arise.
When they start releasing their own films and commercials, we will have to give them rights.

**Castle-Bravo354** · 10-10-2011, 09:06 AM

nivek.....great find...

That one is pretty big.

**Coroner** · 10-10-2011, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by bart5050

Now there are hybreds out there in the New York sewers.
In a few years they will mutate into really big ones.

When dogs start dissapearing, we know it will only be a matter of time.
Everyone will have to abandon New York to the rats, and a new rat nation will arise.
When they start releasing their own films and commercials, we will have to give them rights.

lol - with lame demos outside city hall - RATS to RATS!

**sagewillow** · 10-10-2011, 11:28 AM

We have our own version down here in Louisiana. Here, some folks eat them. Yumm. haha.

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**SactoLady** · 10-10-2011, 11:29 AM

Poor Rat, yeah, I know, its a rat, and wild, but I used to have rats. Never one that large. Too bad it couldn't have been caught alive. If they could have bred it, get giant rats domesticated and sell them they might have made some money. I'm sure there is a market out there for them.

**Zog** · 10-10-2011, 11:36 AM

Yep!, that's one big rat, kudos to that guy who finally got it!, "now where's the other two hiding?"

**KellyD** · 10-10-2011, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by SactoLady

Poor Rat, yeah, I know, its a rat, and wild, but I used to have rats. Never one that large. Too bad it couldn't have been caught alive. If they could have bred it, get giant rats domesticated and sell them they might have made some money. I'm sure there is a market out there for them.

i would buy one.....