Allegedly, while a man was posting stakes for his new lawn in a rural community north of New York City, a giant rat jumped from the ground attacking the man while being caught on camera. The rat was of irish origin and is appeared to have migrated with many more rodents to the New York City-Boston area from ships leaving port in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Some predict the rats to be migrating West across America. What are your opinions? (Click the above jpeg for image? And if you're interested in the irish rat problem at the current time? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4487526.stm
2007-02-09 12:47:51 · 16 answers · asked by Karrissa 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Or try this image?
http://www.apopo.org/hires/reward2.JPG
2007-02-09 12:49:24 · update #1
People, do your research...........
This is a Gambian Pouched Rat being trained to sniff out abandoned land mines in war-torn areas of the world.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?search=Gambian+puched+rats+sniffing+out+land+mines&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&ico-yahoo-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAscYqL80.x8jy71l3_Mj6BgazKIX%2FSIG%3D111gjvvgj%2F*-http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch&ico-wikipedia-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAsuRZXHyX3jz_HHQlFel4xgazKIX%2FSIG%3D11ia1qo58%2F**http%253a%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%253aSearch&p=Gambian+puched+rats+sniffing+out+land+mines
What you read is just paranoia propaganda.
Sandra Beasley and the Spaz Rats
(Rattery, Rescue, and Rat-care Expert)
http://spazrats.tripod.com
2007-02-12 19:52:19 · answer #1 · answered by spazrats 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. And that story is nearly 2 years old. The reporter couldn't spell worth a hoot so I suspect it was made up to begin with. There is no mention of it on any of the search engines. The photo shows someone feeding one - and is that a harness on the so-called killer rat? In the USA, we call them pets. Another farce.
2016-05-24 19:01:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cool.
We've kind of got that problem now with the urban raccoons. I feed the ones in my garage, just to keep them from eating the cats.
2007-02-09 12:52:38 · answer #3 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That's a wallaby, not a rat.
Is there some reason you posted this five times?
2007-02-10 13:50:25 · answer #4 · answered by dukefenton 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not worried about any rat's. If this were true, why aren't the rat's attacking people to this day. It's myth
2007-02-09 12:52:09 · answer #5 · answered by Zoe 3 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I think it's so funny you posted this question under the immigration category.
2007-02-09 13:57:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why is your question under immigration.
Never mind, its good place for your question.
2007-02-10 12:52:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Or worse, there could be Irish immigrants on those boats!
2007-02-09 12:54:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Just one more reason we should have the right to bare arms
2007-02-09 13:13:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
eeeww. that's gross..
that rat in that picture looked like my half chihuahua/half fox terrior! cute.. but not really! hahahaha..
2007-02-09 12:51:52 · answer #10 · answered by mommy.luv.jordyn 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