NYC Rat Catches Pigeon..

[GP100]

Those of you reading my book, will remember me telling you about the rats us kids lived with in the sewers.. Some of them were as big as house cats.

Well, to give you an idea of how aggressive these things can be, here's a video of a small rat catching a pigeon on a New York City Street..

and like I said, he's a little one.. Now imagine what a huge one can do to a small kid..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A2aDDkFk94

 

[loaded round]

...and in NYC that rat votes!

 

[caryc]

Yeah, nature taking it's course but I suppose those jerks laughing at it were typical New Yorkers. Personally, I didn't find anything funny about it. Didn't even watch till the end.

No wonder they don't want those people to have guns.

 

[toysoldier]

I think it was Mythbusters that looked into the stories of oversized rats in NYC. They concluded that New Yorkers didn't know the difference between rats and possums.

 

[sfhogman]

Agree with Cary on that one...

Jeff

 

[gramps]

I was rooting for the pigeon! As was said, they are both pest species! I have also read somewhere that anywhere you stand in NY your are 30 feet from a rat!
gramps

 

[contender]

Predator & prey. And yes,,, larger rats can & do hurt people.

 

[Armybrat]

Ain't nuthin' compared to those Washington DC rats.

 

[loaded round]

Amen!

Ain't nuthin' compared to those Washington DC rats.

 

[PAShooter]

We use homing pigeons to train young pointing dogs, this keeps the price of training birds down because the homers are reusable and unharmed. However, rats are our biggest predator problem as they kill perched and nesting birds. This is a constant battle: rat vs man. We carefully use poisons but rats are very smart and usually avoid. By the way, we refer to those NY style pigeons as "feathered rats".

 

[contender]

PAShooter,,, I may be able to help a bit in reducing your rat issues. PM me. I do animal damage control.

 

[GP100]

...and in NYC that rat votes!

In NYC that rat would probably "get" the vote..

 

[kramden]

Lots of "rats" in NY.

 

[vito]

I grew up in Brooklyn, NY during the late '40's through the '50's, and vividly recall when the "avenue" a few hundred feet from where I lived was torn up for new water or sewer lines (or maybe both) in the early 1950's. The construction effort, which lasted about a year, drove out the rats from underground. Some of them were literally the size of adult cats. The feral cats, and dogs, killed quite a few of these rats, but it also was not unknown to see a torn apart cat carcass laying in the street. We all knew enough to stay away from the live ones, but some stupid kids weren't smart enough to not pick up the dead ones by their tail and carry them around the neighborhood. My Mom would not let us kids stay out after dark, in part out of fear that we would be attacked by these big rats. I begged for a BB gun, so that I could "defend" myself from the rats but they were outlawed in NYC (even in those days) and my parents wouldn't get me one.

 

[caryc]

Someone please show me a picture of one of those rats the size of an adult cat.

 

[GP100]

Someone please show me a picture of one of those rats the size of an adult cat.

Here you go Cary.. This one was found in a subway tunnel in Downtown Manhattan..

 

[gramps]

GP-100, makes ya wonder what they taste like? That is one big RAT!
gramps

 

[redhawker]

Interesting. A flying rat vs. a regular rat.

 

[caryc]

Someone please show me a picture of one of those rats the size of an adult cat.

Here you go Cary.. This one was found in a subway tunnel in Downtown Manhattan..

Don't believe it for one minute. I've seen pictures of dead "bigfoot" also.

 

[rimmer]

That's just sick chasing real sick. Can't you find some better videos? I think ima gona puke!

 

[GP100]

[/quote]

Don't believe it for one minute. I've seen pictures of dead "bigfoot" also.[/quote]

Cary, you don't have to believe it.. Even Vito said he grew up in NY and has seen it first hand.. There are plenty of video's online of these things on the internet.. And plenty of eyewitnesses to it.. And more than enough pictures to prove that me and Vito are telling it like it is..

