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Iran deploys sniper teams in Tehran to battle 'mutant' rats
2013-03-05
Posted by:Skidmark

#11  Dunno Joe, sounds more like Spiderman to me.

Ratman!!! Steals in the night!!! perfect gig for Obama.
Posted by: Alanc   2013-03-05 19:55  

#10  Mutant Rats wid Green-colored, Nuclear/Radiaoactive hearts like "Iron Man".

Wonder iff Hollyweird could make an "Iron Man" movie, sequel or prequel, wid such???

MOVIE TRAILER = "THEY'RE HERE, THEY'RE UNSTOPPABLE, THEY'RE IRON/STEEL RATS"!

They want your Cheese + they want it NOW!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-03-05 19:02  

#9  Tennis racquet? And who got hurt, Skidmark? Because it does't sound like your rat was more than annoyed...
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-03-05 17:12  

#8  It's all fun until somebody gets hurt.
I remember hearing one walking down my counter taking off canister lids, late one night. I had setup a rat trap with cheese and peanut butter(no bacon!) next in the row. It set off the trap with a 'BANG' like something with leaf springs from a truck. I pulled on my boots and robe and ran to the kitchen. There he was, walking around trying to shake off the trap that had neatly closed on his neck.
Posted by: Skidmark   2013-03-05 17:08  

#7  One day in a restaurant I worked at, there came a minor panic when a gentleman walked through the dining room and kitchen carrying a rifle (later determined to be of the pellet variety) and a tennis racquet. Turned out he was the rat exterminator.
Posted by: Dopey Sinatra9196   2013-03-05 17:02  

#6  So there I wuz, 15 years old in the Publix warehouse with nothing but a pellet rifle and a flashlight....... It was ever an uneven fight, 1 man 50 sets of beadie damn eyes looking at me with contempt. Suddenly a deux ex dawg appeared in the form of 3 rat terriers. Brutal, ugly. I can say no more.
Posted by: Shipman   2013-03-05 16:18  

#5  Mountain lions, perhaps?

Apt quotation, Eric. One of my favourite films ever!
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-03-05 14:59  

#4  Well the problem is if those rats start showing up elsewhere. They could displace the standard rats and increase the possibility of rat born diseases like the black plague. I could see them enrolling in Harvard law. That's all we need more Islamic lawyers. I suppose they could start breeding larger cats or ferrets.
Posted by: Ebbineting Slusoting5054   2013-03-05 13:07  

#3  Find the Lord of the Rats! That will end it.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-03-05 08:09  

#2  Can they recite the Koran, yell Allahu Akbar?
Posted by: Grunter   2013-03-05 08:06  

#1  Buttercup: Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.'s?
Westley: Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2013-03-05 07:19  

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