Matt 160 Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 A couple of months ago, I had a meeting at a motorway service station. After the meeting, I was sat in the car in the car park, listening to my phone messages, when I looked around and saw this: I sat there for 20 minutes, watching a family of rats pop in and out of a litter bin, just two feet away from me. All the time this was going on, people where carrying on walking past! Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 Not much surprises me any more, Matt. Just the other night, on another forum, some woman stuck up shots of a couple of birds in her garden and a picture of a buck rat on the table beside her window, in broad daylight. She said it was Delightfull and called it " Rattatoulli ". Obviously, I marked her card as to the inherrent risk to human health and warned that there'd be a thriving colony close by. She came back, hand bag swinging, to scream about how there was indeed a Very thriving colony of rats at the end of her garden. " Living in harmony " with her and the other " Most dangerous creatures on earth - Homo sapiens. " Went on to compare them to the " Unnatural Killers " now present within her shores: Dogs and cats. So on and so forth. Ye get the picture. Upper middle class. Upper middle age. Lower f*cking awareness than an ice cube. I simply asked her to please curb the personal slant of her attack and got on with my life. She replied almost instantly. I wouldn't know what she was screaming about in the next one. Never bothered to open it and never will. Like a sceptic tank; Ye Know what's going to be in there. Why bother? Walk away. Her grandchildren at risk. Not me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jasper65 6 Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 Looks like a fine specimen ! heard a simular story from the nephew who had seen one late one evening near one of the bins of a well known take away burger resturant ..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ryedaleratter 0 Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 Not much surprises me any more, Matt. Just the other night, on another forum, some woman stuck up shots of a couple of birds in her garden and a picture of a buck rat on the table beside her window, in broad daylight. She said it was Delightfull and called it " Rattatoulli ". Obviously, I marked her card as to the inherrent risk to human health and warned that there'd be a thriving colony close by. She came back, hand bag swinging, to scream about how there was indeed a Very thriving colony of rats at the end of her garden. " Living in harmony " with her and the other " Most dangerous creatures on earth - Homo sapiens. " Went on to compare them to the " Unnatural Killers " now present within her shores: Dogs and cats. So on and so forth. Ye get the picture. Upper middle class. Upper middle age. Lower f*cking awareness than an ice cube. I simply asked her to please curb the personal slant of her attack and got on with my life. She replied almost instantly. I wouldn't know what she was screaming about in the next one. Never bothered to open it and never will. Like a sceptic tank; Ye Know what's going to be in there. Why bother? Walk away. Her grandchildren at risk. Not me. I wonder if she thinks they are so great when one of them catches Wiels Disease ! Some people, it makes you wonder.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Matt 160 Posted March 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 I think that what surprises (and annoys) me the most is the fact that this is a very busy service station. I do not understand why the authorities are allowing this situation to go on. I wonder if they would have taken enforcement action if it had been a small trader? There was no sign of any bait stations nearby, and the shrubbery had not been cut back to allow access to burrow bait. Whoever the pest control contractor is should be ashamed. I helped a client recently who was fighting a request from the EHO for a voluntary closure. The EHO had been onto site, and found a (one) mouse dropping under a fridge which had been pulled out. There had been an infestation in the past, but the client had co-operated with us, and followed our recommendations to the letter, and the infestation had been controlled. The EHO was extremely lucky to find that mouse dropping (after looking for over an hour), but wouldn't let it drop. I soon straightened her out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonesy 111 Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 Done a job years ago a woman lived in an old gate house of a big estate,she had rats all over,she said she enjoyed feeding and watching them but wasnt to pleased when they started to come in the house. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AIRGUNNER 1 Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 Fished down on a lake near Barnstable and the f*****g rats there no word of a lie were swimming in front of me only 2 feet out blagging the bread i was puttting out i wasnt half temted on using the blackwidow. Ive got a video i took of one of the rats on land again within 2ft of me in the Wildlife Photography & Discussion section on this site. Soon got permission on that lake to lower the levels. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stabs 3 Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 There's tons of rats at the Maidstone services on the M20. I used to see them all the time when I was waiting for me mates Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,975 Posted March 12, 2008 Report Share Posted March 12, 2008 Weils Disease??? Bubonic Plague anyone? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Matt 160 Posted March 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2008 Weils Disease??? Bubonic Plague anyone? With relish sir? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,975 Posted March 12, 2008 Report Share Posted March 12, 2008 Wages in pest control are generally on the lower end of the scale... I wonder how long it will take for a rodent epidemic to shift that? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lurchergrrl 1,441 Posted March 12, 2008 Report Share Posted March 12, 2008 Shortly after I moved to England, I found myself alone and pregnant in a pokey terrace house, located in a less than savory neighbourhood. I knew nobody. I had very little - if any - experience with rats (other than those I had kept as pets when I was a kid). I lay in bed one night wondering what on earth could be pounding round up in the loft at all hours. Sounded like a heard of fookin elephants. Spoke to a neighbour about it, just curious as to maybe it being cats up there I was so naive. Her hubby soon came round, poked his head up the loft, proclaimed I had rats, "Some biguns", and laid bait. Over the next week I was convinced I could hear them dying up there. Needless to say I didn't sleep well and soon arranged to move. If I saw a bloody big rat sat on my window, or anywhere else in my vicinity for that matter, I'd be on here posting for someone to come along and sort it out. Ditch, you've got such a way with words! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BlueCoyote 0 Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 Weils Disease??? Bubonic Plague anyone? its called thinning the herd.... stupid enough to allow them to come and go as they please then they get whats deserved... still i feel sorry for the grandkids involved.. or any kid for that matter. they dont deserve to suffer because the adults are freakin stupid Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bosun11 537 Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 Quite a few of the drive through McD's in this city are crawling..... whilst getting late night walks in with the lurchers its not uncommon to see 5's an 6's happily scampering round the car parks. Them ornimental, false, sterile shrubbery's they plant round 'em are alive. Our local Costco's car park plantation (same designer, me thinks!) is also a haven. Got some local youthfull terrier lads on to 'em and results were good Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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