Here's a news story on it..

http://abc7ny.com/news/rats-the-size-of-cats-some-in-mount-vernon-say-mayor-is-to-blame-/1338130/

 

[GP100]

GP-100, makes ya wonder what they taste like? That is one big RAT!
gramps

Yeah.. They can get that big in the sewers of New York City.. There is nothing to challenge their numbers. So they pretty much have no predators out there.. Left alone, they can get very big as the picture shows.. And they are nasty as hell.. Very aggressive.. They will attack with no second thoughts about it..

People always say there are Alligators in the sewer system.. But that's just a myth.. Urban legend.. No truth to it at all.. But there is nothing like a NYC rat..

Knowing that Contender works with these animals, I'm sure he can testify to the fact that they can get this big if left unchecked.. I've seen these things get this big when I was a homeless kid living in the sewers..

There is nothing scarier to a 11-12 year old kid, then seeing those red eyes coming at you in the dark, and hearing the scamper of those little feet.. :shock:

And when they bite, the others can smell the blood.. And they all swarm on you.. People say that Pit Bulls are aggressive dogs.. But they have nothing on a New York City Rat.. Pit Bulls are kind and gentle by comparison..

as I said in the early chapters of my book.. It's a bloody miracle any of us kids survived down there.. Some didn't..

There's a video of a NYC rat about that big, fighting a full grown house cat on YouTube.. And it killed the cat.. It is nothing to these rats to kill a medium sized dog..

As to what they taste like? I wouldn't even venture a guess.. I don't even want to think about that one.. Although I hear tell that in some countries they do eat rodents like that.. But in NYC, the rodents eat you. :shock:

 

[Colonel Daddy]

No disrespect to you, GP100, but looks like another reason for me NOT to go to NYC! :shock:

 

[GP100]

No disrespect to you, GP100, but looks like another reason for me NOT to go to NYC! :shock:

No disrespect taken Sir.. I don't blame you one bit.. I left NY a long time ago, and never thought of ever going back.. You couldn't pay me enough to even visit there. Too many bad memories from childhood..

 

[Taterman]

I was rooting for the pigeon! As was said, they are both pest species! I have also read somewhere that anywhere you stand in NY your are 30 feet from a rat!
gramps

Me too. If I was there, I would have been tempted to stomp on that rat.

 

[Taterman]

Cary, you don't have to believe it.. Even Vito said he grew up in NY and has seen it first hand.. There are plenty of video's online of these things on the internet.. And plenty of eyewitnesses to it.. And more than enough pictures to prove that me and Vito are telling it like it is..

Here's a news story on it..

http://abc7ny.com/news/rats-the-size-of-cats-some-in-mount-vernon-say-mayor-is-to-blame-/1338130/

I've seen them that size in the tunnels under Ohare airport.

 

[vito]

Yes, I grew up in NYC and saw some awfully big rats, but none like the one in the picture. I'm not sure but this might be a case of someone really good with Photoshop. I am one of the lucky ones that was forced to leave NY over 50 years ago. Like most born and raised in NYC, I could not even imagine living anywhere else. Then my active duty orders arrived, and as a new 2nd Lieutenant I was off to Texas for my 2 years of obligated service. That became 24 years of voluntary service, and when I retired from the military the last place I would have considered going to was back to NYC. My wife still loves to go back for visits, but my wish is to never return there, even for a visit. Its not just the rats, its the cost, the filth, the crowds and most of all, the reality that I am not a citizen in NY but a subject of the high and mighty Democrat bosses that have taken away the 2nd Amendment rights of everyone in their jurisdiction. When I can legally carry concealed while in NYC I would consider visiting again, and thus be able to defend myself against the rats, both of four and two legged varieties.

 

[Conservative]

Most big cities and a lot of the smaller ones are to be avoided.

When humans group into large masses, bad things happen on a regular basis.

For reasons beyond my understanding, they herd together.

Me, the fewer people nearby the better.

 

[Paul B]

Most big cities and a lot of the smaller ones are to be avoided.

When humans group into large masses, bad things happen on a regular basis.

For reasons beyond my understanding, they herd together.

Me, the fewer people nearby the better.

Google up The Rat Syndrome from Scientific American. Interesting article from the early 60's. Just might make understanding what you posted easier.
Paul B.