Sounds like an episode of Fringe. What would Walter make of it all? (Does anyone else watch that show? The Pippin reference last week was the absolute best!)
I live in Cambridge and the rat problem is for realz. (When my husband called someone with the city because a rat was stuck in our garbage, this woman came and extricated the thing and ... let if free for some legal reason. I'm even a vegetarian, but I thought she should have killed it dead.) But I had no idea the rat parade had spread all the way up Western to Harvard. Makes my day, kinda.
@ginger rant: I tend to overfocus on details. How did a rat get "stuck" in your garbage? I didn't think a rat could get stuck anywhere. I'm not doubting you, just curious.
@Tart of Darkness: Totally fair question; I was deliberately short-handing the story above for fear of being windy. But since you asked ...
My husband was throwing out one of those wrought-iron lawn chairs, and the rat's foot got caught at the intersection of a chair leg and one of the support bars. I think. I was cowering in the kitchen the whole time, saying an atheist's prayer that the rat wouldn't eat his leg off (as I hear they sometimes do) and escape (so sure was I that the city would come and destroy him/her, thereby reducing the city's rat problem by one), so this is entirely secondhand. Glad you asked? I thought so!
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Close. I believe the .22 is the missile of choice for rats.
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My husband was throwing out one of those wrought-iron lawn chairs, and the rat's foot got caught at the intersection of a chair leg and one of the support bars. I think. I was cowering in the kitchen the whole time, saying an atheist's prayer that the rat wouldn't eat his leg off (as I hear they sometimes do) and escape (so sure was I that the city would come and destroy him/her, thereby reducing the city's rat problem by one), so this is entirely secondhand. Glad you asked? I thought so!
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It's a shame they just let him go. They should have sent him to a re-education camp instead.
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(This joke was brought to you by the year 2007.)
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